Part of being in Mountain Rescue is the commitment. The commitment to carry a pager with you and respond when you can, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, every single day of the year. Even Christmas day. Wherever I go, the pager goes. It goes on vibrate sometimes, other times it even goes […]
It’s cold. I’m just recovering from the flu and still feeling a bit naff, but when the pager goes off I don’t hesitate and jump into my Discovery and plough through the snow. I stop at base and we’re told that the road to the RV is closed to all bar 4×4’s. Both team Landrovers […]
It’s been a long weekend and mostly without Internet. I was up in Aberystwyth all weekend spending time with Sean. It was a nice weekend, even though we spent all of Saturday working on Sean’s latest production. Last weeks’ interview with South Wales Police went well – I hadn’t heard anything by the time I […]
Last September I blogged about a search that we had in Tycroes in West Wales. According to the BBC the case just reached court. Some of the things in that article are quite rough to have to read. The violence with which he beat her seems unbelievable given that while we were searching it rapidly became […]
Hayfever is hitting me pretty hard this year – I’ve had a number of people comment that they’re finding it difficult to cope as well, so it looks like there’s seriously potent pollen out there for some reason. As a result, I’ve not been spending much time outdoors, but I decided to partake in this […]
First responders seems to be quietening down at the moment and Mountain Rescue’s getting busier! We’re up to our forty-something-th callout already this year – we’re well on track to be amongst the busiest teams in the country and this weekend’s contributing heavily to that number. Last night, just after midnight, while Sean and I […]
The past few weeks have been mostly unbroken by shrill beeping of the pager with the exception of the regular Thursday night tests. That is, until Saturday. And it’s been a bizarre series of callouts. After doing my Ambulance shift on Saturday, I headed up to Aberystwyth. Sean and I headed out to a Greek […]
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I’ve been rather apathetic about my blogging recently, sorry about that. I had a pretty busy week last week, including a search for a misper in Mountain Ash on Thursday which left me exhausted for Friday. Friday night was on shift with the first responders right through until Saturday night and what a busy shift […]