Like most people I’m a sucker for the end of season ski sales, and last year I picked up a good deal in the form of a pair of Head Vector LTD boots. They fitted me pretty nicely straight from the box so I bought ‘em, skied in ‘em for a few days at the [...]

If you’ve ridden the Chapelet chair in Courchevel 1650 or skied the slopes beneath you’ll probably have seen the famous ‘Forked Tree’ sitting proudly on a ridge above the lift. And you may have even, probably unawares, seen someone blasting down the powder beneath the tree on a pair of skis named after said arboreal [...]

For most of us a heliski trip is a once in a lifetime event – actually, no, for most people a heliski trip is a nonce in a lifetime event. But there are some wealthy individuals who get to enjoy this supreme form of skiing on a regular basis – annually, perhaps even bi-annually.

And [...]

Well, today I enjoyed my best day of piste skiing this season. An early start saw me and my mate Duncan at the top of ‘M’ piste in Courchevel 1850 pretty much before anyone else had been down it, and huge grins spread across our faces as we beheld 580 vertical metres of immaculately groomed, [...]

At the London Ski Show back in October I bumped into fellow Yorkshire natives James and Gemma Greenway who invited me to visit them this winter at their business Green Mountain Chalets in St. Martin de Belleville, and earlier this week I finally got the chance to ski over from La Tania with my girlfriend [...]

My mornings are being ruined lately by the Chris Evans Breakfast Show on Radio 2. The carrot topped one can be irritating at the best of times, but his manic promotion of the execrable Christmas single by the Military Wives is doing my head in – and that of my girlfriend Claire. So much so [...]

I guess that these days we all have our dress codes – indeed, come to think of it society has always been thus. Here in Pembrokeshire, for example, you’ll see everything from surf-style attire on the local beaches to the cheap trainers, baggy trackie bottoms, logo-ed sweatshirt and tats of the obese chavs of Milford [...]

My good colleague and fellow curmudgeonly northerner Mr. M. Axelby Esq recently informed me of the following notice he had observed whilst suffering the unfortunate experience, to use a fine phrase from that splendid movie ‘Withnail and I’, of finding himself ‘on holiday by mistake’ in Boscombe.

Said notice informs one and all that ‘Boscombe [...]

Many who read this blog – ok, the few who read this blog – will like me be keen winter sports enthusiasts who probably have various old, unused bits of kit lying around the loft, the shed or under the bed.

Old ski boots, old skis, gloves or hats you don’t use any more – [...]

Just take a moment, if you will, to read the paragraph at the end of this blog, which is the current long term weather forecast from the Met Office. I think even Dr Liam Fox MP would be hard pressed to come up with something more ambiguous.

What is the point of a weather forecast [...]