I never thought I would be writing a post about a computer-based activity that has absolutely no connection to the outdoors whatsoever and not only posting i...

I don't understand how I had never heard of Puck's Glen until last month. I've never read about it, never heard it mentioned by any of the hundreds of outdoo...

Wow....Babble Rock!! You guys are amazing!! As I sit here tonight, the group has grown to 1603 members, with a huge jump in the last couple of weeks. This is...

A few weeks ago we were lucky enough to be introduced to the amazing activity that is geocaching by some friends. As I'm a complete newcomer to this activity...

So as we have mentioned (quite) a few times on the Babble Facebook group, we are launching a social enterprise business, either this spring or by summer at t...

I have no idea why, but somewhere along the line, I was given the impression, by someone (and I blame the father of my Youngest Spawn, who hails from Gourock...

I actually wrote a post about Lynn Glen when we visited last year, so in many ways, you don't need to hear me droning on about it again at any great length! ...

For almost a year now since he turned 3, my son has attended an absolutely outstanding forest nursery: Woodlands Outdoor Kindergartens at their Southside Ven...

This walk is so definitively Classic that its page on the walkhighlands.co.uk website actually includes that adjective in the title (as an aside, hands up w...

The blog title is a rather unfair quip on the fact that Loch Lomond also runs a fairy trail where you can pay £3 per adult and £4 per child to obtain a clue ...

Babble Rock's third toddler-pace walk of the year took place on an extremely chilly March day. An article in The Scotsman draws a parallel between this stret...

I have held off writing this post for a long time, simply because there is no such thing as a definitive camping guide. Camping with kids comes in so many gu...

A chap on a Facebook kayaking group of which I'm a member asked me today what I had named my 4-seater kayak. His children had called their own SOT kayak Prin...

A few folk have asked how to make an event on the Babble Rock Facebook page, so here is a definitive guide! Firstly, as you know, our Facebook page at nearly...

This may be my shortest blog post yet....but I thought I'd let nature, and these mirror-like shorts at Glen Trool, speak for themselves. Glen Trool was the s...

Snow outside! It must be time for a blog post about boots! Actually I bought these mighty pieces of footwear for myself and Xani just before Christmas and t...

Trust me: some real magic often happens at the Greenock End O' The World. Down by that coastline and beauty can spring up unexpectedly with the play of the l...

My last blog post raised the question of how to create harmony and balance between the four-legged and two-legged members of Babble Rock. I asked all those w...

OK…I filched that title from a Raymond Carver collection of short stories. As I was mulling over what on the surface should be a pretty easy question to answ...

Last night, as the icy mid-January cold bitch-slapped my face, and the post Christmas financial horror-fest dealt similar violence to my bank statement, I fo...