Has anyone lost a pair of what look like ladies spectacles in the Northern Fells/Wainwrights aka ‘Back o’ Skidda’? If so, someone has put them on the cairn on Great Scafell… Was probably Wed 31 May or at least that’s when I saw them. As a couple had not long left the hill for Knott, I thought it best to leave them there…
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Well I went into Cotswold Outdoors in Keswick today and tried to get some Scarpa Maverick GTX as recommended by some of you and also in the article Alli furnished me with. However, at the start, I complained to the salesman that I’m having a lot of trouble with painful toe ends and am wondering whether my feet could possibly have grown (I thought it both unlikely and impossible). So, he measured my feet and… I’ve gone from about a 7 and a half / 8 to a size 9! That rules out women’s shoes for me now. Apparently your feet can get longer with age!
He only had size 12 and above in the men’s Mavericks so I had a look around the men’s section and found some synthetic Merrells (in blue-grey which is a bit weird). Anyway, these fitted a treat so I bought them. They also come with a 3 year guarantee which I thought pretty good.
So, I’m good to go on Thursday when my friend comes to take me hillwalking 🙂
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After having my third set of footwear fall apart on me in my third consecutive walk, I’m desperate to know if there is any non-leather/suede walking footwear out there where the sole will stay on for more than a year. Someone must know of some. It doesn’t have to be ‘vegan’ as such but I don’t wear dead-cow! In fact, I’m wondering whether my sole-glue problem is because vegan footwear is likely to be using vegan glue and I’m wondering whether it actually works?
I think one of the problems is likely that all my hillwalking footwear gets excessively wet on every single walk due to where I live and walk and I don’t think modern glues are prepared for this (possibly because many are made abroad where they don’t have our climate).
If any of you can recommend anything, please leave a comment on this post – thanks 🙂
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taken from the Natural History Museum website – Image courtesy of pxhere (CC0).
Just a quickie as I don’t have any forums to post this kind of thing on any more…
Did you hide a flask on Meal Fell to pick up later today (Mon 1 August 22)? I ask as I found one which looked like it had been hidden to come back to but I couldn’t see a soul on the surrounding fells and it was late in the day so I’ve brought it home with me.
If you think it’s yours and want to claim it, tell me: where did you hide it and what does it look like? Also what drink was in it?
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Hi everyone,
I’m truly sorry about the lack of posts but another month has come and hit me!
A couple of weeks ago, we were informed that our shop was to close in a month and so we’d all be made redundant…
No photos – just a rant!
I haven’t been posting on my blog lately as you may have noticed (I’ve also left a lot of forums too). I’ve been trying to push myself into at least writing a post on why I haven’t been posting but the reason I haven’t been posting has stopped me! That reason? Sheer naked anger at the Government and their mistreatment of key workers during the pandemic! (excluding the NHS of course who’ve been looked after – I think the Government think they are the ONLY key workers!) Read the rest of this entry »
Wed 24 February 2021
As I had to spend a whole day away from my house while some disruptive work was being done I decided to hunt the only area with a survivable weather window to walk for several hours in – our area was going to be deluged with heavy rain and all my nearby mountains were too. It looked to have a small area of light rain all day around Langwathby so (lockdown notwithstanding) I set off over there. Before people get too upset, I really don’t think I had any other choice and it’s only around a 25 mile drive anyway and I drive 20 miles each way to work many days each week. Read the rest of this entry »
A merry Christmas to all my readers – hope you have a good one and manage to stay safe from the plague! (still hate this new bloody editor!) 😐
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