As it’s tradition to go for a brisk, cold walk on Boxing Day and New Year’s Day, to blow the cobwebs away and walk off all the festive food, I thought I’d share some options for across the North East. All of these are North East walks, and well within a days driving distance. One or two of them ...
Like they always do the cafes and bakeries of the North East are delivering on the Christmas treats. Yes we all go for the usual mass produced chocolate oranges, Malteser reindeers, boxed mince pies, but you can’t beat freshly baked goods that are home made on the day. I’ve been gradually ...
Thankfully this year this post isn’t coinciding with the ‘Tier 4’ and lockdown news we got this time last year (yet…please no), and although things are a lot more normal this year, we still shouldn’t neglect our mental health and wellbeing just because we had it worse last year. Christmas can ...
It had been years since I’d been to Beamish, the open air museum near Stanley in County Durham, but I wanted to go when it was all done up for Christmas. We had booked for a couple of weeks ago but the storm meant we had to rearrange, so I went yesterday instead for a walk around Christmas at ...
Last year Christmas was all about the small things, like being with people close to us for one day, and it certainly wasn’t all about extravagant gifts or elaborate Christmas trips. I still feel like that this year in a way, as I keep saying to myself don’t take any of it for granted. I’m doing ...
As we all know I really like to support local and small businesses as much as possible, I’m always shouting about them on Instagram. Rather than just share a post that lists them all, or do a gift guide (hate doing them), I thought I’d combine the two. Shopping small, shopping local ...