The Daffodils are making an early appearance in The Cottage garden already! A record perhaps?… For our final morning of the year at home, the rains and wind had finally (and thankfully) ceased, and droplets of water hung everywhere as the great evaporation festival began. The ground squelched underfoot as we walked down the track… Read more

December has been a bizarre mix of me buzzing around between training courses, equipment checking and general admin, while Clare has been Cottage bound having been stuck down (literally bed bound), by Cryptosporidium (not recommended at all!). While Clare has been either sleeping or attempting to stay hydrated (food has been off the menu recently),… Read more

Clare and I had intended to spend the day up in the mountains on a long walk or scramble, but neither of us could quite summoned the required energy. And with temperatures at The Cottage only just above freezing it felt bitterly cold out, so we put the idea on hold… In the shelter of… Read more

Having been to Conwy plenty of times over the years and driven past it considerably more, I finally had the chance to take a look inside the town’s famous castle! It’s free to walk around on the top of the town walls, but for about a tenner, you can get inside and wander through the… Read more