Here's a wee something in celebration of  International Mountain Day. I was born in the shadow of Ben Nevis, the UK's highest mountain. My grandparents used to take tourists to the summit of 'the......

Surely one of the greatest poems of the 20th Century, written by a man who operated out of the same dark corners of radio production at the BBC in Birmingham that I would inhabit......

I saw this today. The snow is pretty bad...I don't think people realise how bad it gets. That's about 3 feet deep. Good job it's a Volvo. Looks like I'm not going far today,......