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    Nights away from home - our preferred way to spend time in the outdoors is under canvas.
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    Clear Plastic Bottles – the Running Total

    65, 590 pieces of plastic litter picked up to date! We're aiming to pick up 100,000 plastic bottles, lids, cups, straws (and microplastics) from all around the globe - beaches, forests, road-sides, anywhere we find…
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    Children in Need Pop up cafe

    Blacks are sponsoring Children in Need this year and this is a charity that we regularly support and try to fundraise for. Therefore it made sense as Blacks family ambassadors that we don our Pudsey…
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    Rambling to raise awareness

    Last weekend (Saturday 14th and Sunday 15th October) were the official days for the BBC Countryfile Ramble for Children in Need – a charity event that encouraged us to get outside and walk in the…
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    Adventuring with Kids – 3 of 3 – Optimum time?

    Part of being a parent involves making sacrifices. Life changes after children and some people embrace it better than others. We weren't particularly adventurous before we had children but when the girls arrived we wanted…
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    Adventuring with Kids – 2 of 3 – Simplifying adventures

    Stealing Ideas We are avid magpies – stealing ideas from other adventurers and making them our own. All of us seek inspiration and we have many inspiring adventurers that we turn to for ideas, e.g.…
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    Adventuring with kids – 1 of 3 – the early years

    Adventure doesn't have to stop when you have kids. It might just have to be a little different!
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    9 & 10. Sailing and Windsurfing

    It was with excitement and anticipation that we parked-up by the side of an idyllically located sailing lake ready to sail, windsurf and of course, camp.
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    Pump up the Fun

    3, 2, 1 GO!! The crowd cheered as another group crossed the start line. We were amongst them, a family of 4, surrounded by men, women and children of all ages and sizes, dressed in…
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    8. Cycling

    Our latest basecamp family adventure was cycling in the forest. Road cycling has never appealed as much since we like to appreciate the environment and escape into nature plus there are no vehicles to content…
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    Five ways to make a weekend outdoorsy

    As a family that love to spend time in the outdoors we're always looking for places, new and old, to visit and activities to do. So on a recent trip to North Wales we went…
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    7. Gorge Walking

    Project BaseCamp, for us, is all about finding a balance between work and play (or family adventure time as we call it); looking for opportunities to get outside and enjoy the outdoors. This week we…
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