Just been reading an article in the Guardian about ‘champing’: camping out in old churches. For £49 (£25 for kids) you can spend the night in St Mary’s Church in Longsleddale, St Leonard’s Church in Old Langho or any of a dozen other churches dotted around the country (though none, as yet, in Yorkshire). With so many churches now surplus to all religious requirements - yet still requiring money to maintain them - this sounds like a good idea. Further info on the champing website.
Licenced last week: the statue of Lord Baden-Powell, founder of the boy scout movement, on the quayside at Poole in Dorset. He's looking across to Brownsea Island where, in 1907, twenty boys pitched their tents and learned about self-reliance and the outdoor life…
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