Last night’s ascent of Pen y Fan was easily my best to date. A few colleagues and I had been kicking around the idea of an after work climb for the last couple of years but, as is often the case, great ideas tend to fizzle out unless someone grabs Read more…
Hopefully it won’t have escaped your notice that last night the clocks went forwards an hour which, for those of us who enjoy the great outdoors, marks the start of an exciting time. Longer days mean extra hours of daylight and for the first time in what seems like forever Read more…
A quick glance across the Burry early Friday evening showed clearly that all was not well over on Gower. Even from a distance of some fifteen miles I could see the flames and their surrounding glow, each growing in both ferocity and height with each passing minute. As it turned Read more…
As promised I’ve pulled together a couple of clips from our walk along the Glamorgan Heritage Coast earlier this week. The first captures probably the largest ‘blow’ we witnessed which included at least three separate blowholes doing what they do best. The second shows what I count as the classic Read more…
Sun! No I could scarcely believe it either but we finally got a break in the weather on Sunday and headed straight for the coast at Ogmore. There were still several heavy showers moving up the Bristol Channel but by and large they avoided us leaving just gale force winds Read more…
I wouldn’t normally feature a power station on this blog but in the case of Cockenzie, I’ll make an exception. Its towering structure was such a prominent and regular fixture on the landscape during our time in Edinburgh that to exclude it would be to omit a key part of Read more…
Words and images from 26/11/2015 Our last full day in Edinburgh and it was time to get my geek on. Where better to combine my love of history, engineering and railways than at the Forth rail bridge, one of the most iconic structures ever to be conceived and built. Opened Read more…
Something I’ve always struggled with photographically on Mull are sunsets but with such short days during our most recent trip I often found myself still out and about as the sun bade us farewell. This meant a whole host of new opportunities presented themselves and I’m more than happy with Read more…
It was a late trip to Mull for us this year but our reward was definitely worth the wait. Autumn was in full flow and every direction we looked delivered another assault on the senses as a kaleidoscope of reds, oranges and yellows shone like nothing I’ve ever seen before. Read more…
As September marches on it’s now glaringly obvious that the days are getting shorter. We’ve already lost at least an hours daylight each evening and with it the sun has given up a lot of the strength which used to see dusk stretching on seemingly well into the night. At Read more…