We will be extending our Opening Hours again this year so with a great weather forecast in the offing there is no need for you to rush off the hills to secure that favourite piece of cake or dine on one of our specials with a glass of wine or refreshing beer. So here are those opening hours:- Good Friday, Saturday & Easter Sunday: 07:30 to 20:00 Easter Monday: 07:30 to 18:00 Just remember that

The weekend before last saw me up in The Lakes for another road race, the Coniston 14 which is what it says, a 14 mile road race around Lake Coniston starting & finishing in Coniston where a good friend, Rob, whom I met in Nepal in 2012 lives. Having run the route at leisure in 2016 the day after Rob had helped me complete the Wainwright’s I had some idea of what I was letting

Thank you Nick, I think (as in Livesey). Having come up with my route for this years charity run in aid of Reach Out for Nepal & loosely calculating it’s stats from the Harvey’s Snowdonia North Map, Nick kindly offered to plot the route on his computerised mapping system (aka something I’m not really sure what it’s called) so get some more accurate stats. He’s recently e-mailed his findings:- Paul’s Guess: 41.9 Miles. Nick’s findings

I had the title for this blog all sorted a few days ago, it was to be ‘Running away from age’ & would focus on my predictably annual birthday run. However I am never too old to learn (despite admittedly failing to frequently) & upon completing the reading of a 2nd memorable book last night, in the space of less than a fortnight, the blog & it’s title just re-wrote itself instantly, so here goes,

Details of this year’ event have just been updated on the Events page of our web-site, for full details simply click on the page & go to 22nd June 2019. In addition we now have 3 New signed photographic prints by Doug Scott displayed at the Café, these are signed by Doug & Chris Bonnington & can be purchased on a first come first served basis with all proceeds going direct to Community Action Nepal