Kinder Scout in the rain - but BBC Radio Newcastle first

Tomorrow I leave the sleepy village of Edale in North Derbyshire and walk to Crowden. This takes in Kinder Scout - a formidable peak ascended by the famous Jacobs Ladder. A long walk - probably in rain ... looking forward to it!
If you want to catch up with my thoughts on the coming "21 days long trek to Hexham" then tune in to BBC Radio Newcastle at 7.50 tomorrow morning - I am doing the breakfast show

In Sheffield

In 2011 both myself and my Labour colleague Paul Blomfield, the MP for Sheffield Central suffered brain tumours. Both of us have made a good recovery. Today I have travelled north to Sheffield before starting the walk tomorrow. Paul and I were guests on BBC Radio Sheffield drivetime show this afternoon with BBC DJ Howie Pressman [brother of the Sheffield Wednesday former goalkeeper]. This evening we are jointly doing an event with Headway in Sheffield.
I am walking for 21 days - Paul and his wife and a few others are doing day 1 with me tomorrow. Looking forward to it.

Olympic ceremony and cycle race

What a great Olympic Opening Ceremony! Loved the Bond spoof - particularly the corgi doing a forward roll in excitement at seeing 007. Thought the industrial revolution section amazing and loved Brunel / Branagh, Bean and so much more. Am now stuck in Westminster clearing my desk but managed to get out yesterday to watch some of the cycle road race - gutted for Cavendish and the rest of the British Team.