AN OUTDOOR LIFE

Part of the rocky dragon's back that runs inland from Roch across North Pembrokeshire, Plumstone Mountain is a dramatic jumble of rhyolite blocks that cries out to be climbed on. Thirty years ago the Open Spaces Society ( Britain's oldest national conservation body) won an access victory here over farmers who were unlawfully fencing-off common land... and it is known locally as a mountain, even though it's only 170m above sea level.  Sent from my Blueberry  ®  mobile device

It is not always necessary or possible to go into the outdoors and on these occasions we can still feel the power and benefit of the outdoors once we have found peaceful oases tucked away in the urban environment. Spending time in these places will be a restorative process once they have been located in your neighbourhood and follow in the tradition of Buddhist temples and other spiritual havens used by native people all over the world.  Sent from my Blueberry  ®  mobile device

The surface of the flowing waters of the River Cleddau in the last few moments of daylight illustrating the extraordinary variety of texture, shade and light created by the slope and configuration of the river bed. Painting pretty patterns on the surface of the water above, with surges, boils and ripples lower down revealing the outlying advances of the incoming tide. Sent from my Blueberry  ®  mobile device

It is over a month since the first puffins of this season have been seen returning to Skomer Island. On the 16th of April puffins landed on the island and on Sunday 2nd of April approximately 7,300 puffins were gathered in North Haven. This was the opening day of the season for visitors, who would have been able to marvel at the antics of the "sea parrot" returning from over-wintering in the North Atlantic as part of a life-style that is just becoming to be understood. Only very recently have tracking devices been miniaturised sufficiently to enable this small bird to be monitored.  Sent from my Blueberry  ®  mobile device

Spring lambs are far too small for eating, so all the lambs in the butchers for Easter will have been born over the winter and been fed on animal feeds of undisclosed origins. This process will impair the flavour of their meat - far tastier is late-season lamb, which will have been properly grass-fed throughout their short frolic-full lives out in the fields. Sent from my Blueberry  ®  mobile device

This is the kind of view, imbibed in ordinariness, that instills homesickness when away from home, especially abroad. Similarly viewing on satellite TV a programme with Delia Smith preparing Sunday lunch.  Sent from my Blueberry  ®  mobile device