Author Archives: tpltravelled

A clip from the tenant farmer of Stanage North Lees on the Sunday morning of the August Bank Holiday weekend. The abridged version of my rant is that the people making decisions on how to deal with the serious crisis of vehicle based visitation to the National Parks (and other Protected Landscapes) have simply notContinue reading “Build Them And They Won’t Come”

Does. Not. Compute. Two middle aged male local residents walking out of the quarries (after we told them to leave) telling us how disgraceful the behaviour is of ‘them ones’ that light fires in the woodlands and all go up Mam Tor causing a mess is. One of them had literally seen the Froggatt EdgeContinue reading “Special Dispensation”

*to be read whilst listening to ‘I don’t like Mondays’ by The Boomtown Rats ‘The silicon chip inside my head gets flipped to overload’ Sir Bob wrote about not liking Mondays. I quite like Mondays as (currently) i don’t work them. A fellow ranger set off on her Monday ramble at Upper Burbage and veryContinue reading “Sir Bob”

This is ‘Kevin’ *Despite similarities in their demeanour, we have no evidence to suggest that Saturday Kevin knows Friday Karen. Kevin doesn’t come from Greece nor does he have a thirst for knowledge.He comes from Lancashire and he has a thirst for trespass, alcohol, Class B drugs, BBQ’s, fire and damaging farmers property. He didn’tContinue reading “Dear Kevin”

Imagine the scene … It’s about an hour since ‘Karen’ drove off (we’re fairly certain she tried to get in to a blue Astra before getting in a white BMW) … You then went with a colleague to extinguish a fire and BBQ at the foot of another crag …. and your colleague has toContinue reading “The Return of E.T. ?”

Dear Karen, We met at Curbar last night. You were with your boyfriend. And a BBQ. A villager reported it. Our drone saw it. My colleague extinguished it after explaining the law about them to you. The law permits the rangers that look after the Edge to tell you to leave the area and notContinue reading “Dear Karen”

Another day and another article on the soaring (pardon the pun) rise in wildfire events in the UK This one by Robyn Vinter in the Guardian.  Another day and another article that categorically fails to mention the main cause of wildfires. *The NFCC Operational Guidance definition of a wildfire is that it involves a geographicalContinue reading “Hear All, See All, Say Nowt”

As i was walking through a local park yesterday i saw an elderly chap reading a map. Holding it up and tracing lines on it like one would if running their finger along sentences in a book. Turning the folds as if they were pages. I stopped and made a comment along the lines ofContinue reading “Maps”

***Viewer Discretion Advisory*** One option is a decent well printed calendar with 12 images from the ‘Dark Side Of The Moor™️’ Bags of dead dogs flung over a wall. Deer beheaded with something blunt and left headless in a copse. Gazebo gang and the pissed up dickhead creeping up on us from behind carrying anContinue reading “Dark Side Of The Moor™️”

Remember what i wrote yesterday about a relatively quiet Friday usually leading to a busy Saturday …. ? Lovely sunset – the uninterrupted view from Higger Lodge (when it existed – next to this tree) down the Hope Valley and across to Kinder must have been extraordinary in the evening light. BBQ Padley Gorge (noContinue reading “Told You So”