From A Lakeland Family Christmas
From Staveley Santa Ride
From Leonidio
From Cheaper Electricity with Octopus
From Slovakia
From North Wales Rock has arrived, Wired's Final Guidebook?
From Stonesty South Crag
From Isle of Man Birthday Party
From Adobe's Creative Cloud Licensing Model Sucks

Year: 2025

A Lakeland Family Christmas

Monday, 29th December 2025

Another family Christmas in Lakeland! Before that though James and Oliver accompanied me to Kendal’s Unit 34 bouldering…

Staveley Santa Ride

Monday, 29th December 2025

I was on my own at this year’s Staveley Santa Dash…

Leonidio

Monday, 29th December 2025

Yet another trip to Leonidio – it’s that good there! This time though I went with a gang of Slovakian based mates…

Cheaper Electricity with Octopus

Monday, 29th December 2025

Alongside our adoption of solar panels to get free (when the sun shines) electricity we have moved to Octopus as our provider…

Slovakia

Monday, 22nd September 2025

I had hopes of seeing some ex-soviet brutalist culture when visiting Slovakia. In that regard I was disappointed. Slovakia, despite being very far to the east – just about as far east as Europe goes, is best described with just one word – beautiful…

North Wales Rock has arrived, Wired’s Final Guidebook?

Monday, 11th August 2025

I have just received an advance copy of the latest Wired guidebook, North Wales Rock. Wow, what a great book! In my humble opinion this is the best looking guidebook to rock climbing in North Wales ever produced. 😉 Published under the Wired brand by the Climbers’ Club this will likely be the last ever …

Stonesty South Crag

Monday, 23rd June 2025

Steve wanted to go to Stonesty Crag as he hadn’t been there before. I had been to Stonesty Summit Crag before and so I knew the walk up from Moasdale was a very tough and steep trek! But my warning wasn’t enough to put him off, so off we headed…

Isle of Man Birthday Party

Saturday, 14th June 2025

Another year, another birthday … and a trip to the Isle-of-Man!

Adobe’s Creative Cloud Licensing Model Sucks

Wednesday, 11th June 2025

After decades of storing and editing my photos using Adobe software I am now close to retiring from working with Creative Cloud (CC). Yet the Adobe CC licensing model makes it impossible for me recommend the software…

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