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Dear Ordnance Survey – Thank You
Firstly thank you for the maps, all of them, they get us and our youngsters safely from A to B, they give us ‘treasure hunts’ to enjoy and they have really lovely pictures of blue ducks on them. We are...
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Walk Scilly 2017
It’s that time of year. You know the time? The weather is rubbish, Christmas festivities are long over and the summer holidays seem like a lifetime away. The Two Blondes, despite exciting new...
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Wild Camping on Dartmoor – A Blonde Podcast
Podcast is a good word isn’t it. According to the Guardian in 2004 (that bastion of wordliness) these little audio broadcasts could have so easily ended up being called audioblogs or guerillamedia....
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A treasure trove of kit
You will have noticed by now that there are many things to recommend my new school, Trinity. I’m settling in really well and enjoying the renewed enthusiasm for my subject, and very much enjoying...
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Snot in Scotland
If you are easily offended or have a weak constitution do not enter. Turn back now! Why is there so much snot when you’re climbing a hill?! It’s not that you necessarily have a cold or are recovering...
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Women’s Lowa Renegade Boots
I do think it is fortuitous when a parcel of gear for you to review arrives in the post just as you are about to embark on exactly the right expedition in which to test it. This is exactly what...
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Technology and gadgetry
Blonde Two is normally in charge of all things technology or gadgetry. She understands it all so much better than me and often has to help me to sort things out. I don’t mind not knowing about it and...
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Dartmoor on a school night
As you may have gathered by now, we Blondes have embarked on new employment options. Blonde Two is successfully writing and I am teaching in a new school. There are many implications alongside this...
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Hisley Wood
Copyright Ordnance Survey 2017 Little Miss Blonde and I recently ventured to somewhere new to investigate a little bridge that looks nondescript on the map but is in actual fact really interesting....
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Take the Tarp – Just Because We Can
I have never met anyone who is as keen on outdoor kit as my middle offspring Six-Foot-Blonde… except maybe his father… or maybe his mother… Which means that whenever Mr B2 and I go to visit him we have...
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B2’s Off Travelling For a While…
There comes a time in the life of any Blonde when she needs to fulfil the urge to go off exploring. Mum says that as soon as I could crawl I was off out of the door, on my way to see the big world....
View ArticleHalf a Dartmoor Platitude
When I first started helping with Ten Tors training way back in 2008, I remember going for a walk up over the Trowlesworthy Tors on the south side of Dartmoor and being very surprised by the distance...
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A Nosy Tick
I have to confess that as I sat and listened to Blonde One giving her ‘tick talk’ to our Bronze DofE youngsters earlier this month I did find myself thinking that the season was still too young for...
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Sigg Hot and Cold – Whatever the Weather!
Some outdoor products are iconic aren’t they and I have to say that for me Sigg bottles have always been an image that has formed in my mind when I am preparing for an expedition. The traditional Sigg...
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Discover OS Routes on OS Maps and Get Outside
Have you discovered OS Routes yet? If you haven’t then you really should give them a go. Imagine, for example, that you are going to visit Exmoor (lovely) and fancy a walk. Being a sensible walker you...
View ArticleDoes My Bum Look Cold in This?
I have recently been doing a bit of research for a forthcoming Blonde book. I am writing a chapter on walking kit and have reached the underwear section (here are some previous Blonde thoughts on this...
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Walk Like an Idiom
Have you ever noticed how many of our idioms include the word ‘walk’? A while ago now, I spent a happy afternoon sitting on Dartmoor and ‘collecting’ as many of these beauties as I could think of. Most...
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Gear Advice – What Safety Kit Do I Need for Walking?
The first thing to remember when you are packing your rucksack to go out walking is that the conditions and experience you are planning for (definitely do planning) might not be the ones you eventually...
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Off the Eaten Path
It is well documented that we Blondes like crisps. We even once suggested that Frazzles plus Scotch eggs made up the perfect camping equivalent to the full English breakfast. A bag of crisp-like snacks...
View ArticleWalking with Diabetes
If client confidentiality wasn’t so important, Blonde One and I could tell you a story or two about walking with youngsters with a variety of health issues. We always do our best to be as inclusive as...
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