If you have to be working on your birthday, it might as well be fun work! I’ve been celebrating my youth today guiding a group of students down, up, across and off some of the dramatic cliffs of Anglesey. It’s been an un-usual cold spell of weather, with temperatures plummeting down in to single figures Read more

At the end of May was invited to the Climbers Club book launch for the new climbing guidebook to the Lleyn Peninsula (titled ‘Pen Llŷn’). It was such a busy time for us, that I purposely didn’t even open the new book so that I couldn’t get distracted from the various expeditions that I was Read more

It’s been an active week of water sports work for me – always a good thing at this time of year when the water is at it’s warmest. It’s been tiring work, but one evening we hiked up the hill behind The Cottage as it felt like a good sunset might be on the way. Read more

With more computer based jobs to work through, we were pleased to be able to ‘nip out’ on our bikes at high tide and cycle down to the coast. It was a 10km ride that was almost all downhill and got us to the end of the straits just as the tide began to drop Read more

We had nearly 50mm of rain overnight at The Cottage and by morning, the steam by the house had turned into a decent sized river as the water made its way to the sea. Despite the rain, it remained pretty warm all day and after a few bursts of strong sunshine at The Cottage, we Read more

Feel like I packed about as much as I possibly could into this day! Clare was on a course today, but wanted to make the most of the good weather before spending the day indoors, so at 7am we set out together on a run. From the front door of The Cottage, we went up Read more