Our kids might be setting out on careers we can’t guess at and certainly won’t understand. Boy One is already ahead of the game – he wants to be a Pokemon trainer. Once he establishes his Renfrewshire-based Pokemon empire, I get to clean up the poo and look after everyone or so he tells me. […]

The idea was modest – a few folk would walk the River Eden from source to sea. It’s some 65 miles and if they could muster £100 a mile then the local hospice at home organisation would be £6500 better off. And on the way people could nominate a day to remember someone they had […]

Last Sunday we were very blessed – the sun (you remember, big hot thing – makes your shoulders go pink) shone on the day we fixed to do the Aonach Eagach ridge. There’s usually a gasp at the mention of Glencoe’s fearsome ridge… and now I remember why. I’d done the ridge – considered to […]