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Monday, 31 December 2007

Our 2007 Walking Year

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Time and Motion As I mentioned a while ago, this year I’ve written 165000 or so words on the subject of our walks (not on here, you’ll be p...
Saturday, 29 December 2007

The Outrageous Spoiling of Gayle E Bird

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- Paramo Cascade Trews - Mountain Equipment Microzip T Fleece - Extremities Powerstretch Gloves - Extremities Powerstretch beanie - Girly se...
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Friday, 21 December 2007

Keswick, Ambleside and Great Langdale

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The trip was mainly about Christmas shopping, but I had a plan. If the shopping could be completed on Wednesday then we could, perhaps, take...
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Wednesday, 19 December 2007

My Head Torch Is Missing...

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We're just about to leave to go up to the Lakes for a couple of days. Tonight we'll be camping. Being two days before the shortest d...
Tuesday, 18 December 2007

Rhinog Fawr

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On 17 December last year I walked up Rhinog Fawr. The rain that started falling as I had left Barmouth in the dark that morning was so contr...
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Friday, 14 December 2007

Holding Post - Two Views

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Here are a couple of photos from the last couple of days: Wednesday afternoon: Thursday morning: More to follow...
Monday, 10 December 2007

Waterproofs

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Last weekend, out in the Pumlumon hills, was a bit of a wet experience. Despite having bought my Paramo Velez smock at the beginning of Marc...
Tuesday, 4 December 2007

Pumlumon - Day 2

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It was a dark and stormy night and the rain came down in torrents … and I’ve already documented the result of those torrents of rain upon ou...
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Monday, 3 December 2007

Pumlumon - Day 1

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It’s been somewhat remiss of me not to have visited this area before as in the 1990s I lived in Aberystwyth for three years (during which pe...
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Sunday, 2 December 2007

Wendy Gets Wet in Wales

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With a weather forecast of heavy rain and strong winds, it seemed like an ideal opportunity to give Wendy (our Stephenson’s Warmlite 2R) her...
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Tuesday, 27 November 2007

Around the Coast of Britain

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A few weeks ago I read ‘Slow Coast Home’ by Josie Dew, which gives an account of Josie’s attempt (which turned out to be broken and curtaile...
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Monday, 19 November 2007

Gosh I Can Waffle On!

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It used to be that every time we went away anywhere, whether on holiday, for a weekend or just for a walk, I would, if possible, send a deta...
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Sunday, 18 November 2007

Snow and Stuff

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As I drove home tonight, the BBC weather on the wireless was telling me that there was the chance of sleet on high ground. That forecast see...
Saturday, 17 November 2007

Random Witterings

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Stiles Progress has been made on my mission to get some of Rights of Way access issues around here resolved, insofar as I now have the con...
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Wednesday, 14 November 2007

The Wrekin

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With both of us remembering our shoes today, our delayed plan came to fruition. We walked up the Wrekin - a hill that stands alone in a sea ...
Tuesday, 13 November 2007

The Walk That Wasn't

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On Sunday we went for a walk! (Yes that did deserve an exclamation mark considering recent performance.) It wasn’t really worthy of any note...
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Tuesday, 6 November 2007

The Mind Boggles

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I've still got nothing relevant to talk about (see post below), but I was just having a quick look at my blog stats, to see how many peo...
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Saturday, 27 October 2007

And It's All Gone Quiet Over There...

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Sorry for the lack of anything to say this week. A couple of the poorly people in the family need a lot of looking after at the moment. Add ...
Sunday, 21 October 2007

Experiment - This will be deleted

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If this works then a big virtual hug goes to Bearded Git who may have solved my inability with photos!
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Weston Park 10k - Continued

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For reasons unknown, Blogger wouldn't post this last photo in my original post below, so here it is: After, showing off their medals: