Woke from weird dreams, involving hiking, huge great buttresses of mountain and rock, giant-sized structures and bridges (like being inside a manic miner game), strange flats full of young women and their friends and boyfriends (!), then an action...

I’m struggling along here at work, remembering my being out and about, remembering places and times I loved, and the noise of my bicycle tyre comes to mind. Hmmm. So, noises I love. The crunch of my shoe on a path high up on a mountainside, with the...

have you ever thought about giving directions to someone over the phone who has almost no language reference with you? Like right and left? Here’s an interesting experiment - searching on the internet using interesting words - the list is to follow -...

ok, so it sounds quite depressed and moany. yes, it sounds down. wait for it, wait for it…. when life happens, the changes are always there. Nothing changing is just another word for life. How can nothing have changed? If I go just into my thoughts,...

one of the beautiful things missing from walking, camping and my outdoors experiences is the presence of a beloved pet. one of my more memorable trips out into the wild was a geophysical survey trip. My father and a colleague were off into the Barbeton...