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A walk across the Meadows: September 2012
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A walk across the Meadows. Monday, September 24, 2012. I've meant to go to see the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historic Monuments of Scotland. For some time. That mouthful of a name makes it sound so dull, does it not? They were also selling some publications cheap and I bought a book that I had browsed through before, of photos by Erskine Beveridge. Are getting on, and caught up with the highly specific and splendid Causey. So it was doors open in Newington rather than Edinburgh really, but I su...
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A walk across the Meadows: February 2012
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A walk across the Meadows. Wednesday, February 15, 2012. I'm sad to hear that Dory Previn. Has died, but quite impressed that somebody as non-mainstream should be featured on the Radio 4 news. I do wonder if one of the editors is a fan and swung things a little? It was odd to hear clips of songs that I thought so personal and confessional (and so directed at me. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Craig's love of Scotland. View my complete profile.
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A walk across the Meadows: June 2013
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A walk across the Meadows. Monday, June 10, 2013. RIP: Iain (M) Banks. I was very saddened to learn that Iain Banks died yesterday. I came to his books late, as I often seem to, not wanting to trust received opinion and waiting until other snuck him under my radar: a climbing friend told me the surprise ending of The Wasp Factory. Another climbing acquaintance keeping to himself in the Smiddy in Dundonnell, with just a copy of Use of Weapons. Projecting from his sleeping bag. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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A walk across the Meadows: February 2013
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A walk across the Meadows. Friday, February 15, 2013. A nice print job. I do think they could have a wider range of scenes. Maybe an urban centre late at night with a merry band of binge-drinkers. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). A nice print job. Craig's love of Scotland. View my complete profile.
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A walk across the Meadows: Ben Lomond
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A walk across the Meadows. Wednesday, December 31, 2014. Winter days can often be rubbish: short, cold and cheerless. How lovely then to find that your plan to do a hill over the holidays lines up with some high pressure. As with quite a few of my best walks, this one only took form on the day. To start with, there was quite a bit of impromptu photography, including the view from Tom Weir's favourite hill:. Coincidently, a statue of Tom was unveiled. Our summit awaits. This is why we do this. On top with...
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A walk across the Meadows: April 2013
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A walk across the Meadows. Monday, April 15, 2013. I've been staying out of the whole what-was-the-Thatcher-legacy? Discussions, but it occurs to me that I have an anecdote to add if anybody is interested. It's 1988 and my parents and I are visiting the Glasgow Garden Festival. After the famous people had gone, there was a squabble among the various people who had been held back by security over who was now first. I did get my trip to the viewing platform just after, about which I remember nothing.
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A walk across the Meadows: December 2014
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A walk across the Meadows. Wednesday, December 31, 2014. Winter days can often be rubbish: short, cold and cheerless. How lovely then to find that your plan to do a hill over the holidays lines up with some high pressure. As with quite a few of my best walks, this one only took form on the day. To start with, there was quite a bit of impromptu photography, including the view from Tom Weir's favourite hill:. Coincidently, a statue of Tom was unveiled. Our summit awaits. This is why we do this. On top with...
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A walk across the Meadows: Re-reading
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A walk across the Meadows. Sunday, September 21, 2014. Warning: may contain hobbits. I first read The Hobbit. When I was about 10. A while back it occured to me (probably while watching the last slice of Peter Jackson CGI) that I had never reread it. Finding an nice Allen and Unwin edition (see above) in a charity shop a few weeks ago pushed me over the edge. They were growing anxious, for they saw now that the house might be hidden almost anywhere between them and the mountains. If the journey struck me...
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A walk across the Meadows: January 2015
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A walk across the Meadows. Monday, January 19, 2015. A mixture of man-made and natural features from Penvalla:. On top of Trahenna Hill with the wind stirring up the spindrift:. Looking towards Culter Fell, with the sun beginning to set:. Some sheep caught in the sun, laying in their central heating:. The whole day was spent walking on snow, from roadside to roadside. It's a good while since I can remember that happening. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Craig's love of Scotland. View my complete profile.
