The name of this blog has been known to upset and offend – particularly those who have never heard of Trainspotting or Irvine Welsh.
The new normal
Wednesday July 29th 2020
Beinn a’Beithir
Munros since diagnosis #188 and #189
13:30 – Sgorr Dhonuill (M137), 3284ft, 1001m
15:15 – Sgorr Dhearg (M107), 3360ft, 1024m
Coming out of lockdown
Tuesday 21st – Thursday 23rd July 2020
Munros since diagnosis #184 – #187
13:15 – Beinn Dearg (M057), 3556ft, 1084m
14:45 – Cona’ Meall (M176), 3209ft, 978m
16:15 – Meal nan Ceapraichean (M177), 3205ft, 977m
18:15 – Edidh nan Clach Geala (M257), 3041ft, 927m
Sample …. no spoilers
Hereby a draft chapter from work in progress, a description of an expedition to Ben Lawers in September 2015.
January silence
Regular readers might be interested to know what is happening in my life. Continue reading “January silence”
No metastases
Just a quick post. Continue reading “No metastases”
Finishing what I started
unless testosterone is no longer doing what it once did, its effects remain largely unnoticed, as they blend into the ordinary conduct of life
Munro since diagnosis #183
13:30 – Glas Bheinn Mhòr (M145), 3271ft, 997m
Only one hundred to go!
that giving up is not healthy is always reaffirmed by not doing so
Munro since diagnosis #182
13:30 – Beinn Ime (M118), 3317ft, 1011m
Autumn
You don’t square a circle by replacing the circle with a Lambeg drum
A perfect analysis ….
Well that was predictable. The EU has looked over the British Government’s die in a ditch proposal for a Brexit deal, and has gone “meh”. And as was equally predictable, one of the main sticking points is Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson’s plan to give the DUP an effective veto. The terms of the Good Friday Agreement already give the minority of drum bangers the ability to hold the rest of the Northern Irish population hostage. The British Government’s new plan for Brexit would give them the ability to hold the entire island of Ireland hostage. The British Government’s idea of progress is to turn the fate of the island of Ireland over to a bunch of reactionaries who still long for the 17th century.
The position of the DUP is that Northern Ireland must be treated exactly the same as the rest of the UK. Except for the same…
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An old boring argument
Another letter in the paper. This one is quite important.
Too many otherwise intelligent and reasonable people are taken in by simplistic classism because they have never been able to understand the reality of being Scottish.
