New MadDogSki website is live and kicking
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…
Writing a monthly column for Sport
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…
Getting involved with the Adventure Travel Film Festival
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…
Getting our lovely allotment in the local press
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…
Cameo appearance
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…
Feeding London with supermarket surplus
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 …
I went to Lao… several years ago
This isn’t news, it’s just me using this blog as a scrapbook! I just rediscovered an old travelling buddy on Facebook – one of those lovely people who you spend every hour with for a few days, and then you go to London and they go to San Diego, an…
Getting nude for art
At the Big Chill festival last weekend I got the chance to get my kit off in the warm early morning sunshine with a fieldful of friendly strangers. Here we are (courtesy of someone from the Metro, spying on us from the other side of the pond) bein…
I survived two miles in the Thames!
Triathlons and all sorts of variations on the theme are just booming in the UK at the moment. Ordinary people can excel, it gives the weekly or daily exercise regime some focus, it’s competitive but also sociable, and it means you’re outdoors and …
Swimming with an Olympian
The new editor of the good old Outdoor Adventure Guide that I launched and edited until last year recently sent me on a wee assignment which involved getting into the Serpentine in Hyde Park in order to get some swimming tips from Keri-Anne Payne,…