Kid’s and the Outdoors

Gareth    Gareth, General Outdoor     Gareth, Kids, outdoors

Life for me turned upside down on 24th July 2007 when Ifor was born and the amount of outdoors time that we had before hand changed for the worst. We have tried to keep our outdoors lifestyle up to date since then but through necessity have had to compromise. I’ve blogged before about how the Macpac vamoose has really helped us still go outdoors but this article from Stephen Regenold has some great tips about what to do when your life turns upside down! In particular his tip about slowing down when you have kids is a great one. You may not get as much in as life before chidren, but what’s important is your experience changes and incorporates your kids which for us has added a new dimension to our camping and hiking.

What a lot of boxes!

Gareth    eCommerce, Gareth     Busy Day, Gareth, webtogs

Fairly monumental days are occurring here at Webtogs, we had our busiest ever weekend last weekend, I’m not going to mention numbers but we had to get the Royal Mail & Parcel Force lorry’s to come down and help us out early! All in all it’s been a great start to the year for us and we’re really pleased that we’re getting bigger whilst still delivering what we always set out to do, great products from an easy to use site with fantastic customer service and straightforward returns.

So this is just a little post to say thanks to all of you who have bought from Webtogs, it means a great deal to us all that you shop with us – Cheers!

I love my world

Gareth    Gareth, General Outdoor     Chris Holland, Gareth, Wholeland, Woodcraft

One of the perks of working for an outdoor company is that we get to meet some fairly cool people over the course of a day. While taking an order before Christmas, I got nattering to one of customers, a chap by the name of Chris Holland who runs a business called Wholeland He teaches woodcraft to lots of different folks, school’s business’s etc and I was hugely interested about what he did.

He’s recently released a book called I love my world. The description has it as “a new guidebook to rekindle the naturally playful spirit and develop a deep connection with nature from an early age. Full of bushcraft, environmental art, nature awareness and outdoor play activities, as well as mentoring tips and beautiful images, this book will make you want to pack your bags, step out into, and celebrate our wonderful world. It’s for parents, environmental educators, play rangers, forest school leaders, teachers, aunties, uncles…in fact anyone with a love of our world who spends time outdoors and enjoys sharing it with other people.”

It’s something that having kid’s I think a great deal about. I want Ifor to experience the outdoors, and get as much of a love for it as I do. From all accounts Chris has nailed a great response to the current environmental crisis by getting kid’s involved at an early age. Kudos to him.