4 Analogue Ways to Engage Digitally Distracted Children

4 Analogue Ways to Engage Digitally Distracted Children

by Rachel Brown | Mar 26, 2018 | Blog, Education

Today’s young people cannot begin to imagine the world before the internet, the i-phone or the selfie. However, there is a growing body of evidence that the sheer power of the machines in every teenager’s hand or pocket (and a great many younger children), the...
Eight Reasons To Take Learning Outside

Eight Reasons To Take Learning Outside

by Robyn Fletcher | Nov 2, 2017 | Blog, Education

As children increasingly spend their free time inside indulging in ever more screen-based, sedentary pastimes, their physical and mental well-being has fallen into decline. Fitness levels are falling, obesity is on the rise and mental health is suffering, to name just...
Get Creative in Your Garden Studio

Get Creative in Your Garden Studio

by TG Escapes | Jun 20, 2014 | Blog, Residential

The artist, Grayson Perry, says that all of his studios hark back to his father’s shed, where the tool strewn workbench became the cockpit of a fantasy aircraft journeying to imagined lands. A place apart, where anything can happen. Somewhere peaceful for, quiet...
Boost your creativity and walk to work in a Garden Office

Boost your creativity and walk to work in a Garden Office

by TG Escapes | May 9, 2014 | Blog, Residential

Next week (12th to 16th May) is Walk to Work Week. You should give it a crack – walking is good for you on so many levels. Hippocrates deemed that “walking is man’s best medicine” whilst Nietzsche purported that “all truly great thoughts are conceived while...
Recharging Your Creative Batteries

Recharging Your Creative Batteries

by TG Escapes | May 2, 2014 | Blog, Residential

Did you know that the human eye is able to distinguish more shades of green than any other colour? This is believed to be related to our early ancestors’ reliance upon the colour green to locate a source of water and food: in short it represents life and is...