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I HAVE a plan. Tomorrow is my day off because I worked Sunday. I’ll drive across the icy Pennines to the Lake District, abandon the car on a rough piece of land at a charming cross-roads above Dockray, climb Birkett … Continue reading
IT’S 7.45am on Friday morning and I’m standing on the flight deck of HMS Invincible, watching the sun rise over a scarlet Morecambe Bay. I shouldn’t be up here; I should be down in the aircraft carrier’s aft engine room … Continue reading
A final trip back into the Bronze Age in search of rock carvings . . . Continue reading
IF anyone saw a C2C cyclist shoot over his handlebars on the seafront at Roker, Sunderland, at the weekend, and felt a momentary pang of concern as he landed with a howl and his bike on top of him – … Continue reading
YOU think you know your parents. You presume that, after a lifetime of familiarity and togetherness, their lives, their characters and their pasts are so utterly immovable and unchangeable that they might as well be cast in stone. Then one … Continue reading
Eric Pickles and an empty billy can spoil an otherwise flawless day on the fells above Haweswater . . . Continue reading
A Pennine walk through railway history in the company of heroes Continue reading
In 1863 a 73-year-old geologist called John Bolton hiked into the Lakeland fells to spend a couple of nights beneath the stars. His adventure turned into a nightmare. Continue reading
