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One last walk before the op!
I have one weekend left before I go under the knife – so I have my fingers, toes, legs and everything else that is even remotely cross-able, crossed in the
24 November, 2009
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Hollywood in the Yorkshire Dales
I was watching a film the other week – one of those 1am films that they can’t show at any other time as they are just so awful it would
15 November, 2009
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Official: I’m Old!
I’ve been told I’m old – officially, by a doctor no less. Of course she didn’t use the work “old”, she used something much more laden with dread and clouded
29 October, 2009
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One of our sheepdogs is missing!
We approached the gate tentatively, the large, snarling, barking yellow dog ensured that we weren’t going to go through it, and called through the open kitchen door to a woman
21 September, 2009
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2008 Walking Round-up
It feels like an awful long time since I entered anything into my diary, in fact it’s been over a month, which I suppose is a long time. Unfortunately the
5 January, 2009
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Project Wainwright 2007 – Update
Early last year I began ‘Project Wainwright’, which was my way of officially beginning the collection of all 214 Lakeland fells classified by Alfred Wainwright. This is a bagging list
26 November, 2008
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Accident waiting to happen
I’m not an experienced walker in the great scheme of things – I’ve only been hill walking for about 4 years now and I still have a lot to learn,
6 September, 2008
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The Ultimate Long Distance Challenge
While I’ve been laid up ill with Mumps, I’ve caught up with some of the programmes I’ve captured with Sky+. Last night I watched the final episode of “The man
22 August, 2008
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My parotid salivary infection
I felt a bit under the weather on Monday and my ear was a bit sore, but I’m not generally one for being ill, so I went to the gym
22 August, 2008
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Hadrians Wall Planning
Just got back from three days in Paris, taking in the sights and generally doing the family holiday thing – as far as that goes nowadays – the kids have
16 August, 2008
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The Real Monarch…
I don’t know if anyone has been watching the BBC Scotland series called “The Real Monarch of The Glen”? One of the beauties of digital TV (certainly Sky), is the
22 July, 2008
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Nothing worse than dog shit?
In some respects, I’m very fortunate in where I live, although I’m in the middle of the Cheshire plain with hardly a hill for miles around, I have a load
27 March, 2007
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