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Swithering
It's a good word, that. Here's a learned exposition on it.It's a word that was pressed into frequent service last Saturday when me and Andy set off early(ish) doors to have a go at Carn Bhac. We were...
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Blue
We lost the wee cat today. She had held on to her quality of life remarkably well, given the diagnosis nearly three years ago, but it all got a bit too much for her this morning.Pets. Sigh.
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So, what it is, is...
Over recent months I had clocked that the Wee Black Dug was not quite as indefatigable when it came to Munro bagging as she used to be. After a good 6 hour walk, when she jumped out of the car at the...
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Train and Truck
Last winter - from December onwards at least - was a complete washout as far as hillwalking went, and consequently postings on here were sporadic. Compared to how infrequently I trouble Blogger these...
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Saturday night and Sunday morning; and then later on Sunday morning.
We had persuaded ourselves - on the basis of no evidence whatsoever, in truth - that the Sheffield gig was going to be very much along the lines of the King Tut's epic a few months earlier, and that...
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Rehab...
So, the WBD coped with Meikle Bin two weeks back; the longish on-lead road walks continue apace, and the question last Saturday was how to try and move things forward.The answer - as it often is with...
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If it was going to be up for more than a few days, I'd footer about more with the header. As it were.In the meantime, for any poor misguided souls who don't already hang on my every Facebook post, here...
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Beinn a'Chrulaiste
It wasn't until I diligently trawled through my comprehensive state of the art hillwalk record-keeping system (the search feature on this blog) that I realised it was as long as 18 months ago that me...
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Both ends...
Jorja on Meall Dearg, at one end of the Aonach Eagach...Jorja on Sgorr nam Fiannaidh, at the other end of same...Even if the weather conditions weren't a bit of a giveaway, I'm not going to pretend...
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Flow
There's a variety of aspects about hillwalking that I enjoy, some perhaps less obvious than others.As a f'rinstance, I'm not one for leaving the packing to the last minute, thus scurrying around...
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Anti-clockwise
Last Monday was the third time I've been to Invervar for a walk on the hills that lie on the Chesthill Estate. Both previous visits were eight years ago. On the first adventure, I met a couple of other...
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Near coincidence.
I've maybe mentioned before on the blog that the primary reason that I continue to pay £10 each year to Munromagic is that it kind of makes me record hillwalk details soon after the event. I'm a man...
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Third time's a charm
Forgive the unorthodox slang title, but I'm working my way through the final season DVD of Sons of Anarchy, and I feel all...transatlantic.Yesterday saw me and Andy manage, after two false starts, to...
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Beinn Fhada, or Ben Attow
Or, that big hill right at the furthest away end of Glen Shiel.As I said to Andy earlier today, if I hadn't had Molly in the car, I'd have been sorely tempted to turn around about 15 minutes before I...
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A game of two halves
Last November saw me and Andy head for Victoria Bridge with a view to engaging with a portion of the Black Mount. As far as I know the term/description also encompasses Meall a' Bhuiridh and Creise,...
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A' Ghlas-bheinn
I spent a good hour or so last night, preparing a top quality post with hilarious references to Gilbert & Sullivan songs intended to give a flavour of just how wet this hillwalk was last Saturday,...
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Mount Battock
The weather was forecast to be uniformly depressing last weekend, but there was the promise of a rain free window (at least in the earlier part of the day) around the Angus glens. We've done Mount Keen...
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Article 6
Hmm.If anything was likely to prompt me to get this dusty old cupboard organised and open for inspection, it was probably an undeniably fairly imminent changing of the guard.Jorja'll be 16 years old...
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If you can't have a bit of a celebration for your sixteenth birthday, things have come to a pretty pass.That's a year now that I'd been telling folk who inquired after the age of the, um, Wee Greying...
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Tinternet tells you that the crossbreeding of the labrador retriever and German wire haired pointer can - if you're lucky - result in a remarkably fine HPR (hunt, point, retrieve) animal.Now, I know...
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Return to Meikle Bin
Somewhat oddly, the Forestry Commision website had said a while back that the hill would be "closed" from mid-February until 31 Mach. There was no actual explanation given, but the map they referred to...
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Five months...
...since the pup arrived, and throughout my tablet has sat peacefully on the bedside table - sometimes resting, sometimes charging, but always minding its own business.The new dug might indeed be...
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Catch Up
Computers - what are they like, eh? Oh, and "passwords" for your...computer stuff. Those are a pain in the arse as well.I'm just thankful I've got a guy for that sort of thing.In all events, here's...
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