Water is calming. We flock to lakes and beaches in the summer, seaside holidays are popular, as are boating excursions. And how perfect is lying in the grass on a warm afternoon, next to a gently gliding river?   The River Arun near Pulborough   The Wey South Path is a 36-mile marked trail between […]

  In 2009 my stove of choice was an MSR Pocket Rocket. I still have it and occasionally, when I’ve run out of alcohol, still use it. I’ve nothing bad to say about it except I hate gas canisters (I can never judge how much gas is left and subsequently always end up taking 2), […]

The Last Englishman Downloads   Firstly, thanks to everybody who downloaded a copy of The Last Englishman for Kindle this last weekend. It was primarily for promotional reasons, namely I figured the more people reading my books is the best advertising I can get but I also reasoned it would be a nice gesture. The […]

  Recently I said that I would offer a free promotion for my book The Last Englishman if I received over 400 Likes on my Facebook page by the end of April. Well, it went a lot better than expected and you all did me proud with 427 Likes, meaning around 120 of you hit […]

  Apologies for the couple of days delay in announcing these winners, Sawyer were pretty inundated with entries and we had to take a little time to sift through them all. So, the 5 winners of a new Sawyer Squeeze SP129 pack are: Dean Gerstel, Konrad Meurer, Cody Bartz, Andy Champion and David Meschke.  

   The Familiar One   ~ A tale from my favourite path   Reserved for those days when we don’t want to be fussing around with GPS programming, locating the right map and subsequently stopping every half a mile to marry it up with a compass, nor scratching our head and wondering if that path […]

    The new Sawyer Squeeze   It was only a few days into my Appalachian Trail hike. The tail end of winter was giving up the ghost and reluctantly allowing spring to take over. It was warm; I had been walking in shorts, not bad for the beginning of April. The woods were still […]

    Firstly – A Quick Piece about ‘Sodding Off’   I wasn’t aware that ‘Narky’ was even in the dictionary, but it is. The online Oxford Dictionary offers: bad-tempered or irritable: she got narky with this bumptious little prat giving her lectures   It describes perfectly the character behind an occasional anonymous email I […]