The gift of yourself must be included on Giving Tuesday

December is here and we have been out and about. We had a delicious lunch on the terrace of a seafront café, overlooking the sandy beach at Garrucha. There were more clouds about today but only the high wispy ones; the sun shone through and it was lovely and warm in the sunshine. Now, Tuesday …

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Rescuers’ story stirs up web interest

  Ogwen Valley team members prepare to rescue trapped climbers Oh wow. What a fantastic three days since this blog on Saturday featured the work of the UK’s volunteer mountain rescue teams. It has been tweeted, retweeted, appeared on other social media and has generated a wonderful reaction. I just hope it helps the Llanberis …

Hero volunteers need support

              Llanberis Mountain Rescue Team using stretcher to remove casualty to safety. Everybody has their own ideas about what makes someone a hero and, of course I have tremendous respect for everyone doing difficult and often dangerous jobs in the armed forces and the main emergency services – police, …