humor – Page 4 – John D Burns

Things to Come

In the deep darkness waves of rain sweep down the glen, battering the hills, bouncing pebbles off the tracks and swelling the engorged [...]

June 19, 2014johndburns 4

Everything has just gone pear shaped. I hit the ground with an emphatic thud. My legs float skywards and I can see the clouds [...]

May 16, 2014johndburns 12

It’s all very hush, hush. I’ve issued conflicting information on which Scottish mountain I’m going to camp on to confuse the opposition. As [...]

April 10, 2014johndburns 22

The large black Labrador shuffled uncomfortably in front of the fire. He was, as is typical of his kind, an expert human watcher [...]

March 16, 2014John D Burns 20

The Iron Lodge is behind me, once a proud place, the lodge now languishes with an aura of genteel decay. Light fittings dangle [...]

January 15, 2014johndburns 22

This far North, in January, it never really gets light. I can see the sun peeping over the tops of the hills that [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

September 18, 2013johndburns 10

Now this is going to hurt. I think you can say, with some certainty, that if you sent off from the little seaside [...]

August 26, 2013johndburns 6

Over recent months I’ve taken to the road heading about the Highlands on my road bike. Here’s one of my favourite runs from [...]