Category Archives: Diary

Sunday 7 January 2024 With the festivities over, and with the weather at last turning from wet and wild to cold and bright, I have been tempted back outdoors over the last few days to recover some walking fitness. My walks have included a trip to the Malverns with Rachel, and I thought I wouldContinue reading “Call Me Back Again”

Tuesday 19 December 2023 So here it is – Merry Christmas! Where the year has gone I can’t explain – maybe it is all of my LETJOG Peaks walking trips that have helped 2023 to fly by so quickly! I just wanted to wish you all a Happy Christmas, and the very best for 2024.Continue reading “Winter Wonderland”

The Ridgeway: Day 5 – Princes Risborough to Ivinghoe Beacon (18.7 miles) Friday 17 November 2023 It has been a sunny privilege to walk the final and possibly the most glorious section of the Ridgeway on such a clear and fine November day, with the autumnal Chiltern woodlands at their best. I know the easternContinue reading “Friday Street”

The Ridgeway: Day 4 – Wallingford to Princes Risborough (22.7 miles) Thursday 16 November 2023 Descending yesterday, from the chalk uplands of the Downs into the Thames Valley I witnessed a complete change in the landscape; and today, almost from the start of my walk, the climb up into the wooded Chilterns marked a goldenContinue reading “Thursday’s Child”

The Ridgeway: Day 3 – Wantage to Wallingford (19.8 miles*) Wednesday 15 November 2023 I will start today with a thank-you to all those new to my Blog – I have had several ‘new-follower alerts’ in the last few days – and also to those who have been reading my musings for a while. ThankContinue reading “Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.”

The Ridgeway: Day 2 – Ogbourne St George to Wantage (23.5 miles) Tuesday 14 November 2023 My limited research tells me that parts of the Ridgeway have been used as a thoroughfare, and as a drovers’ path and trading route, for over five millennia, right back to Neolithic times. Along sections of wide grassy tracksContinue reading “Ruby Tuesday”

The Ridgeway: Day 1 – Overton Hill to Ogbourne St George (12.4 miles) Monday 13 November 2023 An early and very wet start greeted me today. The first day of any remote multi-day walk necessarily entails travel to the start point, and (along with the weather) a couple of train delays this morning certainly dampenedContinue reading “Rainy Days And Mondays”

Sunday 12 November 2023 The Ridgeway is reckoned to be one of the very oldest ‘green roads’ in Europe; it is for the most part an ancient drovers’ track that runs for around 87 miles from Overton Hill on the Marlborough Downs in Wiltshire eastwards to Ivinghoe Beacon in the Chiltern Hills of Buckinghamshire. TheseContinue reading “Take The Long Way Home”

LETJOG PEAK No 1: Pavis Wood, Hertfordshire (244 metres) Walk Date: Friday 17 March 2023 Along with many I often obsess in seeing new places, but there are other worlds out there to be discovered just by altering one’s habits and perspective. Until the last few days I hadn’t realised that I live within easyContinue reading “Green Green Grass”

Ride & Stride – Tuesday 6 September – HOME to INVERNESS After so many months of planning Ride & Stride begins for real today, and the team has now assembled in Inverness ahead of our adventure around the NC500. Our thoughts are with Julian back at home, recovering well by all accounts from his recentContinue reading “I’m On My Way”