Walking ice and fire
I’ve wasted my life. Every now and again you meet someone who makes you realise how little you’ve achieved. Okay, so I’ve climbed
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travel
Fishing with my father
The world is full of giants. They lumber about me and I, at four years, scamper between their legs waiting for the occasional
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Returning to Gelder Shiel Bothy
Ah! there my young footsteps in infancy, wander’d: My cap was the bonnet, my cloak was the plaid; On chieftains, long perish’d, my
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The night the Bothy burned
As soon as I said it, I felt the atmosphere change. It had been warm and cosy in the little Bothy, and the
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Bothies, Bikes and Bogs
I can see the bothy from here. It’s tantalisingly close. In fact I’ve been able to see the bothy for quite a while.
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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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Napalm, the gardener’s friend.
I’m going to be brave and step into the unknown. I’m about to attempt the impossible. I don’t know if it can be
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Arriving Nowhere
When I got off the ferry I thought there had been some mistake. The road simply ran into the sea and all I
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Trains from Hell
I dread rail trips, they fill me with horror. It’s not the trip itself, anyone can sit on a train staring out of
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