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Goshawk – My Search for the Grey Ghost
A wood mouse forages on the forest floor. It is hungry and like all animals it must eat to survive. Its acute sense of smell draws it closer to the nutty crumbs of a grey squirrel’s plundered cache. The crumbs halt the fast paced rodent and it begins to feed furiously, as if instinctually aware […]
Rewild the Child – how parents and schools can inspire children and teach them to love nature
Last month in one of my blogs, I described how people, in particular young people, have become digitally distracted. In the children of today, there is an unquenchable thirst for instant communication, they exchange video, music, messages with barely a thought. They are tech natives, they do not remember a time before mobile phones, apps […]
The Allendale Challenge -Besting the Bogs and Mastering the Marshes
Thankfully, the weather forecast is accurate and I wake up to clear blue skies. The day of the Allendale Challenge will be unseasonably warm for the second year in a row. But better too hot than too cold or worse still, too wet and too windy. With the elements seeming more friend than foe and […]
Rewilding – how restoring the land can help us restore ourselves
A few years ago my brother got me a book for Christmas. Feral, written by the Guardian columnist, George Monbiot, introduced me to rewilding, a concept which has floated around in my head ever since. I’m going to keep things simple (as I like to do) and define rewilding as restoring something back to its natural […]
Becoming intrepid – how friendship helped me find my spirit of adventure
In my last blog, I recapped my struggles with depression and my fears for a generation of digitally distracted kids for whom the mobile phone has become an extension of themselves. This week I want to talk adventure, the spirit of adventure and how I managed to find it. It’s a story that starts with […]
Walking for Wellbeing – My walking story and my concern for the digitally distracted
I didn’t just wake up one morning feeling depressed. Nor on reflection did it just creep up on me. I think it just washed over me. I was making unhealthy, self destructive choices that crippled my (already low) self esteem and reinforced a sense of worthlessness that existed beneath the laddish persona. A persona […]
Steel Town Rambler Review – Grizzly Man
Grizzly Man is the haunting and tragic tale of Timothy Treadwell. A flamboyant and controversial conservationist who spent the latter part of his life living with Grizzly Bears in Alaska’s Katmai National Park. A complex and emotional character, Treadwell’s mission to protect the bears and educate the public was brought to a horrific halt towards […]
Walking 101 – common sense tips to get you started
People often say to me they’d like to get into hiking or ask me how did I get into walking? However, I often detect a note of concern or hint of anxiety in their voices. They worry about the mileage, can I walk ten miles? Will I get cramp? Do I have the right footwear? […]
STR Review – Wild (2014) Reece Witherspoon
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] I bought Wild on a freezing cold Wednesday night in early January. I settled down with the last of my Christmas chocolate to enjoy one of the few hiking related films that had slipped under my radar. A few friends had given it glowing reviews and a cursory glance at google suggested I’d get […]
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“The Walker” by Kieron Young