Last year, we mentioned the Stenfest Musical Festival after being tipped off by Claire whose daughter was in same class as mine (see more here). She ended up going with her family and said she really liked it. Her feedback was that it was very low key with only about 250 people with lots...
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Finally booked tickets for Sunday Night of Meadowlands Festival. Really looking forward to seeing the Penguin Cafe Orchestra again, their gig at Brighton Dome earlier this year was a rare treat and I’m already humming Perpetuum Mobile. This will be our first camping trip this year and there ere will be six of us,...
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I thought I’d have a go a building a retaining wall in our new garden and managed to dig around 20 cubic metres of soil to create a trench. However, having struggled to get the cement mixture through the house and over a 1000 kilos of ballast and cement my back needed some help....
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Seek and thou shalt find, and so it seems as there I was at Stoneywish Nature Reserve on Saturday for my son’s birthday and one of our guests was also camping in the adjacent field with her family as part of the local Steiner School trip, and lo and beyond it was the first...
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Yesterday, was a little too full on what with my son’s 4th birthday bash at Stoneywish Nature Reserve, the discovery of my first pop-up camping tribe nearby, an hour long dog walk along the Hollingbury Woods Trail before a five hour drive down to Devon. So I’m very glad to be looking out the...
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Claire is the Balfour Mum advisor that’s been keeping me up to speed on the local festival scene. Think I must have been going a bit deaf because I thought she said the festival was called Stenwood, and I have been searching high and low for it. It’s actually called Stenfest is only just...
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Following a meeting at which Justin and I discussed the idea of short-term camping sites, we went away decided to do something about this delicious concept. I was tasked with outlining what this ‘pop-up camping’ might be while Justin will follow up with attempts to find out more about the technicalities, the laws (this...
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I’ve been wondering about what kind of facilities might be required for a Pop-up campsite, and toilets seemed pretty essential; so I contacted the Thunderbox Collective in Devon about their composting loos. It turns out that they got a lot of enquiries from people setting up small ( or even larger ) scale campsites...
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Ivan has introduced me to Dan Thompson of the Empty Shops Network, as there are parallels between his ‘pop-up shops’ movement are our ‘pop-up camping’ idea. He’s also produced a great toolkit, which is something we want to emulate. Anyway, I’m hoping to catch-up with Dan along the coast in Worthing after my camping...
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Didn’t manage to post anything yesterday as I was, and still am, totally blissed out from the reflexology and Indian head massage sessions I had at the Stoneywish Nature Reserve Fun Day, after they assured me that I wouldn’t go back in time if I had both. Apart from the ‘vibration’ therapies it was...
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