Author Archives: tpltravelled

With less people, activity and cameras in the countryside and rural communities than there are in towns and cities, it’s really important that the ‘that’s a bit odd’ and the ‘somethings not right with that’ get reported. The Rural Crime Teams of both the constabularies that EMP work with refer to these nuggets of informationContinue reading “Jigsaw Pieces”

With the money we will doubtless earn from the Netflix serialisation i am going to buy a fleece jacket in the next size up.  On a slightly more serious note, we (aka the Rangers that look after the @eastern_moors_partnership landscape at night) do ‘this sort of thing’ a lot. There is a long long listContinue reading “Fame and Fortune”

For many months now i have been making several visits a week to a sett out on the moors to monitor the 🦡 there and occasionally take them some morsels and peanuts. Then the other day my next door neighbour messaged me to say ‘look out your living room window at the conifer … andContinue reading “Closer To Home”

The problem these days is you can’t just walk on to the moors with your mates and have a few bevvies and let off a load of fireworks and leave your shit everywhere without some do-gooders appearing out of the darkness in a 4×4 with some mega drone overhead. Modern life is rubbish. Five ofContinue reading “Guido The Sensible”

I only went in for a torch. Being me it was a very particular torch. They didn’t have any left. I mooched about a bit. Then when i was over in the books and maps bit my mate John said ‘Oy, have you seen the new OS yet?’ ….. and over the next forty minutes,Continue reading “Does Size Matter?”

The network works. A farmer rings me to tell me his daughter has seen a verge side campfire on the moor at Stanage.  I’m on an important task (picking up pizza) so i ring ranger colleagues. They’re on scene in under 2 minutes. Two men from Oxford are adamant that their campfire ‘isn’t an issueContinue reading “The Network Works”

Mountain Rescue Awareness day. (Yesterday) How to get the simple bits of hill safety advice to the demographic (males aged 18-25) that are causing some rescue teams a nightmare with huge numbers of often unnecessary (by which i mean the ‘casualties’ are fit and well – they’ve just exceeded the limits of their equipment andContinue reading “Clint Eastwood”

Apparently i was one of the first and few people to write about 1) the proposed ‘verge parking ban’ along the N edge of the Hope Valley, and 2) the Severn Trent Water pipe project … ….. and i know that lots of folks picked up on these two issues and also on the potentialContinue reading “An update of sorts …”

The annual pilgrimage to The Wasdale Head Shepherds Meet and Show was a bit different this year.  It was cancelled.  We weren’t to know that as we ventured North then West and decided on an impromptu stop at St Bees beach. An amazing sunset have way to a pummelling by hailstones.  Trying to sleep withContinue reading “No Show”

In amongst all the shenanigans of the weekend me mate from the Emerald Isle suggested someone (🧐) ought to do an anonymous monthly article for ‘something like Derbyshire Life’ about the mad, bad, hilarious, awful and just plain weird shizzle that goes on ‘round ‘ere’ mostly after dark.  If i did it (😉) i’d callContinue reading “From Our Roving Reporter ….”