The summer’s gone…
Today's my first proper day back at my desk in Terra Infirma Towers for almost 3 weeks, although as any business owner will tell you,...
Greetings from the Costa del Solway
Half term holidays and our family has decamped to the Scottish shore of the Solway Firth. We’ve been here before (one village along) and it...
Eco-whiskey in Wooler
It was my birthday on Good Friday and on Easter Sunday we took in a walk taking in the site of Ad Gefrin in North...
Brum, Brum, Brum
So, my first day back after a far-too relaxing fortnight's summer holiday. For the first week, we hired a narrowboat and explored a loop of...
Sustainability musings from the West Coast of Scotland
I'm busy wading through a wall of e-mails following a wonderfully relaxing half-term holiday on the Craignish peninsula. Our rented old farmhouse overlooked an overlapping...
A couple of weeks in the Yorkshire Dales
I'm back at Terra Infirma Towers after a two week family holiday in Wensleydale, Yorkshire, staying in a stone ex-farmhouse near Hawes just 75 miles...
What does ‘natural’ mean anyway?
I love a bit of serendipity. I hadn't really been paying attention when Mrs K suggested a few days camping in Norfolk to kick off...
Experience is the deepest learning
I'm just back from our annual family half-term camping trip to Wooler in Northumberland. Every year for the last five years we've stayed at the...
An Important Sustainability Lesson from the Netherlands
On Thursday, the eldest child and I set off on our bikes to Amsterdam – Harry had won the ferry tickets in a prize draw...
A day at the Zoo
To break up the monotony (as if) of rock pooling for the kids in our lovely coastal holiday location, we took them to Edinburgh Zoo...