Tracking Tractors
Was this tractor heading towards us or away from us? Spoiler Alert 🙂 Tractors gain more traction with a ‘backwards’ herring-bone tread on their tyres.…
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How to Navigate Using Snow Strips
As is my habit at this time of year, I like to get out early after any overnight snow. The tracking opportunities are spoiling and…
The Walker’s Guide to Outdoor Clues and Signs
The ultimate guide to what the land, sun, moon, stars, trees, plants, animals, sky and clouds can reveal – when you know what to look…
Newsletter Quiz
The following is taken from the last newsletter (subscribers received a fuller version of this a month ago, you can subscribe at the bottom of…
The Beast from the East
Cold air from the east is bringing weather mayhem. Or some snow and what we British like to call mayhem. As Bill Bryson once commented,…
Shortcut Clues in the Clwydian Range
I had a bit of fun on a short walk in the beautiful Clwydian Range of hills recently, using a very simple technique that hovers…
Ramblings with Clare Balding
In 2010 I was honoured to lead Clare Balding on the first ever night walk for her wonderful Radio 4 series, Ramblings. Yesterday we were…
Turning Over a New Leaf
Here is the perfect plant for to set the new year up with, Mimosa Pudica. The leaves recoil visibly from the touch, earning the plant…