Over the Stile https://ameilaa.com/ 2026-09-12T09:00:00Z The Stove That Would Not Lighthttps://ameilaa.com/posts/the-stove-that-would-not-light/2026-09-12T09:00:00ZA 17 km ridge walk in the first cold morning of autumn, and a gas stove that refused to cooperate at 4 °C. Bluebells and a Delaminated Solehttps://ameilaa.com/posts/bluebells-and-a-delaminated-sole/2026-05-03T09:00:00ZThe beech wood at its best, a 14 km circuit, and a boot sole that peeled away from the upper at kilometre nine. Twelve Kilometres in Freezing Foghttps://ameilaa.com/posts/twelve-kilometres-in-freezing-fog/2026-01-18T09:00:00ZA compass-and-count walk over the moor in fog so thick the dog disappeared at twenty paces, with a frozen sandwich for lunch. Clocks Back, Light Gonehttps://ameilaa.com/posts/clocks-back-light-gone/2025-10-26T09:00:00ZThe first weekend after the clocks change, a late start, a head torch with flat batteries and a descent finished in near darkness. Heat on the Open Hillhttps://ameilaa.com/posts/heat-on-the-open-hill/2025-07-06T09:00:00Z29 °C on the shadeless southern tops, two litres of water gone by one o’clock, and the case for starting at six. A Jacket Seam Gives Uphttps://ameilaa.com/posts/a-jacket-seam-gives-up/2024-11-10T09:00:00ZSix hours of steady rain on the woodland loop, and the slow discovery that my waterproof had stopped being one along the shoulder seam.