Run for your Life

The 'Western Isles' My birthday fell on Polling day this year - May 6th - when all radio, TV and newspaper coverage was about the...

FRIDAY. In a little under three weeks time my wonderful partner is scheduled to lead a group of U3A walkers over some exceedingly rough cou...

Yesterday, the funeral took place of an old acquaintance of mine, one of my mentors whom I regard as something of a legend, one of those won...

Mossdale shooting hut Last Saturday I re-acquainted myself with Mossdale, a wild and remote valley that lies in the shadow of Great Whern...

EASTER SATURDAY was a 'go it alone day' when I set off for a gentle run round Grassington Moor, desperate to get my old legs working...

Because of dire predictions of forthcoming inclement weather - heavy rain, sleet and snow - I ran up the ghyll early this morning before the...

I'm not sure what the official temperature was yesterday. All I know is that for the first time this year I reckoned it was warm enoug...

SATURDAY . It was freezing cold when we arrived at Ullswater on Friday afternoon but we awoke to a warmer and more habitable environment on...

During the last two weeks of February, while Britain shivered under yet more snow, my wonderful partner and I were savouring the heady deli...

There are days On paths that zig-zag High into the hills We pass beyond the pain, Catch that tingling in the scalp That tells us soon ...

At 77 years old there are increasingly more times when I want to forget I'm a racing animal. When, for a few days at least, I can disreg...

We left home with umbrellas up on a dark, cold rainy morning en route for Leeds/Bradford airport for a flight to Alicante. For reasons best...

We did it again. The intrepid duo of Longwood Super Vets ventured into the rolling hills of Swaledale yesterday and scored another impressiv...

It's nice to see a church full to capacity with standing room only for late-comers, and that happened in our little village of Hebden la...