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It’s a funny old ‘world’ this social media int’ it … You post some serious stuff and nobody bats an eye-lid. You post a picture of yourself smoking a fag whilst holding a can of fuel whilst a wildfire rages 2ft away in the AI generated background and some people genuinely think its real. YouContinue reading “Funny Old World …”

Amendments to the ‘Dogs (Protection of Livestock) Bill have cleared the House of Lords and will be enshrined in law once they have received Royal assent. Overview of the Dogs (Protection of Livestock) (Amendment) Bill The Dogs (Protection of Livestock) (Amendment) Bill aims to enhance protections for livestock in England and Wales. It introduces significantContinue reading “The Law Bites Back”

….. following on from FrankenBergan 1 … …. was a 2hr natter with an equally gear obsessed colleague about the design attributes of the perfect winter mountain rescue pack … We then had the idea of finding someone with a mobile heavy duty industrial sewing machine and meeting them for a paid days work nextContinue reading “FrankenBergan 2”

and the search still goes on • i’ve designed the winter sack i want (in my head) but nobody makes it • so i keep buying and trying and selling • anyway, @tomrichardson1811 has given me a lend of his @mountainequipment Tupilak 45 to see what i think (maybe he caught me lusting after itContinue reading “FrankenBergan 1”

I can vividly recollect the smell of the dubbin’ in the boot room at Carlton Outdoor Education Centre in 1983. You don’t know why you’re doing it at that age, you just smear piles of the stuff on to them. I think they were ‘centre boots’ made by Daisy Roots. Worn with enormous red socksContinue reading “Dubbin’”

The link between the high point of Houndkirk Moor and the wartime protection of the City of Sheffield … and efforts 80 years later to stop it getting trashed.

aka a bit of local wandering on a December night to piece together some more local history … A field. Redmires, Sheffield. There once was an old racecourse here, covering around 100 acres, but it had fallen into disuse by the mid to late 1870’s. By the outbreak of WW1 over half of it appearsContinue reading “Redmires Airfield”

Having to disfigure the landscape (with fencing) to stop people disfiguring the landscape (by driving 4x4s illegally on to legally protected peat moorland) I’m sure efforts like this took place in the countryside when i was a kid but i can’t honestly recollect any Did people consciously set out to damage the countryside in theContinue reading “Fence 1”

‘Operation Major is a new partnership aimed at raising awareness about the use of dogs in wildlife crime. @badgertrust , @leagueagainstcs , @naturewatchfoundation , and the @rspca_official have teamed up with the police to launch the campaign’ ‘The aim of the Operation Major campaign is to improve the recognition of wildlife crime indicators and toContinue reading “Operation Major”

Whenever you read the MWIS forecast (and Dear Reader you really ought to) look out for the word ‘significant’, especially when prefixing the words ‘windchill’ or ‘snowfall’. The translation of ‘significant’ from MWIS English to lay-person English is ‘will defo need your biggest coat, overmitts and a second hat’. As an example, at about duskContinue reading “Significant”