Activities - Books and videos about outdoors

Outdoor benefits - video

http://www.scotoutdoors.com/

Books to excite the camping kids

Make it Wild!: 101 Things to Make and Do Outdoors
outdoor blogs by parents to keep kids happy

Art of camping

The book suggests" I just want space and  unallocated time. I want disorganised activity for my children. 

I want the time table to be torn up."  The reveiwer Tom Fort says..."I like the no telly and reading in the early morning with hot tea... I like the easy sociability so rare in this country, and the opportunuity camping gives to observe the lives of others. I like the adventure of it. I like the way the children make friends after 10 minutes and you hardly see them again except for meals... This book is essential reading for thoughtful campers."

http://www.akelasden.co.uk/

http://www.campmor.com/

Outdoors

Natures Playground
Art of camping

Activities - Sports. Horse riding. Fishing. Knockhill racing. Cycling. Swimming. Showers. Skateboarding

Fishing - Loch Gelly

Shore fishing

Lochore Meadows - activity centre

 

Otterston loch (No.1 on the map.)

Feeding the ducks - Moorhen, Coot, mallard, swan....

stargazing while camping

Forth boat tours
and Maid of the Forth
nearby from South Queensferry.
Loch Leven

Did you know you can camp at this rustic campsite and a mile or two up the road you can get showers at the Duloch leisure centre -Leisure centre showers

showers from £1.25 Jnr low season - £1.85 - £2.60 Adult high season.
 just behind Duloch Tesco.
Also at Dalgety Bay Leisure centre.


 Sport and leisure centres
Dunfermline swimming membership

Cycling -cycle path approx. 100 metres from here. See fuller info on post "Cycle..."
Fishing here and see suggestions below. You can then search the internet for more detail.


 knockhill racing

Swimming baths:-
Burntisland - Beacon leisure centre -Flumes.
Perth - Outside feature pool
Cowdenbeath - plus gym

Sports centre Dalgety Bay.

Local taxi 01383 410088

Fishing
fife fishing guide
Stenhouse Loch,
Loch Leven but not re-stocking.)
 Kirkcaldy Raith Lake
Lochore.
North Queensferry sea fishing.
Dysart pier fishing.
Coastal fishing- Maggies croft Cumbernauld.
Orchil. Deanswood Livingston.

Horse riding Falconry

Fife Leisure park, bowling, crazy golf, cinema,
several eating places, Pizza, mexican, etc. lots of walks.

Burntisland skateboarding video

What's on free in Dunfermline

Horseriding Lochgelly equestrian centre

Horse riding Fife Visit Scotland

Horse riding Lochore activity meadows

Maintenance - Driveway 2010 and 2009

Much behind the scenes preparations for our  campers.

Annual maintenance of driveway.

Another ditch dug for water drainage and 70 more tons of road coverings.

More diggers, road scalpings and rollers to smooth the surface.

2009 maintenance:- Driveway and  small digger

for campers' lane - drainage

road scalpings

Another 40 tons of road surfacing delivered this year, for the 3 turning points.

We spend a few hundred £'s a year on this.

There's about 1500 metres of this road to tend to.

So we charge a £8 one off, car entry fee for the whole of the campers' visit

 and £4 for their day visitors' cars.

Re-doing all the pitch signs.

Processing the dead trees to logs for trugs.

Maintenance - 2013 Camp entrance

19.11.2013

 50 metre hedge at entrance 

Annual cut

From this

July 2013

Archive photo

Maintenance - drainage video Top pitches)

Press video link

http://animoto.com/play/gcZOL6xI8m1ZlV1bhDiLGw

Maintenance - 2011 Drainage and footpaths

December 2011 improvements

200 metres of Field Drains at the lower camp, included :-

60 tons of 40 ml graded aggregate,  200 metres of trenches,

a 2 cubic metre soakaway

3 men and a few cups of tea.

Plus machines:-A Dumper truck

Large and small digger

With assorted buckets and fork attatchments 

 for trenching and removing old scrap metal from near the badger hide.

New pitch after removal of rubbish

New path on top of drainage channels

Lower pitch footpaths

Maintenance - Camp service vehicles

Various trailers and  motors used for servicing

 the camp, cottage and woodwork

3 pannier  grass cutter

trailers for tree coppicing

Including logging

grass cutting, water carrying, rubbish recycling

Guess what's in the box?

A pit bike for my 40th anniversary

No hands for braking! The germ of an idea for haulage Seems to be turning into a boat

I name this trailer...

You'll see us working round and about.

Maintenance - 2012 Ground water drainage video

Little waterfall feature

At entrance to campsite

This is a small exposed part of the "Cundie" 

which stretches a few hundred metres all the way up the drive on the left.

While you were packing your tents away for the winter,
 we've hired in the usual machines to keep draining the land
and channelling the water off the pitches and driveway into the unusual " Napoleonic" drain.

Maintenance - 2014 - Machinery for grass cutting, rubbish collecting, etc.

14.3.2014

Some uses for a dead tree (see fuller posts):-

Poles for the "Truncator"

Kindling and  beefy logs for the hydraulic "Wood splitter"

 beefy logs for the hydraulic "Wood splitter"

Brushwood for "Dead hedging"

1.3.2014

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Roof repairs

21.2.2014

Heating up the bitumen for camp roof repairs

11.2.2104

Clearing up pitches, leaves to compost.

 22.5 litres of waterproofing for various camp roofs

27.1.2014

Repair to rustic steps to lower pitches

14.1.2013 - Out with the old

Into the mechanical "Grab"

Weigh bridge

 After unloading

After unloading

 at the scrap metal recycle yard which was the old "Wards" shipbreakers.

 3rd and 4th grass cutter from this excellent specialist

In with the new