Wanderings

The story so far.  The plan is to walk from Loch an Eilein, up into the Lairig Ghru each month during 2015. In January, fabulous clear blu...

Spring can be a fantastic time on Shetland - the cliffs start to fill up as the nesting birds return, there are (usually) lots of migrants a...

Image by Martin Vavřík, via Wikimedia Commons On this blog I usually report on trips I have done - this post is a bit different, it'...

Private Andrew Riddell My great-grandfather died at Gallipoli in July 1915, he was 28.  This is what I know about him. In the summer o...

Another month - another wander along the Lairig Ghru to see what's changed. When I was planning this project for the year I had some p...

Long long ago I used to visit Liverpool regularly. My first serious involvement with elearning was as part of the MATTER Project  based ...

My last trip north, for a quick walk up the Lairig Ghru ,  was almost exactly 60 hours from leaving the house in Oxford to parking the car b...

One of my projects this year is to see - and photograph - how a particular walk changes during the course of the year.  I’ve picked one of ...

In both January and February I've been able to spend time exploring the Rothiemurchus Forest in the Cairngorms National Park.   This i...