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I saw this free online wildfire course from the Moorland Association and did it to see how it compared to my LANTRA training. Recommended for literally anyone (not just land managers) that would like to know more about the causes, science and response to wildfires. There is a 10 question test at the end withContinue reading “Wildfire Awareness Training”

Unveiled on 7th August …

I absolutely get the need for an injection of funds in to @peakdistrictnationalpark but this is horrible. If anybody else did that you would jump all over them. It also partially obscures the exit from the car park for vehicles travelling west – i ‘look forward’ to the position of the sign being cited asContinue reading “Sign Of The Times”

A great mini film about the diversification of farm potato sheds in to padel courts …. and the saving of a farm watch

My friend Gordon quotes a saying from his Grandma’ regarding decision making and procrastination … ‘do a poo or get off the pot’ My indecision around the Hilleberg Akto goes back nigh on 30 years. That’s a lot of years ‘on the pot’. Writer, gear expert and long distance walking oracle Chris Townsend bought oneContinue reading “New Digs”

Got on a train in Sheffield bound for Penrith.  Somewhere near Preston the train in front caught fire. We went to Chorley for a long wait.  Hours later we got going. Then most of the trains northwards were cancelled and >30 carriages worth of passengers tried to get on our 5.  30 in to 5Continue reading “Hot Fells”

Many of the farmers that i know are saying that the ticks are worse this year than they have been in a long time. Maybe that’s the mild winter followed by some very warm spells of weather in Spring ? Check yourself properly and regularly. Get talented with squatting over a mirror (preferably in private).Continue reading “Ticked Off”

Reading, riting and ‘rithmetic … ? I won’t be mentioning it much on the socials but a few months ago i literally stumbled across a large healthy badger sett not too far from home, up on the moors. With that anthropological thingy where humans like to name things / animals in nature, and as aContinue reading “The Three R’s”

I received several well intentioned calls earlier this evening from folks that had seen ‘a massive meal being prepared’ in a layby under Stanage. I messaged the farmer and asked if he could pop by. He did. Ten minutes later he sent me a photo of a pile of curry. I asked if they wouldContinue reading “Uncle Phil”

Various takes on the causes, damage and politics behind / around the Tintwistle wildfire (*see earlier post by Tom Aspinall RSPB) For the Daily Mail reading side of the moor there’s this … and for a nifty bit of *open source* multi-database analysis of the fire site and the impact thereon by slope, aspect, vegetationContinue reading “Smoke and Mirrors”