Friday afternoon saw the last ‘broadcast’ of this week’s run of online teaching on the hottest day we’ve had so far. Once all the de-briefing was done, we jumped on the bikes and set off up the valley to the swimming hole. It’s not far away, so we peddled extra hard to maximize our exercising… Read more

All the rehearsals, planning, creating and learning went live this week for our first-ever week of Online Outdoor Education lessons. Having the skills to operate the tech and finding a balance between off-screen and on-screen activities has been a huge challenge, but one that I feel that we rose to well. As with learning any… Read more

Today we completed something that we feel might have been a once in a life time ride around the National Park. We’d always been put off from this obvious challenge by the thought of the dangers and unpleasantness of passing traffic, but in these strange times, the traffic has all but been eliminated. Just the… Read more

Had an another amazing local walk, from the front door, past places we’ve never been, with views we’d never seem and even met some neighbours we’d never seen or spoken too.  The slate quarries behind the house are full or history. For ever tonne of slate that was extracted, there were another ninth tonnes of… Read more

Most of the day disappeared into cyberspace as I spent almost all of it working on our new Online Outdoor Education program. But there was still time for a quick blast up the valley at the end of the day to rub off the laptop induced fatigue. The temperatures are back up again, so it… Read more

The North Wales ‘home-based’ cycle touring expedition continued with another new ride today. There have been some amazing wispy cirrus clouds in the sky all day, but the conditions seem set still and the sun continues to shine. There was actually a light frost here this morning, so I worked indoors to begin with, until… Read more