Author Archives: tpltravelled

Miles Richardson @findingnature has written about the feeling of helplessness of those engaged in the effort to protect nature. Another 3 fires on the bit of countryside i voluntarily help look after. The first of these involved my colleagues being verbally abused and physically threatened. The last one only came to light this morning –Continue reading “Anger Management or What Would Alf Do ? “

Dear Mum and Dad, Having a lovely time in the Peak. Me and some mates stopped by this mint viewpoint last night and had a barbecue and smashed up the picnic table and set fire to it. Loads of laughs. Mint night. Dancing like a dick and went and lost me diabetes tag thingy inContinue reading “Postcards from the (Curbar) Edge”

When you get hyper-focused on people causing harm to the landscape in the dark hours it’s a joy to be proven wrong. After being out with my @eastern_moors_partnership colleagues detecting and extinguishing campfires last night, i was on my way home when i noticed lights on Burbage Moor after 11.30pm. Out of the dark cameContinue reading “Halt. Who Goes There ?”

The act of camping on land that is not yours and where you do not have permission from the landowner / landmanager is, in law, a civil matter of trespass. For every fire and whatnot that appears on my socials and on my blog (that the Eastern Moors Partnership team have found) there are dozensContinue reading “Auf Wiedersehen, Pet”

Got to Winnie’s bench. There were a bloke sat on it. Now then. Now then. Come far ? No, not far. You ? No, not far. Grand day eh ?  Aye cracking.  Then he starts vaping about 3m upwind of me and covered me in some sickly stink. Minging.  I did one for half hourContinue reading “Scorchio”

Experience made us twitch. A quiet Friday night and Storm Dave on Saturday left us expecting a busy Sunday.  We was right we was … Early evening glimpses of groups walking in to woodland. Two fires in BoleHill / Lawrencefield before 9pm. NT Longshaw Rangers dealt with the second of these.  This was the thirdContinue reading “Unsurprised View”

‘Only when you drink from the river of life shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance’ – Kahlil Gibran @couldntgetmike #bemoremike Keep It Simple

I have been lucky enough to attend a few of the Arc’teryx Academy events. In 2023 i went to the Alpine Academy in Chamonix. The little group i was in for the week was guided by @freddegoulet and @benjaminribeyre . As often on this kind of compressed learning experience one hangs off the shirt tailsContinue reading “Another.”

I dug the bike out of the back of the garage just now She’s called Geraldine (she has her own Insta account at @theadventuresofgeraldine albeit nowt has gone on there for millenia ). Tyres were flat. Tubeless sealant had glued the tyres. Etc etc. Must be 18 months since i swung a leg over her.Continue reading “Mechanised Tramp”

If you’ve got an animal that needs rescuing …. if no one else can help …. and if you can find them …. maybe you should call … It wasn’t a cat called Ramsley this time …. it was a calf called Frank. Frank was a twin born yesterday afternoon in woodland at the bottomContinue reading “Be More Frank”