Over the last few weeks David has been creating new web content for the Countryside Council for Wales (CCW). "The agency will be re-launching its website later in the year," he says, "and I'm just finishing off some pages on environmental change. You get to hear some astonishing statistics - until tackling these pages, for instance, I didn't know that Snowdon's winter snowfall is down by a third in just the last ten years!"

Next month, the CCW project turns its attention to enjoying the countryside. Keen to practise what he's preaching, David will be crossing the Solent as part of his contract to re-walk routes for the AA’s popular 50 Walks in Hampshire & the Isle of Wight. "These routes will give me a new slant on my favourite walking destination," says David, who revised his own Isle of Wight title in Jarrold's Short Walks series last spring.

But it's not all fresh air and excercise. "Back in the office, my regular PR work for the Dever Society and the Campaign to Protect Rural England will mop up any spare time," says David. "With luck, I'll be able to schedule that for days when the sun's gone in!"