Author Archives: tpltravelled

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 ….”

Live scenes from the InPost customer services desk .. Indulge me whilst i vent my spleen a little …. I sold a thing on eBay on 23/9 The thing was a pair of blue Patagonia trousers.  I sent them asap using InPost. Here’s the tracking number  JJD0002233571451118 The buyer received a parcel linked to theContinue reading “Lost In-Post”

= Look Out (Kathryn) Lindquist @lookoutlindquist One of my favourite insta accounts (i do have a fetish for learning about wildfire). And the adventures of Kathryn and Gus are informative and entertaining Bedrock Sandals have published a long post by Kathryn about her fire season. A highly recommended read.

Marvin arrived yesterday … I’d seen one of Marvin’s siblings on a missing person search recently – it turned a dark night in to bright day and made a significant difference. I thought one would be useful for both my rescue and rangering roles … Marvin has a twist to close sphincter and a signContinue reading “Marvin”

It would be fair to say i sensed tonight might be a bit busy. Some second sense made me change out of my approach shoes and in to my big boots too. 9.20pm ish two blokes with a fire camping in Burbage Valley. The fire was extinguished and they were invited to leave. The droneContinue reading “Nowt’s Changed”

A day spent leading a ‘Four Ethels’ walk for @cpre_pdsy as part of @sheffieldwalkingfestival …. A lovely bunch of folks who got to hear me blether on about all sorts of things relevant and irrelevant whilst being guided on a circular walk from Hathersage to Higger, White Path Moss trig, Stanedge Pole, High Neb trigContinue reading “Canny Day Out”

It’s that time of year again … In the Gaelic calendar, the 20th September is traditionally ‘Bhuiridh’, the ‘Day of the Roaring’ as the stags begin vocal challenges to rivals. If you find yourself near males that urinate on their own legs, puff their chests out and bellow at women …. and it’s not aContinue reading “Are you in a Wetherspoons ?”

Then and now … If brands turned off sponsoring people based on their follower count and turned on sponsoring people based on their responsible approach to the outdoors, safety and nature, would the stats for mountain rescues go down ? would there be less wildfires ? would there be less flycamping ? Being a dickContinue reading “Then and Now”

An article on choosing and using a headtorch that i wrote for Edale Mountain Rescue Team in 2024. Bright Ideas Tomorrow is ‘Mountain Rescue Awareness Day’ … and the clocks are changing too. It’s about to get darker earlier. Rescue Teams in Peak District Mountain Rescue Organisation – PDMRO and across Mountain Rescue England andContinue reading “Carrots and Knicker Elastic”

Llanberis MRT posted this yesterday. I have a couple of roles within media within mountain rescue and i don’t know what the answer is. I don’t know what the endstate is either. Given the sharply rising trend of callout numbers since Covid, and given that we’re already at the point of ‘this isn’t sustainable’, whatContinue reading “Suggestions”