Machen Forge Trail with a spring in my step

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When we were little we had two pet tortoises called Peter Petra and Micky. Every autumn we’d help our parents fill two cardboard boxes with straw and we’d put one tortoise in each. Cosy and warm, they’d hibernate until the … Continued

Keeping healthy, Zanzibar style

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So, we’ll be heading off to Snowdonia in the spring for some more commissioned work. It’s nearly two years since I climbed Snowdon for the first time, and I don’t know if we’ll have an opportunity to again conquer Wales‘s highest … Continued

Zanzibar… notes from an African island

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Sadly the weather here in South Wales continues to be too wet and windy to contemplate any decent walking, though fortunately we’re not as waterlogged as those poor people living on the Somerset Levels. It’s hard to imagine we were … Continued