The B29 “Overexposed” crash site from Snake Pass

This Peak District plane crash site features in the excellent latest Rivers of London novel, “Amongst Our Weapons” by Ben Aaronovitch. It crossed my Instagram feed a week or so ago, and then after I started planning the walk I saw Manchester Finest had written up a walk, Bleaklow: Downed Warplanes, UFO Moorlands, and a …

Pots & Pans from The Church Inn, Pobgreen

Walked this on 7 July, with a friend. It’s been about ten years since the last time I was up here. It’s a lovely walk: a steep climb at the start, but then you just bimble around from view to view on the (mostly) flat top. The walk is from “The Pennine Divide” by Andrew …

Froggatt Edge and Padley Gorge

I decided to do this one yesterday, on the hottest day of the year so far. Perhaps not my most sensible decision. I further decided to take in a bit of Froggat Edge, so I could check out the stone circle, rather than sticking to cooler woodland paths! A fine walk, nonetheless. Padley Gorge is …

Lud’s Church and The Roaches

My walk on 7 June roughly followed Northern Stroll’s route. While I was walking I kept crossing paths with a school group, and overheard the teacher telling them about the wallaby sightings in the woods and up on the roaches, you can read about this story (legend?) in “the English moor where wallabies roam“. Apparently …

Count and sort in Google Sheets using QUERY()

When I’ve pulled some data into Google Sheets I often want a way to quickly chart the count of something, maybe it’s support tickets and I want to chart the incidence of particular tags or count tickets for each customer. In this situation I want a nice neat chart showing from ordered data.

Walkerwood Reservoir, Harridge Pike, and Wild Bank

I did this walk some years back and don’t remember it particularly fondly, but today it was just beautiful. The light was a low, golden, winter sunshine, and everything looked magical. Next time I do this walk, where I turn up north towards Harridge Pike I’ll try the west side of Dry Clough rather than …

In my ears

For a while now I’ve been meaning to post about these three great podcasts I’ve had on regular rotation for the last few months since starting running again. The blend is really working for me, and giving this mix some longevity: current affairs slanted to the serious (The Intelligence) and the curious (Kottke Ride Home), …

🌡 Log My Temperature – Siri Shortcut

Due to “reasons”, taking my temperature every morning has become commonplace. I’ve worked out a Siri Shortcut to log the temperature, check the data and alert me to changes. If you’re interested, and have an iPhone (the shortcut relies on the Health app, so I don’t think it will work on iPad), you can download …

On flexibility in achieving your vision…

I’ve been using a quote in roadmap presentations as a nod to the inevitability of change: “No plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first contact with the main hostile force.” – Helmuth von Moltke the Elder Reading the Wikipedia page for Helmuth, I now learn he was the creator of a new …