bothy – Page 10 – John D Burns

Good Reads for Bad Days

December 28, 2013johndburns 6

I’m writing this in the little blip that exists in all our lives between Christmas and new Year. It’s like a temporary truce [...]

December 22, 2013John D Burns 36

I’m in the forest, it’s dark, I’m on a path that didn’t exist when they made the map I’m using. I can see [...]

December 11, 2013johndburns 8

This is the guy I met on that wet day in Glencoul. See my previous two posts. Cotton Joe at the end of [...]

November 24, 2013John D Burns 28

Part two of my Glencoul odyssey Sometimes you know in advance that things are not going to go your way. My plan is [...]

November 16, 2013John D Burns 5

It’s dark and I’m miles from anywhere in one of the Highland’s remotest glens, Glencoul, and the bothy in nowhere to be seen. [...]

November 1, 2013johndburns 10

I’ve been trying to ignore it for a while but now I’ve had to accept the something is happening “down below.” My inner [...]

July 9, 2013John D Burns 7

I’m getting soft, I realise, as I stand looking at the icy waters and contemplating the idea that I may actually have to [...]

June 9, 2013johndburns 24

Everything had been fine until I’d answered that question but now a silence hung in the air like a malevolent fart. I sucked [...]

May 11, 2013johndburns 18

The moment I walked into the bothy I could tell something was wrong, I could feel the tension in the atmosphere. The last [...]

April 7, 2013johndburns 8

I’m doubled up over my walking poles, high on a snow slope, gasping for air like a goldfish plucked from its tank. My [...]