Gummers How direct

Gummer’s How is one of the fells featured in Wainwright’s Outlying Fells of Lakeland book and therefore it features in my The Lakeland 365 project and I describe the fell here. I have visited it on a couple of occasions and have never been disappointed, fine views for little effort…

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Second Award for The Wainwrights in Colour Book

Proud and honoured to have been awarded the BBC Countryfile Magazine Book of the Year. To find out more information and to take up a Special Offer on book orders then click here. Thank you to everyone who took time to vote.

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Doing the double

BBC Countryfile Book of the Year

What can I say….. Many thanks to all of you who voted in the recent BBC Countryfile Magazine Awards. Thanks to your support and votes I am proud and honoured to announce that today I was informed that The Wainwrights in Colour Book took the accolade ahead of some other…

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In the finals…..again.

BBC Countryfile Magazine awards 2017

Firstly, let me aplogise for the lack of blog posts and input to my social media channels over the last few weeks. Just after Christmas I fell under the bug that has been going around and it really took it out of me (it must be something to do with…

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I WON!

TGO Book of the year 2017

 Well, what can I say? Yesterday was a day of mixed emotions when the winers of The Great Outdoor Magazine Readers Awards 2017 were announced and needless to say as you can tell form the post heading, I WON! Honoured, proud and not to say somewhat surprised to say the…

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Being “in it to win it”

BBC Countryfile Magazine awards 2017

 Just like the Oscars and the BAFTA’s it seems as if the award season for books is focused at the same time of the year.  Firstly, thank you to all of you who took time to vote in the TGO Reader Awards (hopefully for The Wainwrights in Colour) the competition…

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The news is spreading….

Andy Beck press cuttings

No one could have told me just how time consuming it would be to sell The Wainwrights in Colour book after publication- but then no one has produced a book quite like this. Since May my time has been almost totally given over to the continual promotion and selling of…

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Exciting times continue.

TGO Awards 2017

Apologies for the lack of recent posts on this site recently. Not only am I still very involved with The Wainwrights in Colour Book, giving talks and presentations but also doing the background research on the next project. More news on that will follow shortly. However, I am honoured to…

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And the winner could be……

TGO awards 2017

Well it is certainly busy here at the minute, things have hardly calmed down since The Wainwrights in Colour Book was launched back in May. The intervening five months have seen me fulfilling all the orders for the book both from private individuals as well as multiple orders from the…

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Last of the many

Cockermouth-MRT

Yet another busy week has gone by but with a special twist. These weeks are still busy with all things focused on The Wainwrights in Colour Book, any chance of a holiday hasn’t come over the horizon yet but needs must. The highest priority is to fulfill orders and commitments…

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