Confessions of a Mountain Bike Novice
Until a couple of weeks ago I was a mountain bike virgin. I saw people on them but had never ridden one. Now
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scotland
Sign of the Times
In one of my previous posts http://johndburns.wordpress.com/2014/01/15/true-north/ I made some comments at the expense of Scotways previously known as the Scottish Rights of Way
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Lessons on mountain biking or How Not to get to a bothy
Everything has just gone pear shaped. I hit the ground with an emphatic thud. My legs float skywards and I can see the clouds
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Mallory – Beyond Everest
My one man play about George Mallory is in rehearsal right now. It’s hard work but we are getting there. The play is
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Maol Bhudhie – episode 2
(If you go two episodes back in the blog you can read the first instalment Judgement Day) It’s the morning after the walk
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Folk Lost on the Hill
The large black Labrador shuffled uncomfortably in front of the fire. He was, as is typical of his kind, an expert human watcher
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Judgement Day
The Iron Lodge is behind me, once a proud place, the lodge now languishes with an aura of genteel decay. Light fittings dangle
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New Year Blues
Sometimes the weather creeps up on you. You read the forecast and decide there’s nothing doing on the hills for a while and
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Good Reads for Bad Days
I’m writing this in the little blip that exists in all our lives between Christmas and new Year. It’s like a temporary truce
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Tear the compass from my cold dead hand.
I’m in the forest, it’s dark, I’m on a path that didn’t exist when they made the map I’m using. I can see
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