January may be over but it’s still very much winter in this corner of the UK. After a pretty horrendous working week, I decided a...

Back in November the good-web-developer-him-indoors and I boarded the 2115hrs train to Fort William (this is like the midnight train to...

Ah, the crisp smell of winter walking. I love walking in winter, and although I tend not to do big distances given the early sun down,...

Yeah, yeah, I know this isn't the promised Saxon Shore Way. But I just haven't gotten round to it yet and have instead been stomping...

After a relatively leisurely September, and with just a week until the next Old Way expedition (watch this space) a long weekend beckoned...

As the roadmap out of lockdown grinds onwards, the words ‘the stay at home rule will end on March 29th’ caught my eye. I am eternally...

The advent of Lockdown 2.0 put paid to the planned Greensand Way grand finale (fingers crossed for December), but the lure of Kent was...

Gazing out of the window right now, it seems a long time ago since we were experiencing something of an Indian summer. Never one to pass...

Looking at the long range BOILING HOT weather forecast, it was with a degree of relief that I packed up the kids, tents, sleeping bags,...

I ordered myself a new map for the next stage of the Greensand Way (never wanting to be too reliant on tech and a GPS signal), spread it...