Musings on a new year

There’s a fine line between being fashionably late and downright tardy yet despite January appearing to stretch out for hundreds of days, waiting until the 27th to wish you all a happy new year is I fear straying towards the latter. So what have I been up to during the Read more…

2018 – Plans, Plans, Plans

It’s probably not escaped your notice that we’re now well into February and I’ve yet to publish my plans for 2018. Indeed I’ve yet to publish much of anything. I’d love to say that we’ve been on some crazy mad adventure which has kept me away from the interwebs but Read more…

Climbing Snowdon

Looking Forward to 2017

It’s genuinely hard to believe that twelve months has already slipped by since I last sat in this chair and put pen to paper (cursor to screen?) in an effort to try and lay out what I wanted to achieve during the year ahead. I made no promises that all Read more…

Climbing Pen y Fan

New Year Plans v2016

If you’ve read my year in review from 2015 then you’ll already have seen a couple of hints as to what we’ve got planned over the next twelve months. There’ll be plenty of walking, not an insignificant amount of birding and, just for old times sake, yet another attempt at Read more…

Lapwing, Llanelli WWT

Start of a New Birding Year

January thus far has definitely been a little quieter on the birding front than I’d have liked with both terrible weather and the day job principally to blame. Working every day for the last two weeks is definitely not to be recommended at the best of times, least of all Read more…

Swansea beach under snow

New Year New Goals

A new year calls for new goals as once again I shall be eschewing the traditional resolutions in favour of an undoubtedly more achievable set of plans and ambitions. I did the same thing last year, though in a far less formal way, and ended up having one of my Read more…

My Life Outside blog

Happy New Year

A few days late I know but Happy New Year and welcome to 2010. And what a cold start it has been. We have had snow on the ground here in Pontarddulais for the best part of three weeks now, and with temperatures dropping even further over the next couple Read more…