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Sunday, 29 November 2015

The Weather In The UK...

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...is very seldom as bad as forecast. I've said it many a time before and today was another case in point. It was just before 10 am when...
Friday, 27 November 2015

The Wrong Decision

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On Wednesday afternoon a decision had to be made: to head for our originally intended destination of Malham Tarn (33 miles away) or to chang...
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Sunday, 22 November 2015

A Visit to the Smallest County (4)

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Saturday 21 November Rutland Water is a sizeable body of water and, whilst in summer we wouldn’t think anything of walking its outside per...
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A Visit to the Smallest County (3)

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Friday 20 November “Back to Rutland Water!” I declared to be the plan for the day, this time with the intention of taking a stroll along t...

A Visit to the Smallest County (2)

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Thursday 19 November Having noticed on Wednesday afternoon that the Morrison’s supermarket just outside of Stamford doesn’t have any parki...

A Visit to the Smallest County (1)

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As much as I would have liked to have headed north or west, to visit a few previously unticked hilltops, the weather forecast for this week ...
Sunday, 15 November 2015

Colin’s Life in Numbers

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It occurred to me this morning that it was four years ago last Wednesday that we bought Colin (our WildAx Constellation panel van convers...
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Saturday, 17 October 2015

A Short Week in Wales - Thursday

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Moel y Golfa (SJ291125) Another fine morning greeted me so off I pootled the few miles to the village of Middletown, where a car park that...
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A Short Week in Wales – Wednesday

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Y Golfa (SJ182071) Vaguely coming to and looking at my watch at 0620 I was pleased to have woken early, as it meant that I could text Mick ...

A Short Week in Wales – Tuesday

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Glasgwm (SH836395) Having contemplated the map, I decided not to go back to the layby I’d overshot on Monday, but instead would take a loo...

A Short Week in Wales – Monday

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Last Sunday it occurred to me that there was no reason that I needed* to be at home this week and thus, with Mick away working**, I may as w...
Friday, 2 October 2015

Brooks Cascadia Trail Shoes

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During our GR10 walk in July this year, Mick’s shoes fell apart. That led to something highly unusual: he put fingers to key board and wrote...
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Wednesday, 2 September 2015

Marilyn Tally

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In a recent comment Conrad said: “What about some Marilyn stats? You keep sneaking them in, but the running total seems to be on the T...
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Monday, 31 August 2015

Cold Fell

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Sunday 30 August Cold Fell (SE of Brampton – NY606556) The RSPB car park at Clesketts isn’t designed for 6m long vehicles, but by holding...
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Sunday, 30 August 2015

Dumyat

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Saturday 29 August Dumyat (just NE of Stirling) “You dumb yat!”. “What a dumb yat!”. Yep, it definitely sounds like an insult. It struck ...
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