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Piers Meynell
@pmeynell.bsky.social
NHS lab tech, ex student nurse and web dev, vasculitis.
No, I think I'll investigate VPNs instead. Less that this is an afront to the sanctity of my salacious choice in pornography and more that I have absolutely no faith in the third parties who handle the data. This is a huge data breach waiting to happen.
July 25, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Words to live by. Not a fan of tagging, but murals and the like appeal.
May 19, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Not quite the end in site (as a member I parked for free at the nearby #NationalTrust carpark a mile or so down the road), #StoreyArms emerging from the fog. Beyond the blisters on my heels, I really enjoyed things. Though in future I think I might pick clearer conditions/invest in a GPS.
November 11, 2024 at 9:37 AM
The cairn that marks the summit. Have mixed feelings about people constructing such on beaches and mountains. But in this case it does serve a purpose, for whatever reason the Trig point isn't on the summit which is marked by this small cairn and in this dense fog it was a useful reference.
November 11, 2024 at 9:37 AM
#wildcamping has unfortunately gotten a bad reputation following #covid with people limited in air travel looking for holidays in the UK. Whether through ignorance or just not caring, leaving a mess behind, lighting open fires etc. You wouldn't know I'd been there #leaveNoTrace Glad I had a compass.
November 11, 2024 at 9:37 AM
With the fog getting thicker I decided to stop looking for the trig point, which a bit unusually isn't on the summit. Having reached some flat dry ground decided to camp for the night. You're not missing much in this tent in the darkness, visibility before sunset was only perhaps 30m.
November 11, 2024 at 9:37 AM
The path is fairly indistinct at times, at least compared to what is apparently described as a motorway up Pen Y Fan, but it is there. It still wasn't that foggy on Fan Fawr, though that was soon to change and I was rather glad that I'd spent a little time learning to use a map and compass.
November 11, 2024 at 9:37 AM
Looking down through the mist at the Beacons Reservoir. I should have perhaps paid greater heed to the low cloud base on the mountain opposite, #CefnCrew. The reservoir itself looks worth a walk about itself.
November 11, 2024 at 9:37 AM
I followed route 14 of the #OrdnanceSurvey Guide "Outstanding Circular Walks: Brecon Beacons". While its only listed as taking about three hours and 4.5 miles as unfit as I am and hiking for the first time it took me considerably longer.
November 11, 2024 at 9:37 AM
With uncertainties in my health I try to hoard annual leave, travel and what most would consider a normal holiday isn't an option for me anyway., however I need to use some up. I've been wanting to #wildcamp for sometime, this weekend I hiked up a #FanFawr in the #BreconBeacons and camped overnight.
November 11, 2024 at 9:37 AM
I have to wear an FFP3 mask at all times indoors. That means lunch at work is generally in my car or on the steps of a hospital back up generator. Working across sites there are some rather nicer spots. A bench hidden in a glade of the shade of some trees, sharing my lunch with birds and squirrels.
August 16, 2024 at 12:34 PM
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September 20, 2023 at 10:21 AM