While my adult children are home over the summer, they've been perhaps inadvertently expanding my viewing selections. So I've apparently...

I started this blog 6 months ago to see if I could manage to earn my Writer badge in the Rebel Badge Club. I wasn't at all sure I'd be...

I freely admit that I'm a badge fiend - I like having badges on my camp blanket as a reminder of places I've been and things I've done....

I definitely wouldn't describe myself as an outdoorsy person, but do enjoy time spent either walking, or paddling on canals and rivers....

Tove Jansson has long been an iconic author to me. I grew up with Moominvalley and its various inhabitants as near neighbours in my...

My general tendency is to take macro shots of flowers and insects, sometimes pictures of birds in flight, and occasional action shots of...

It's many years since I last watched Ghost, but as my daughter is working her way through a list of films she wants to watch, this was...

I have been practicing my Swedish somewhat sporadically through much of my adult life, but over the past 15 years or so have worked...

My daughter has recently set out a (long) list of films she wants to watch, and some are on my list, so that's encouraged me to make a...

I don't know about anyone else, but to me 'rebellion' has quite negative connotations. We talk about rebellious children, refusing to...

Ever since I was small, I've known of the Sami people in Sweden; I have a dim memory of visiting 'Lappstaden', the Sami village in...

Some of you may know the old song When the weather is fine Then you know it's a sign To go messing about on the river It's a fun song,...

I was introduced to Geocaching around ten years ago now, when my children were still fairly young. We enjoyed it as a nice way of adding...

I read the review on the BMJ blog as I thought it would be interesting to get a ’medical’ perspective on the book. Overall I wasn’t...

As I was looking at some of the 'Self-Aware Rebel' badges, the tagline for My Powers caught my eye: Be true to yourself. Anyone who has...

Somehow it has taken me until this year to realise just how important it is for me to have routines in my life, but this understanding...

Having been put off camping by the one guide camp I attended in my youth (sorry!), I was eventually persuaded to try it again once our...

Having admitted my failure to look after my indoor plants as well as I should (and indeed to keep my little chilli alive!), I decided it...

I happily admit that although I enjoy gardens and having a nice outdoor space, I'm really not a keen gardener at all. I do like indoor...

Continuing the Detective badge (not one I'd originally thought I as likely to do!), I've read up about blood pattern analysis, blood...