Camping at Cardewlees

01/11/2026

01/11/2026

Zero sleep last night and awful anxiety has resulted in a brain wave 😂

Drop me a DM or email if you’d like a stall. No charge!

Just a chance to help other small businesses.

Feel free to share 😊

31/10/2026

🐾 FIREWORKS? NOT IF OUR FOUR-LEGGED GUESTS CAN HELP IT! 🎆🐶

Every year around this time, we get lots of visitors who aren’t coming for a holiday as such… they’re coming to ESCAPE the fireworks! 🐕❤️

And we’re actually in a pretty perfect spot for it!

Our campsite is around 300 metres from our house, surrounded by open countryside, with no immediate neighbours. 🌳🐑

Even Dalston village no longer has its own fireworks display, so we’ve been incredibly lucky that, year after year, we’ve remained pretty much a firework-free zone! 🤞

For dogs who find fireworks absolutely terrifying, that peace and quiet can make the world of difference. 🐾❤️

Now, obviously, we can’t control what happens beyond our fields or guarantee you won’t hear the odd bang, but so far, we’ve been very fortunate!

So if your four-legged best friend spends Bonfire Night hiding behind the sofa, shaking like a leaf, perhaps a little countryside escape is just what they need! 🏕️🐶

Does your dog hate fireworks, or are they completely unbothered? 👇

31/10/2026

I’m not saying my friends are better than yours… but they are! 😂❤️

Meet Shakira, who was supposed to be styling our beautiful bride for our recent wedding shoot, but somehow ended up being our guinea pig for testing out our new microphones! 🎤🤣

But on a serious note, one thing I’ve learnt in business is that who you surround yourself with makes ALL the difference. ❤️

So much of what we’ve achieved at Cardewlees isn’t just down to us. It’s down to the incredible friends we have around us. People who give up their time, share their talents, believe in our mad ideas and genuinely want to see us succeed. 🥹

And our recent wedding styled shoot was the perfect example of that.

What started as a group of talented people coming together to collaborate turned into something so much more. People arrived as collaborators and left as friends. 🥰

That’s the sort of business I want to build. One that’s about more than making money. It’s about connections, supporting each other, having a bloody good laugh along the way and creating something special together. 🫶

I’m so grateful to every single person who helped make that shoot happen. You all brought something different to the table, and I couldn’t have done it without you.

And Shakira… we’ve championed each other from the very start, and I love you! ❤️🥹

.FLORIST.GARDENS

30/10/2026

😂🗣️ 24 years living in Cumbria and I STILL sound like a Southerner!

People are often quite surprised by how strong my Southern accent still is, considering I’ve lived up here for 24 years now! 🤣

I must admit, when I first moved up here, it took me a while to get over the language barrier! There were all these funny little words and sayings being thrown into everyday conversations that made absolutely ZERO sense to me! 🤷‍♀️😂

My father-in-law has a REALLY broad Cumbrian accent and speaks like a proper old-school farmer. Even now, I quite often find myself chuckling when I realise some of our campers haven’t got a bloody clue what he’s saying! 🤣🐑🚜

But it got me thinking…

What’s your favourite local word or saying that people from outside your area just wouldn’t understand? 🤔👇

It doesn’t have to be Cumbrian! Wherever you’re from, I want to hear those weird and wonderful little words that make absolutely perfect sense to the locals but leave everyone else scratching their heads!

💬 Pop yours in the comments, along with where you’re from. I reckon we’re going to have a good laugh at some of these! 😂❤️

30/10/2026

🥾🌿 A little mooch around our local countryside! 📸

Took my new Meta glasses out for a wander to capture just how beautiful our doorstep really is! 😍

One of the lovely things about staying at Camping at Cardewlees is that you can walk straight from the campsite and be in the gorgeous village of Dalston in around 20 minutes! 🚶‍♀️

Enjoy stretches alongside the River Caldew, take in a section of the Cumbrian Way, have a mooch around Dalston Green and soak up a bit of village life. 🌳💚

And let’s be honest, no countryside walk is complete without a cheeky pub stop along the way! 🍻🍷

No need to jump in the car, just pop your walking shoes on and head off exploring.

Sometimes the best adventures are right on your doorstep! ❤️

📍 Camping at Cardewlees, Cumbria

29/10/2026

Don’t get me wrong… money is nice! 💷😂 And my God, we all need to make a living!

We’re fortunate enough to enjoy a lovely lifestyle, and I’m grateful for that. ❤️

But I’ve never dreamed of being a millionaire, building some huge business or employing a team of staff to run the campsite while I sit back.

That’s just not what success looks like to me.

What gives me a bigger buzz than any amount of money ever could is the community we’re building here at Cardewlees. 🏕️❤️

The friendships being made, the connections between complete strangers, the laughter around the campfires, and seeing people come back year after year. 🔥🥰

Knowing that, in our own little way, we’re helping people make memories with the people they love… that’s the bit that means everything to me. 🥹

Of course, the business needs to make money to survive. But I never want chasing money to become more important than the reason we started doing this in the first place.

Because for me, success isn’t about how much money we make. It’s about how much what we do means to people. ❤️

And that really is the heart of everything we’re trying to build here at Camping at Cardewlees. 🌿🏕️