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Ramblers Organisation: Top Tips for Fun Family Walking.

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Ramblers Top Tips for Fun Family Walking https://www.ramblers.org.uk/technical-pages/searchresults.aspx?keywords=family+walks provides numerous locations for family walks.   Make it an adventure: Don’t suggest ‘going for a walk’, make it an outing or adventure to somewhere like a park, a playground, woods or a pond. You could treat them to a picnic or take something to eat and drink along […]

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Picnics – Don’t be a picnic panic-er. Suggestions of what to make.

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Don’t be a picnic-panic-er. I was deeply intimidated by other picnic-era when I was preparing our picnic for sports day, planning it out and rising early to produce the proverbial,  “feast“. I learnt from the veterans how simple and effective hot dogs are at keeping hungry children happy. (One Mum, ‘just-throw-money-at-it (JTMAI),  brought take-away from

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Mountain Biking – Sign Posts

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Mountain Bike Trials and Events www.moredirt.com offers information from Plymouth to Ipswich to Birmingham, Manchester to Newcastle Upon Tyne about mountain bike and skate boarding venues. www.b1ke.com operates several parks in the SOUTH for example Tidworth and Longleat. For UK wide routes try: https://www.komoot.com/plan Sustrans enter “mountains” in search. https://www.sustrans.org.uk/search?searchTerm=mountains “Whether you are a seasoned

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Play School for Grown Ups – Suggestions if you have small experience of small people

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You’ve agreed to look after young children. Godparent? Aunt? Cousin? Neighbour? Topping up student coffers? ‘Win-win’ you use the house in an idyllic location in exchange for  child care? One way or another you find yourself with small people with small experience of said small people. Panic not, well maybe a little. House-Keeping Remember children

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Hold All – One for all, and All for One

Beach Walks, Biking, Camping, Canoe, Dens, Dinghy, Forest Walks, Travel, Walking, Walking essentials, Water, Where and how /

Grab Bag On our boat we have a grab bag from which nothing can be taken – not a sneaky chocolate bar or battery. If we have to abandon the boat, this bag is literally a life saver. Along this line of thinking comes the All-for-One (and One for All bag). All for One, and One

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Walkies in the Movies – Walks where films were made.

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Where is your local walk which was in a film? Or your holiday walk where a film was made? Have you googled  – ‘films in ….’.  Numerous choices come up. Holiday cottage sites thrive on how close they are locations. Local to me: Wilton House, Wilton near Salisbury. https://www.wiltonhouse.co.uk/visitor-information/ The Crown,  Bridgerton, Johnny English Reborn,

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Organising a group camping trip. How to start? What to take? Where to go.Games

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  Fifteen years ago a dinghy sailing and camping group started with three families who were members of the same yacht club.  It met every two years in the Lake District. It is now forty families. It was over a camp fire as the wine boxes and whisky did the rounds that the first glimmering

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Keeping it “Reel” Planning ways to stop a day unravelling.

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If we have a ‘big day’  we know it is best to plan in advance. And so with outings for children. On a boat we have a ‘grab bag’ with all the essentials should you need to abandon ‘ship’. It is left intact, no sneaking of batteries or plasters  or water. I know at the

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