23rd January Just going wild


With wild camping and wild swimming seeming to be so popular that even Robson Green is now doing them , perhaps its time to try some alternatives from the wilder side of life?

Wild shopping involves trading a visit to the supermarket or lifestyle experience of your choice for a jolly to somewhere at the opposite end of the retail chain. Trade down by leaving behind perfectly manicured aisles full of organic pasta and natural virgin pressed fennel jui in Waitrose to engage in hand to hand combat across the middle aisle in Lidl with ferral children whose mothers dressed in PJ's and matching fluffy slippers are more concerned with their latest Insta post that their Lord of the flies behaviour. Or trade up and buy yourself an M&S meal for two for the price of an entire basket of food from Aldi.

Feeling thirsty then per chance wild drinking is for you. This involves leaving those hipster boutique bars where a pint cost £8 and tastes of nothing more than bubbles and instead head to the local 'offie for an extra large 2 litre botttle of White Diamond cider which you consume in your local children's playground before falling asleep on a bench even though it's not yet 9am. If you are still there when the afternoon school runs starts consider it a day particularly well spent.

Or could you be tempted by wild cooking which involves throwing caution to the wind and buying all of the five 'essential' spices that you are convinced will enable you to cook any Jamie Oliver recipie that takes 3 hours to source, half a day to prepare, 7 hours to cook and 6 mins to empty straight into the bin.

Wild walking on the other hand is perfect for those with too little energy to engage with wild running and too much energy to try wild lying. Combine this with a spot of wild sitting and you could have found your personal paradise. Whist this coud easily be mistaken for just parking your arse anywhere, wild sitting is not done to rest, to wait for someone, admire a view, ponder a problem or even to kill some time. Wild sitting has no visible or tangible purpose, not even to sit.

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