humour – Page 9 – John D Burns

I’m so excited – I’ve been benighted!

It finally happened, after over thirty years on the hills, an enforced bivi! I think I’m pushing back the frontiers of incompetence now. [...]

I wasn’t going to tell you about this but, after giving the matter some thought, I decided that, in the interests of [...]

Here, glorious full colour sound is my audio podcast about making soup on a primus stove. The outcome is, unintentionally funny but only [...]

Every now and again life just goes pear shaped. It happens on a fairly regular basis for me and I’ve no reason to [...]

I’ve been looking at a lot of geo-porn recently. In moments of weakness I’ve been fantasising about what it would be like to [...]

“We’re going to the pub!” Mr Jones stated with unusual vehemence, standing outside the tent on the small Highland campsite. “Oh yes,” I [...]

I’ve been a good boy this weekend. I made some wholemeal bread on Saturday, went walking in Glen Affric on Sunday and, if [...]

I have a theory. It may be a bit crackpot but at the end of this little blog I’m sure you’ll agree that [...]

I’m willing to bet that over the last few weeks at least a handful of observant people will have informed you, with dour [...]

I’ve given up the bottle. Never again will I take a swig of cool refreshing liquid from the neck of my flask and [...]