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Yes, the Welsh Assembly have changed the rules and regulations yet again and the changes once again make no sense. But the good news is we are back and offering up our Programme Of Walks In Wales Lawyers are discussing the legality of any law drawn up on the hoof and changed so often as to make it unreasonable for a member of the public to know the fine detail. Criminalising someone for not reading reams of new guidelines is unacceptable and will be the basis for challenges in court against the totality of the lockdowns and of individual fines.  The insanity of releasing us all from lockdown is plain for all to see given that Merthyr Tydfil is currently the most diseased area of the UK. The reasoning behind putting us into local lockdowns a month or so ago is thrown out of the window and rates of infection are...

Back in May 2015 when Wales Outdoors was primarily and Adventure Activity provider we were once again contacted by the BBC and tasked with providing the technical expertise for their show, hosted by Andrew 'Freddie' Flintoff, 'Ultimate Hell'. It was a difficult piece to work on, with the BBC bringing in a huge team and the filming taking far longer than either planned or it should. The BBC then took an age to pay up for the Wales Outdoors teams time. There were multiple managers, so for the oversight of safety there were army guys, the Wales Outdoors team and another manager brought in for who knows what reason. Given the brief and left to our own devices Wales Outdoors could have delivered the footage for a fraction of the cost and in a fraction of the time. But then, we were working with the BBC where 7am through to...

3: Are you prepared to write to charities and ask for a self imposed limit of 20 max participants in any event? This I have arbitrarily imposed and I think it is a good starting point. Further discussion on numbers could be had but I set 20 as my limit and I break that group into two and we get along just fine. I only ever attend mid week or for sunset or sunrise walks. So…

I'm going to keep this short but if you want shorter go get your FREE badge at the end of this post! Whilst some have been on furlough and waiting patiently to see if their job would be there for them at the end of the covid crisis and while the small business owners that are the backbone of the UK economy are doing their damnedest to keep their heads above the sea of rules and laws that ebb and flow like a toxic ocean some with secure jobs in government have been developing yet another badge for tourism business' to wear. Here it is... I've no idea what hurdles are in place for business' to jump over to get one of these, maybe it's an inspection, maybe a few boxes to tick on a form. But the audacity and condescension and absolute waste of public money at a time...

Wales Outdoors welcomes the English back to Wales and invite the English to Join Us! for one of our wonderful walks... Yes, as of the middle of next week the English will be driving into Wales for rest and recreation once again. How generous of their governors to allow the residents of England such freedoms... Of course, this relaxation of the prison planet rules goes both ways and the Welsh are once again allowed to leave Internment Camp Cymru. I guess you have gathered that I am bitter... And I'll tell you why... The lies that the National and Welsh Governments have been peddling since prior to the first lockdown are destroying lives, will be responsible for the majority of the deaths in this 'crisis' and have crashed the economy. The cumulative effect of measures to fight Covid 19 will be to have permanently and fatally altered our society in...

THE MONDAY MOAN - A once a week spot for us to moan about the stuff that perhaps we should all be moaning about that little bit more...  Thompsons Park in Canton has been open, since the beginning of the first lockdown, 24 hours a day... Until now... A few weeks ago the council in their wisdom decided, without consultation with local residents and users of the park, to close it at a stupidly early 3.30pm. At the time this was almost 2 hours prior to dusk. I wrote to the council and asked the question... 'Why?' They said it was due to an increase in 'anti-social behaviour'. I wrote back asking for evidence, so the dates of incidence of said anti-social behaviour. They said that 'there had been two incidences of anti-social behaviour reported to the police between March and September 2020 but that they had been informed of...