I’ve started this blog in response to requests from my friends to write further about my cowardly exploits in the hills of Britain and elsewhere.
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I was appalled to read that very many of Britain’s GP Surgeries are either closing, have closed or are under threat of closure! I can’t imagine anything much more catastrophic myself – it will be pretty catastrophic for hospital A&E departments too as everyone will switch to those instead! 38 Degrees have started a petition on it anyway – please consider signing it here…
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This amused me the other day on my walk. As it was a Bank Holiday and so crowded everywhere, I decided to have a little local walk and was passing by my favourite churchyard and decided to have a little sit in the sun. While I was sat, I was browsing the gravestone epitaphs and these amused me…
There were two gravestones, his and hers, next to each other. At the bottom of hers it read
“At rest”…
At the bottom of his, it read
“At Peace”
Richard reckons it’s the only time he got the last word!
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Thu 18 January 2024
During the last cold snap I met up with my friend Simon to do some hills. We set off hoping to do ‘The Dodds’ near Helvellyn but with the option to downgrade if we didn’t feel up to the very icy conditions. Unfortunately, when I saw the icy and steep starts to the likes of The Sticks Pass up to The Dodds, I’m afraid I chickened out and so we opted for High Rigg instead – a grandstand view of all the snowier stuff around us. Luckily, this day I made sure I took my Zenith film camera for an outing! Read the rest of this entry »
Well, I did my avoiding (cow) dairy for a month and finished just in time for Christmas Day – and all that choccy! 😉
This, you may remember, was to see if I could cut down on my long-term chronic inflammation which results in deafness (becoming almost permanent and almost total now unfortunately), nasal polyps, constantly having to clear my throat and sometimes having chest problems. Read the rest of this entry »
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Lots of hills this year but no Scottish trips at all – in fact, only 2 trips in all…
Tue 12 Dec 23
Our second and last trip away this year (what a poor year for trips!) and we were blessed, for a change, with superb weather on our single walking day 🙂
Not the weather on the day but the same walk…
Tue 3 Oct 2023
This was our first trip away this year! And all because I’ve been having to clear out my mother’s house every fortnight since March (and am still doing so)…
We’d decided we must make the effort and get away and decided we just had time for a short 3-night trip to Boot in Eskdale. The weather was fairly bad but it was nice to have a change in walking area as I’ve pretty much stuck to my own patch all year. Due to the iffy forecast and it being mid-week, we decided that Wasdale might be quiet enough to get parked for a change – we hadn’t been to Wasdale for years! Read the rest of this entry »
I was eating in my favourite tea room the other day and quizzing the staff about the menu choices as I’m shortly having to cut out all dairy from my diet for a while to see if I can suppress my nasal problems. I was amazed to be suddenly ‘preached at’ by a vegan at a nearby table who said; “Well, you’re not a baby cow are you?”
This led me to muse, on my subsequent fell walk, about the difference between vegetarians like myself and vegans – and the answer seems to me to be: vegans preach at people and vegetarians generally don’t! I’m sure this isn’t true in all cases but seems quite often to be the case… I personally wouldn’t dream of pulling up a carnivore for their food choices – to me, it’s none of my business – I’m sure they know what they’re doing…
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