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
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scotland
Edinburgh Remembers World War One
A couple of days ago another procession wound it’s way past the jugglers, the clowns and tired comedians who throng Edinburgh’s Royal Mile.
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Mallory: Beyond Everest
The Edinburgh Fringe is almost upon us and my blog will change for a while when I’m there as my life will be
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Confessions of a Mountain Bike Novice
Until a couple of weeks ago I was a mountain bike virgin. I saw people on them but had never ridden one. Now
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Sign of the Times
In one of my previous posts http://johndburns.wordpress.com/2014/01/15/true-north/ I made some comments at the expense of Scotways previously known as the Scottish Rights of Way
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Lessons on mountain biking or How Not to get to a bothy
Everything has just gone pear shaped. I hit the ground with an emphatic thud. My legs float skywards and I can see the clouds
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Mallory – Beyond Everest
My one man play about George Mallory is in rehearsal right now. It’s hard work but we are getting there. The play is
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Maol Bhudhie – episode 2
(If you go two episodes back in the blog you can read the first instalment Judgement Day) It’s the morning after the walk
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Folk Lost on the Hill
The large black Labrador shuffled uncomfortably in front of the fire. He was, as is typical of his kind, an expert human watcher
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Judgement Day
The Iron Lodge is behind me, once a proud place, the lodge now languishes with an aura of genteel decay. Light fittings dangle
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