A Quick Catch Up…
Well haven’t the last few months been strange! I haven’t posted anything personal or about what we’ve been up to for a while, so grab a cuppa, have a sit down and let’s have a quick catch up.
Since the UK entered lockdown back in March, I have completely neglected my blog. Firstly, this was due to a lack of time as I now found myself working, homeschooling and looking after a toddler. It was incredibly hard to balance everything and I found life very overwhelming and stressful for a while. I also wasn’t in a great frame of mind as after the long, wet winter we’d had, I had planned some great trips for this Spring and Summer that we had to cancel. I know it’s a first world problem, but we had all been so excited about going to the Lake District, Devon, the Cotswolds and our summer holiday in Portugal (only 7 years since my last foreign beach holiday-sob).
Secondly, the whole purpose of this blog is to inspire and encourage people to head outdoors and I didn’t feel I could do that while it wasn’t safe. Even discussing future plans felt like I might have been contravening official advice, so I decided to not post anything new for a while.
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To be honest I didn’t even have much to post! I wasn’t feeling very inspired or motivated, and I’m not sure anyone would have been interested in our daily walk round the local park.
I knew that my viewing figures would suffer, but I’ve had blogging breaks before and been able to get it back with a bit of hard work.
So imagine my surprise, when I logged on this week to see that in fact my site has been getting lots of hits. Specifically, my local content, like my Top 5 Northamptonshire Walks post, have been VERY popular recently. This has led me to create a new category, if you look up you can see I have grouped all of my local content together so it’s easy to find.
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Looking Forward
Given the popularity of my Northamptonshire content, and the fact that more of us are going to be staying local and travelling within the UK this year, I am going to focus on producing lots of new, good quality local content. I’m going back to basics and doing what I do best, inspiring everyone to explore their local area and get outside.
I have just renewed my membership to OS Maps (affiliate link), so I can get stuck into researching and planning some new walking routes. If you haven’t used OS Maps before, I have a guide here.
We have rescheduled our Cotswolds camping trip for August, and I am currently planning another camping trip for the summer holidays (fingers crossed we get to go away-we are desperate to be camping!) Providing these trips happen, I also plan to produce more camping posts, especially some new recipes.
I hope that you are all well, and have managed to survive the last few months. I would love to hear how your are and what you’re up to, so feel free to leave a comment below, or contact me on Facebook.
Welcome back! I felt the same about posting walks and trips so I know what you mean. I hope you get some trips in – fingers crossed for camp sites opening again soon.