A brief assessment of the R-Shield Respilon 11 Jun 2019 3 min read Newsletter A new company, R-Shield, launched a Kickstarter to make a wearable air filter, that incorporates a fancy nano-thingy to filter the air you breath. As a new company, offering a new
Features missing from the Suunto Spartan range 28 Dec 2017 3 min read Newsletter Suunto pulled through (perhaps…) a ‘replatforming’, and are merrily selling their Spartan line of watches. This started with the Ultra…
Swimming with the Arc’Teryx Drypack 25 22 Sep 2017 1 min read Newsletter A few years ago, I was on a kayaking trip with a former Royal Marine: he described his fourteen years of service as fourteen years of…
Camping at BUMM1 15 Aug 2017 1 min read Newsletter Overlooking Lake Sonoma is Bummer Hill, which has two hike-to campgrounds on it, BUMM1 and BUMM2. All recreation.gov tells the visitor…
Vegan Crêpe 27 Jul 2017 1 min read Newsletter Adapted from a recipe I wrote in 2000, adapted from another recipe and so on, because vegans do it better.