Ulog 24: Training to be a Mountain Leader
If you haven’t heard much from me over the past couple of weeks, it’s because I’ve been spending most of…
November 12, 2018
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Ramblings and Scramblings
Hillwalking, climbing and blethering
A licence to murder
My granddad’s funeral, in 1979, was the first funeral I’d attended for anyone really close. I was 17, and it…
November 9, 2018
Who took the anti-establishment out of pop music?
Pop music has become bland, predictable and over-produced… in my opinion! Even the “old record shows” aimed at people in…
November 4, 2018
Ulog 23: Not-so-serious Bagging! Two lovely Corbetts in the Orchy hills
I’ve been bagging Munros (mountains with an altitude of at least 3,000 feet), and with 99 in the bag, I’m…
November 2, 2018
Freedom of Love: When forbidden love is a catalyst for change
The subject of this week’s #FreedomFriday, a weekly Steemit challenge set by @eaglespirit, is Freedom of Love. As the daughter…
October 26, 2018
Five from the Seventies, Part One: an @slobberchops challenge!
Following on from the great Six from the Sixties challenge, @slobberchops came up with a new way to tackle the…
October 22, 2018
Ulog 22: Serious Bagging – closing in on my goal!
To be perfectly honest, I had thought this walk would be a little bit dull, and I would probably never…
October 22, 2018
Freedom of sexuality: liberation or just another moral code?
Freedom of sexuality is the theme for this week’s #freedomfriday challenge, set by @eaglespirit, and the very phrase gets the…
October 19, 2018
The Bewitching Box has lost its spell!
Are you a TV addict? I used to be! About 10 or 15 years ago, I used to regularly watch…
October 15, 2018
Ulog 21: Serious Bagging – a bit of a setback!
My plan last Wednesday was to do the “Ring of Steall”, a very strenuous walk that takes in four Munros,…
October 13, 2018