Well, we made it! Chico and I arrived back from our 1000-mile, five-and-a-half-month epic adventure in November and are now recovering in Aberystwyth. Chico is hanging out in a field nearby, with the finest views in Ceredigion, a shed full of hay, and a woolly white buddy called Flo. And […]

This is a whole new website, by mistake! The last one was built on Posterous, a blogging platform that has been bought and now canned by Twitter. Damn, fickle old social media… So, this one will get better, but in the meantime check out the other site, where the 2013/14 […]

The second piece from the Sport magazine outdoor section was a top five of running, starting with something attainable and moving on to a 145-mile non-stop run along the canal from Birmingham to London, and a 3100-mile run over 50+ days, around an…

Those good people at Sport magazine asked me to do a summer outdoor adventure section for one of their April issues. The first piece is a round-up of interesting places to stay, and a thematically linked interesting thing to do nearby, like stayin…

Last year I went to visit FareShare, a brilliant organisation that saves surplus food from landfill, and enthused about it here.They just seem to go from strength to strength, and when I heard that they were hosting a Valentine’s feast made entire…

I can heartily recommend the Raindance film course I went on last Saturday. It was mostly about feature films – screenwriting, producing, directing and breaking into the industry – but the directing and producing parts will definitely inform the f…

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 …