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I’ve contributed to several issues of the very beautiful new(ish) Reason magazine, launched last year by Ian Sansom, who I used to work with at Fall-Line Media, in his new company Black Heart. I’ve failed to get hold of a copy of either of the iss…

Great fun to be asked to wax lyrical about the River Wye, which I did by reminiscing about all the different canoeing trips I’ve had there, from an end-of-GCSEs treat with mum to a romantic weekend away with a plush airbed and pink champagne, to m…

The Outdoor Adventure Guide will always have a special place in my heart, so although I’m not editing it any more I’m still chuffed to be asked to contribute. Issue 91 last spring had two of my pieces in – this one on islomania, the love of island…

Last season I began presenting a bunch of films for MadDogSki, and I’m slowly putting them out on the site now. It’ll take me a bit longer to get blase about watching myself talk to camera, but the films have been very well received and certainly …

After 18 months of redesigning the site, we have finally gone live with the new MadDogSki website. The process has been a fantastic learning curve for the whole team as we took what was previously a print product with a supporting website, and put…

I’ve written a yearly ski destination round-up for Sport magazine three years running, and now they’ve asked me to do a monthly ski-themed page for them too, which I’m very pleased about. Here’s December’s, in which I chose to promote the great cl…

By far our most exciting friends (they are cross-continental adventure motorcyclists, filmmakers, bluegrass banjo players and barge-dwellers), Lois Pryce and Austin Vince have started up the brilliant Adventure Travel Film Festival (http://adventu…

Our allotment won an award last year which was presented a few weeks ago at a terribly prestigious soiree. It’s all down to a tremendous amount of work by a few very green-fingered folk in the basin, of which I am not one, but at least I can do my…

Not my film, but I happened to be there when the filmmaker, a fellow called James Geen, was filming for this friendly company back in January. I’m the one winning the sledging race at the end of the film – my skills on those crazy wooden one-ski s…

Today I went to visit FareShare in my role as a trustee for the WFSouthall Trust, and was blown away by how brilliant they are. It’s the most simple idea – a charity that takes the surplus food from the supermarket supply chain, and redistributes …