Where might adventures start?

peer through a holed stone,
who knows what might be looking back!

Where will your adventure begin?

 

cross the river slowly, step by step, stone by stone

We are hoping you will brew some wild adventures of your own to tell us and after our stone dreams posting, maybe you'd like to think about starting points...

 

is there an old gate to open...

...because old gates are full of promise!

If you are retelling an old story or making up a new one, look around for an intriguing place where the action could start. This might not be the very beginning of the story but this might be where our heroes step out into a strange and wonderful adventure. There might be a rabbithole to fall down, a wardrobe to hide in, or maybe just to go for a walk at a different time reveals something fascinating...go for a walk round your town, village, local park, nearest wildernesse and trollhaunt...start a map

 

a simple path might
lead you away into the wildness

Look, listen and sniff: what do your senses tell you when you go to a new place?
Where are - what are - the exciting places, the secret places, the special places where you live?

 

an old tunnel, an abandoned train,
a dragon's lair, a cavechild's home

What is the risk? Is there an obvious danger, a secret peril or just a mystery….

don't slip, don't fall, who waits in a Derbyshire river?

take a photo, draw a picture, write a paragraph or a poem, share it with us!

perhaps a scarecrow compass
will point the way to adventures

(grown-ups can join in too!)

Photos in this blog:

from the top:

• holed stone at Wycoller Country Park, Trawden (no, it's not in Derbyshire, sorry!)
• stepping stones in Dove dale
• old railway line between Buxton and Bakewell ( 2 pictures)
• not sure where this old gate is!
• skull gate is in Resolis Churchyard on the Black Isle (no, that's not Derbyshire either)
• Dovedale stepping stones again
• scarecrow compasses are secret and their locations may not be revealed
• Wyedale near Cresbrook Mill