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Continue reading →: Roja Goes To Dartmoor.. Hound Tor and 7 more..At Hound Tor At Bell Tor Widecombe-in-the-Moor At Bonehill Tor
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Continue reading →: Wolf Moon by Julio Llamazares
When war comes to our most beautiful places it seems even more tragic than in cities and towns; countryfolk whose lives prior to the invasion hadn’t changed for hundreds of years, should they survive, will never be the same again – Civil war pitting one part of a remote mountain…
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Continue reading →: Scar Lover by Harry Crews
Its clear to see that Crews was a big influence on Willy Vlautin, surely the best of today’s writers in this genre. The protagonist here, Pete, is a typical down-on-his-luck character who is just about keeping his head above water. This lack of luck dates back to childhood when he…
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Continue reading →: Plender by Ted Lewis – Book Review
There’s an appetite at the moment for unearthing 60s / 70s noir-ish British ‘working-class’ thrillers (I am thinking of the likes of Alexander Baron’s The Lowlife and Ann Quinn’s Berg ), and on reading this, it’s easy to see why. It could be it will be better appreciated today than…
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Continue reading →: Best Books of 2019
My best of 2019 split into 3 categories… Published (or thereabouts..) in 2019 Doggerland – Ben Smith Lanny – Max Porter The Redeemed – Tim Pears (last in the West Country trilogy) The Offing – Benjamin Myers Fell – Jenn Ashworth Night Theatre – Vikram Paralkar Broken Ghost – Niall…
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Continue reading →: Branstree from Swindale Crossroads
Fell Running 11.7 miles / 18.9 km – 2043 feet / 759 metres Park at Swindale Crossroads, where the Private Water Board road crosses the public road into Swindale. Head down the hill into Swindale valley south-west meeting the Beck and passing the Old Haunted Waterworks of 1833 (currently being…
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Continue reading →: The Terrors of Ice and Darkness
by Christopher Ransmayr **** (4/5 stars) Three linked stories of exploration intertwine here as an unidentified narrator researches the disappearance in 1981 of Josef Mazzini, whose obsession with the Austrian explorer Julius Von Payer had brought him to the settlement of Longyearbyen on Spitsbergen island, in…
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Continue reading →: A Few Final ThoughtsDistance 1499 miles or 2412 kilometres. Height climbed 92,645 feet or 28,238 metres. Highest place was at 2050 metres Lake Balea on the Transfagarasan road on Day Lowest was crossing the Danube at 128 metres.
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Continue reading →: Day 34 – In Wroclaw2 miles (3 km) – Total so far: 1,499 miles (2,412 km) A relaxing day spent with the main purpose of collecting a cardboard box from a bike shop and collapsing the bike and the rest of my gear into it. Thanks to the guys at Immotion this was no problem.…
To live more widely
supera superiora sequi
SafeReturnDoubtful is my alias. Rua is my fox red labrador pup, born 14 Feb 2026 and learning fast..
Where is Rua?
I was so much older then…
Quote of the Week
Alice asked the Cheshire Cat, who was sitting in a tree, ‘What road do I take?’ The cat asked, ‘Where do you want to go?’ ‘I don’t know,’ Alice answered. ‘Then,’ said the cat, ‘it really doesn’t matter, does it?’
Lewis Carroll
