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How to get cheaper gear – Legally

March 26, 2013johndburns 6

It’s not that I don’t trust technology it’s just that most of the time I don’t understand it. It’s the pace of change [...]

I was out today in the frozen Cairngorms today and took some photos in black and white and in colour. I’m beginning to enjoy the [...]

March 19, 2013John D Burns 38

There is something special in the stillness of a winter’s night, when frost renders the burns silent and dusts the grass with transient [...]

March 15, 2013John D Burns 4

Chicken soup, why you shouldn’t burn down a bothy and the wonders of coal. All hot suff as I visit another remote Highland bothy [...]

Chicken soup, why you shouldn’t burn down a bothy and the wonders of coal. All hot suff as I visit another remote Highland bothy [...]

March 2, 2013John D Burns 2

My latest audio podcast. a virtual walk into Kinbreack Bothy http://johndburns.podomatic.com/player/web/2013-03-02T01_06_49-08_00 [...]

February 24, 2013johndburns 14

I’m afraid there’s no way round it. I’m going to have to tell you, and you, dear reader, are just going to have [...]

A challenge was laid down and, as ever, I couldn’t resist it. Here is a little 15 min audio version of my blog [...]

I’m late, an hour late arriving on the ridge that overlooks Bearnais bothy. An hour shouldn’t matter much, but this hour does because [...]

Last weekend I was alone in the Scottish mountains. At one point I was high on a narrow ridge of windblown snow with [...]