Munro: Mountain Man

Just a quick heads up for anyone who missed it first time round the documentary “Munro: Mountain Man” is repeated on BBC4 at 7pm tonight. And if you watch very, very carefully you will see yours truly out of focus in the background of the Clachaig Inn! I was en-route up north to Ullapool back in May and stopped off for a bite to eat. As I walked in I saw a camera and asked the barman what they were filming. He wasn’t really sure but then I recognised Nick Crane who was chatting to folk about their Munro adventures. He was really looking for couple or groups to interview on camera so I was spared actually being interviewed! However I did have a quick chat with him and it turned out they’d been up Bidean the day before in a blizzard! And were then heading further north to Skye and An Teallach. As you will see on the programme they got absolutely fantastic weather just as we did.

It’s a small world…

Fellow blogger Bigbananafeet (Sandy) has just posted this about a charity walk he did on the Lawers Group a few years ago.  Turns out I was there too!  Must have been either 2003 or 2004 long before we both met through outdoorsmagic.com.  This must be what getting caught on Google Street View must be like!

Change of Design

I thought I would have a wee play about with the appearance of the blog and found  a version where I could include a photo.  Of course I still wanted to have a black and amber colour scheme so my choice was a bit limited.  Hope folk like it.  Please feel free to comment!

Sad News

A couple of weekends ago I made a visit back to Hornsea and met up with old school friends Ian, Roy and Paul.   We shared the inevitable memories and stories from the (good?) old days and parted promising to meet up more often than we have in recent times.  It was a shock to get a call from Ian saying that Roy had died  of a heart attack at the end of last week.  Can’t quite believe he’s gone.  I know folk say this sort of thing in these circumstances but Roy was genuinely one of the nicest blokes you could hope to meet and his brother’s blog sums it up with the phrase “I really liked him”.  As kids we both lived in the same street and had known each other from when we started primary school.  He’ll be greatly missed by his family and friends.

Just Testing

Just testing!