For our trip to Sweden, I came fully prepared with the latest in anti-pest technology. I had visited the camping store and discovered a wealth of insect control devices. Not only did I buy the standard highly concentrated Deet that will do God-knows-what to my unborn children, I also bought a bandana-sized cloth permeated [...]
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#48 Save Water
Posted in General, Outdoors, Personal Hygiene on Jul 24th, 2008
On my recent holiday in Sweden, we had no running water. My boyfriend’s family had forgotten to have the plumber connect the water in their summer house after the winter, and when we arrived the only plumber on the island was away on vacation.
My boyfriend and I were alone in a house [...]
#47 Calm Our Nerves
Posted in General, Outdoors, Spirituality on Jul 10th, 2008
The week before last I spent three nights camping alone, which is not something I have done very often. I told myself that if I got scared, I should just think about an acquaintance who recently served in the Israeli army. If he could survive eighteen months in the Golan Heights with Hezbollah shooting at [...]
The ponies in the New Forest, where I went camping last week, are very clever indeed. They have established their own fiefdom with unprecedented pony freedom and special rules for humans. About 3000 ponies roam freely throughout the forest. Their grazing maintains the heath and grasslands, and they also contribute to the local economy and [...]
I wonder why it is that I feel such a tremendous sense of wellbeing around trees. Last weekend we took trips to two wooded areas, Burnham Beeches and Cliveden, both in Buckinghamshire. Burnham Beeches is a 540-acre wood that was bought by the City of London in the nineteenth century to stop it from being [...]