Journal

 “Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we could learn from books.”  JOHN LUBBOCK SUILVEN, WEST SUTHERLAND, SCOTLAND "Mountain species with narrow habitat tolerance, particularly higher elevatio...

  “We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.” HE...

 “If you keep colouring within the boxes and writing on the lines, you may never be able to do something remarkable. Break your spirit free to explore.” BERNARD KELVIN CLIVE Who better to massively inspire our lives with colour than the incredible Chloe Uberkid and her beautiful children.   Her ...

The RNLI, a truly heroic charity manned by volunteers, steeped in British seafaring traditions of selfless duty to protect those in peril on the sea and coastlines of Britain.

  “When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen.” A.A. MILNE, WINNIE-THE-POOH Autumn; a time of adventure, of kicking through the gathering piles of fallen leaves and finding rich pickings of bejewelled berries in amongst the hedgerow...

“Scientific evidence for warming of the climate system is unequivocal.” INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE In a world where so many motivations are political, stands a remarkable young woman who speaks bravely and profoundly from the heart. “I want to feel safe. How can I feel safe when ...

I would like to introduce this blog with the disclaimer that I am in no way a marine biologist. With the attention span of a particularly erratic gnat, it never seemed a likely path for me.  But if that could have changed with the flip of a coin, I'd have found it incredibly fulfilling.  Here ...

"I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by; And the wheel’s kick and the wind’s song and the white sail’s shaking, And a grey mist on the sea’s face, and a grey dawn breaking..." SEA FEVER, JOHN MASEFIELD We first ...

We’re kicking off our blog with the hot topic (no pun intended) of the importance of thermo-regulating properties in clothing for children and why this is worth its weight in gold. A concept you will likely be only too familiar with, is that children have a tendency to change their play plans...

"What is a Wanderess? Bound by no boundaries, contained by no countries, tamed by no time, she is the force of nature’s course." ROMAN PAYNE, THE WANDRESS When we talk about the #TinyExplorer® we are not just talking about little people donning hiking boots and going on Ranulph Fiennes worthy e...