Having worked for a couple of years in the Royal Geographical Society, steeped as it is with the rich heritage of great British exploration and frequented still by the modern world’s m... Read more
There is nothing I enjoy more than “ordinary people” do extraordinary things and thus you can imagine my joy when I came across She Who Dares. They’re a group of women of a... Read more
I have three rather exciting opportunities to share with you today. If I were able to go myself then you could bet your bottom dollar that these adverts would not have seen the light of day... Read more
It has been too long since I last challenged you to an Everyday Adventure. I hope you have been squeezing the juice out of life these past months but I fear you may have let it slip you by.... Read more
You’ll see on the right hand sidebar of my website, there are two lists of Popular Posts. They’re calculated based on a couple of measures such as the amount of people that read... Read more
Eddie Izzard did a run for Sport Relief last year. If you’ve not heard of Eddie, he is probably best known as a stand-up comedian and not at all for his sporting prowess. If you didn... Read more
At the top of each and every post on this website is a photograph. The vast majority of them come from my back catalogue of holiday snaps (for most of the remainder, I’ll thank Dave Te... Read more
At the end of each quarter, I list some favourite articles as selected by the web master (that’s me). They may not be “the best” or the most popular but they’re ones that I... Read more
Here are some blog entries from other people’s websites that I have enjoyed or got something from over the last two months and think that you might too. Have a look and cast your votes... Read more
What is this life if, full of care,We have no time to stand and stare. No time to stand beneath the boughsAnd stare as long as sheep or cows. No time to see, when woods we pass,Where squirre... Read more
Sean Newall is preparing for his first of four grand expeditions which will take him through all 72 Commonwealth countries. Expedition number one will see him cycling 20,000 miles around the... Read more
I met Dan Martin in the Lake District last month where I commandeered a motorboat and shipped kit to an island that he swam to and where we cooked up a feast on an open fire and camped out... Read more
