At some point there might be a proper newsletter type thing. In the meantime …. Full report on ‘Therapeutic Nature’ for DEFRA written by (amongst others) Exeter Medical School, and the European Centre for Environment and Human Health. The report analyses the types, aims, outcomes and benefits / disbenefits of the use of nature asContinue reading “Something for the weekend ….”
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Slightly Higher Up
Not the Peak District for a change. A weekend in Snowdonia. Not often one complains of the heat whilst there, but this weekend was silly hot. The ‘main event’ was guiding 9 military veterans up Snowdon. I won’t go in to the queues and sights but needless to say the mountain was an eye-opener. TheContinue reading “Slightly Higher Up”
Ticks
Excellent article from Mountaineering Scotland Ticks
Dark Peak days
I took the opportunity to spend Thursday and Friday out on the hill. I’m getting reasonably hill fit again after all those months of plodding round local parks. Thursday i took two clients that are ‘getting the miles in’ in advance of their Yorkshire 3 Peaks round, on a walk. We took the bus toContinue reading “Dark Peak days”
Once more in to the W3W fray …
Another day and another news item about the accuracy of the What3Words App. It has its place. It has its imperfections. But it has saved lives, and it is particularly valuable to vulnerable people. There is a reason why the emergency services continue to carry the tech to enable them to interpret locations from it.Continue reading “Once more in to the W3W fray …”
Public. Transport.
The Hulleys of Baslow bus from Manchester Rd in Sheffield at 1342hrs didn’t appear. I waited. I scanned the QR code at 1339 and the 1342 wasn’t even listed. ‘Well that’s a bit crap just not running the bus’, thought i. I had planned a quite hard walk from the top of Snake Pass andContinue reading “Public. Transport.”
Lanes Not Moors
A weekend of assessing DofE Bronze expeditions for Bromsgrove School. This is an annual gig for me as the Head of the CCF there is an ex-colleague and long term good friend. Ordinarily we would be on exped in the moorland of the Peak District but the rule on the ratio of students to busesContinue reading “Lanes Not Moors”
The Martin Moran Foundation
I was a bairn when ‘The Munros in Winter’ came out. I remember booking it out of the library many many times until i joined the Army and bought a copy. It lit a flame in me. I recall tracing Martins route on an OS sheet of Scotland. I did the same on a BartholomewsContinue reading “The Martin Moran Foundation”
Mental Health Wellbeing Week – Nature
The theme for the 2021 Mental Health Wellbeing week is ‘Nature’. It’s all very well having a ‘theme’, but it is important to understand the link between “mental health wellbeing’ and ‘nature’. Professor Miles Richardson of the University of Derby worked with the Mental Health Foundation on the report explaining the research linking the two.Continue reading “Mental Health Wellbeing Week – Nature”
Learning from experience
I recently became a ‘volunteer patrolling warden’ for the Eastern Moors Partnership who look after the moors close to home. I have already done some litter picking plods and also a ‘challenging behaviours and having difficult conversations’ course (see earlier post), but today was my first ‘proper’ day out. Fortuitously for me, as I wasContinue reading “Learning from experience”