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What’s the point of feminism when so many men are shit?

January 9, 2018 By Ellen 13 Comments

I wrote this post three years ago. Has anything changed? It was magical. Sunlight made the mountain snow sparkle and the only sound was boots crunching. Boots crunching and people talking. Three women were chatting – intelligent, successful women enjoying the stunning Scottish scenery, respite from the festive round and the chance to […]

How much of our landscape are we?

July 12, 2015 By Ellen Leave a Comment

We had a fabulous holiday in Holland and were inching our way aboard the ferry for the waterborne part of our homeward journey when it happened. The car in front of us – a shiny NL registered expensive one – was lurching and grumbling just above us on the steep ramp. Alarmingly rolling back towards […]

Moonwalker: Adventures of a Midnight Mountaineer

May 11, 2014 By Ellen Leave a Comment

What do you do when you want to climb mountains all the time, but you need to go to work an inconvenient amount of the time? Easy. You consider yourself lucky that you work shifts in Scotland that mean you can get up before the sparrow farts, climb a mountain and be at your desk […]

Spring has arrived, but I’m stuck in here…

April 14, 2014 By Ellen Leave a Comment

Review: Regatta Women’s X-ert Capris. A few weeks ago the sun came out for a little while, a few hours of blue sky and optimism. It’s here! Spring has arrived. Then it started to rain. And in between the showers it was damp. And windy. And cold. I spend much of the bright spell contemplating long sun soaked […]

Once upon a time, mummy was a person too

April 24, 2013 By Ellen 19 Comments

From the top of a mountain, you can see where the dragons live (A true story for my children)Once upon a time, very long ago – in fact, so many years ago, it may well have been a land far, far away – there lived a woman. She looked very like your mother only she […]