Pennine Way
A week ago Ant and I finished off the Pennine Way – a 270-odd mile trek from Edale (near Sheffield) to Kirk Yethom (near Berwick) in 15 days. I’ve been putting off writing the regulation blog post...
View ArticleCanon Eyecup
If you’ve lost the little eyecup for your Canon EOS 300D (like I did a few months back), you can buy a replacement from Amazon. The product link is here: Canon CUPEF Eyecup EF for EOS 300V – even...
View ArticleOSM on my GPS
The picture says it all, or rather says most of it at least. I’ve bought a microSD memory card for my GPS, and now it can take extra maps on it. And of course, what map would I want on it, other than...
View ArticleSnowboarding
I really am trying to write more often; it’s just that I keep getting distracted by going out and doing things…. Last weekend I got back from a week of learning to snowboard in Les Arcs 1800, in the...
View ArticleEastern Grit
We went climbing over Easter, as I mentioned before, and spent four days climbing on gritstone in the Peak District. The climbing was really good – we had four days of good weather. I tried my hand at...
View ArticleFill the Gap!
Last weekend was the “Fill the Gap” mapping party in Kew and Richmond – the gap being between all of our stuff around Putney and the stuff further south-west coming up towards Kingston. Although I had...
View ArticleA Wise Man is Astonished By Everything
A few months ago I was cycling home along Smuggler’s Way near the Wandle Delta when I spotted some graffiti on the wall of a builder’s mechant. A few weeks later I stopped off to get some photos. Not a...
View ArticleHeron Tower
I like how this giant skyscraper – going to be taller than the adjacent Tower 42, and taller even than One Canada Square in Canary Wharf, is slowly inching its way skywards. I wonder whether people...
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