If you wander the hills, farmland or forest at all, you must eventually come across farm animals that are in a spot of bother. You could walk past thinking someone…

Last in this short series on weather maps & forecasts. To recap on previous: Air circulates (wind direction) in anticlockwise way around Low areas of pressure and in a clockwise…

Have you ever been out on the hills in fairly mild wet, misty conditions to then experience a heavy belt of rain followed shortly by a sudden clearance to clearer,…

What gives us our weather are air masses of different natures: warmer, cooler, wetter, dryer, unstable, stable etc and then how these air masses mix together and influence each other.…

A recent discussion on weather apps put me in mind of weather maps and how to interpret and make you own weather judgements, based on these charts and your own…

I was involved in running mountain navigation courses and the like back in the 1980s. It’s where I honed navigation and route finding skills picked up previously in the course…

Some small scale littering/ dumping in a local wood near us. I find it hard to understand why people still think it’s OK to throw a couple of bags of…