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Dave Snowden
The weather forecast today did not bode well: rain/Sleet at low level and heavy snow above 600m. Left to myself I would have attempted a low level route ready for an early exit before the long drive home after a week working and walking up in North Wales. However my sister had pinged me the […]
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For many years walking in Snowdonia was a regular weekend activity. The drive through Ruthin and then the Clocaenog Forest has many a fond memory. Also sitting around the boot of the car eating potatoes cooked and retained in the pressure cooker wrapped in my father’s war time duffle coat. But in those days we […]
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Today was interesting in many ways. It is St David’s Day and the 12 anniversary of my Mother’s death. She went ten days after my father, and I try and celebrate both their lives each year by doing something that I would have done with them. Given I am in North Wales and the weather […]
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One of the many wonderful things about Snowdonia is the way the architecture and the scenery blend into each other. The slate and stone of the hill sides becomes the building material of the farmsteads, byres, shepherds huts and terraces. As the weather changes, so the stones change texture and colour; there is of the […]
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As some readers know I plan to spend my sixty-second birthday on the back of an elephant hunting tiger with the camera following completion of the Annapurna Sanctuary Trek at the end of March with daughter. We added in the option of a game park day at the end to cover my birthday. It is […]
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I’ve had a good week at Bangor University working on the initial programme for CfAC, interviewing for staff and generally enjoying being in a University environment. Being able to pop into a lecture of Neuroscience and psychotherapy on Thursday, generally interesting conversations and a sense that we might really make a different in health and […]
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Since regaining fitness I’ve kept a pretty rigid discipline of exercise, either with the bike when I am at home or long distance or mountain walking at home or overseas. I really wish I had got my act together earlier as with a little bit of planning you can easily get to see some spectacular […]
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A difficult day as its main focus was the funeral for John and Judith Woodget of Dene Farm here in Lockeridge. They were both killed in an accident on the A303 a week ago and add to my growing list of unnecessary deaths. They came to the area before we did and moved into Dene […]
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I’m taking a break from my series of posts on the new culture scan, in part because I need to do some more work on the documentation over the next few days and a couple of long haul flights will allow me reflective time to complete that task. The schedule is pretty fraught with my […]
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