A great day teaching eager Year 7 students about navigation and orienteering! Weather was pretty naff, but enthusiasm and high psych levels won the day. Really energising to have students getting so into the lesson. After a classroom based start we had a mini orienteering competition at Glynllifon Country Park – where we can across… Read more

Saw what is reputed to be the tallest tree in the UK today! A whopping 49m tall (but still less than half the size of the same species in the States!). I’ve been at Bodnant Gardens in the Conwy Valley, working on a ‘John Muir Project’ with some students. If you’ve never been, I’d totally… Read more

Was back at Battersea Park again with the beautiful people of the city. After a good nights sleep at The Nippers, I took a walk along the Thames before getting to the exhibition centre. A relatively quiet Sunday morning, blue skies and crisp. Shame the weather was so dreadful last night for the fireworks. Still,… Read more

A 5am start saw me on the train back down to London this morning. I (rather randomly), spent the day working at the Independent Schools Show at a big exhibition centre in Battersea Park. It was all rather lovely, chatting to the beautiful people of the city, and checking out what each school had to… Read more

It’s been a pretty grey couple of days, and despite the water levels being perfect for a trip down the Ogwen, I managed to restrain myself and get some work done at The Cottage. I did pop down for an afternoon stroll by the river to check it out. Afon Ogwen at prime paddling levels… Read more

Bonfire night & my ‘Brain Day’!  Been doing a bit of route setting in the bouldering wall today. Enjoyable work with a good group, with plenty of sunshine streaming in through the double doors at the entrance. It’s been cold, but we must have been working hard as we didn’t notice it! After meeting some… Read more