Latest blog posts
The blog is the heart of this website, with content on a wide range of topics which interest me. The archives contain entries going back to 2004.
A wake-up call on the Niederhorn ridge
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Returning to the Gemmenalphorn for a timely reminder of the importance of staying fit.
The gift of rose-tinted glass
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What I work for, what I strive for, and the beauty which I see all around me almost every day
What It Is
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Finding out 33 years later that I song I love features Michael Stipe in the background.
Blog posts about hiking and walking
A wake-up call on the Niederhorn ridge
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Returning to the Gemmenalphorn for a timely reminder of the importance of staying fit.
Washing the stress away
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Letting the rain on a regular walk wash away the stresses of life.
Hard Knott from the pass road
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During our time in the Lake District in 2024, I did a lone hike to the top of the fell which I’ve been driving past ever since first visiting the region in the 1990s.
Lunch at the glacier
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Taking the cable-car to a traditional mountain restaurant below vast cliffs for a birthday treat.
Videos
Years of photography and drone flying have filled my archives with memories. This short film combines some of my best 2019 clips from Switzerland, Wales, and England.
A picturesque dog walk to the tidal island of Oronsay, off the coast of the Isle of Skye.
Lots of work stopped me from going out so much, but we did get in a great trip to canton Wallis.
Making more of an effort to publish moving pictures, including one from Dartmoor in June.
Places
Alness, Invergordon and the Cromarty Firth
The Cromarty Firth is an arm of the Moray Firth in Scotland, to which I’ve been regularly returning to visit family since 2010.
Faulensee
Faulensee is a small village on the shores of Lake Thun in Switzerland, which I have called home since 2011.
Lake District
A beautiful and mountainous region of lakes, fells and valleys in north-west England.
Ballenberg
A Swiss site to which historic buildings from all over the country have been painstakingly relocated.
Cudrefin
A small town and nature reserve on the south-eastern shore of Lake Neuchâtel.
Weissenau-Neuhaus
A nature reserve near Interlaken, on the shores of Lake Thun, to which we return frequently.
My life in the internet
I’ve been designing and creating websites and browser-based web applications for 30 years. Website projects using content management systems are the main focus of my professional career and I began contributing to the WordPress community as a theme and plugin developer, translation editor and WordCamp speaker and co-organizer in 2009.
