What I’m doing now

Last updated: 19 October 2026

1. Gran Canaria for the winter retreat

   I’m heading back to Las Palmas in November for the first time since 2020. If you’re heading there too, drop me a line.

2. Heatherstack

   In August I started a new company. Heatherstack is a web agency with a sustainability focus. You can find out more about it at www.heatherstack.com.

3. Licking my wounds after a rough couple of months

   Grand plans for hiking the Cleveland Way and Peaks of the Balkans had to go on ice after I suffered a series of bizarre health complications a couple of months ago. I’m well on the mend but still taking it steady as I build my strength back up and get back in shape. I’ll tackle some decent day hikes while on Gran Canaria and hope to tackle some or all of the GC section of the GR 131.

4. Developing a new website sustainability auditing tool

   Based on the W3C’s Web Sustainability Guidelines and I think a considerable advance on currently available tools, I’ll be soft-launching this new service at the Big Sustainability Expo at the end of October.

5. Building the Trail Almanac

   Development hasn’t been as swift as I’d like over the summer, but the all-singing, all-dancing directory of long-distance hiking trails continues to combine my passion for the outdoors and promoting dirtbag inclusivity with my data architecture and web skills.

6. Abandoning Windows once and for all – really this time

   After a successful retrial, I’m finally wiping the Windows partition and going full Linux. It’s been months since I booted into Windows, so this month, the partition is getting wiped.

7. Going to a few gigs

   Every now and then you go to a show and midway through realise something special’s happening. Willy Mason in Portsmouth last week was like that. It was a small show and the majority of the audience knew every word of every song. It was quite the communal celebration and Willy seemed genuinely touched by the love in the room.