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A couple of follow-ups (follows-up, if you must) to the Lost Man's River review: firstly I alluded to it having taken quite a long time...

More exciting outdoor-adventurousness news as promised, but first a bit of scene-setting: we went on holiday to Scotland at the end of July....

We went for a walk up the Blorenge a couple of weeks ago; broadly similar in route and distance to the two previous walks we'd done - th...

A couple of unstructured thoughts after returning from a long weekend at Center Parcs with the family. Firstly that "with the family...

Tokyo Express by Seicho Matsumoto. A man is dead, on a beach. Suspicious? I should bally well say so. Suicide? Yes, but how? Well, surely h...

Fragrant Harbour by John Lanchester. Hong Kong? Phooey ! No, really, it's true. Former British colony, business powerhouse, cultural me...

You'll recall my frustration at being thwarted in my plans to do a long circular walk in the Black Mountains back in May of last year. ...

Been out for a couple of walks recently that seem worthy of note (hey, it's my blog) so here's the first. It was my birthday a coupl...

I was inspired by my mention of going to school in West Bridgford in the early 1980s to try and find the two schools I went to. We were onl...

Here's a map of a short walk we did with some friends when we went up to Leicestershire to visit them for New Year. We had, collectively...