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It depends what you are looking for from your wilderness. Having hiked in many "wild" places over the years I eventually came to the conclusion that Wilderness, for me, is in the mind.

A massive fungus that appears each year on this tree at about the same time, late July. In Brecon Beacons National Park - woops! I mean Bannau Brycheiniog NP.

The Lone Ranger and Tonto have been having a break for a brew of coffee while on the trail. As they are about to mount up to continue their journey, Tonto kneels down and puts his ear to the ground. After a few moments he says "Buffalo come, Kemosabe". "How can you tell, Tonto?" says the Lone...

A young girl is visiting the Doctor's for a check-up. The Doctor dons his stethoscope, places the end on her chest and says "Big breath." "Yeth," she replies, "and I'm only thixthteen".

The Golite Hex3 is pretty good tent and fast to set up; just one pole (or none at all: use your hiking pole or suspend from a tree or a line). Can set up inner and outer together, or just one or the other. No longer made but you / she may find one second-hand somewhere. I was using mine just a...

That looks like the campervan-version of the Tardis!

An aphorism which I try to keep in mind when in difficult nav. situations: Navigation is the art of knowing that you are not where you think you are.

My family was so poor when I was growing up that if I hadn't been born a boy I'd have had nothing to play with.

I like to have a Garmin GPS unit (and spare batteries!) with me in the mountains in poor viz as a backup to, or assistant to, my map and compass. It's a paper map also, not one on my phone!

This is a site I use https://www.lightningmaps.org/#m=oss;t=3;s=0;o=0;b=;ts=0;

That book, read in my very early teens, set me off on many years and many thousands of miles of sailing: inland, coastal, offshore and ocean. I wanted to name my first boat Nancy Blackett with the UK Ships Register but the name was taken at the time.

Well, looking at the news, I would expect Plagues of Locusts and the odd Mushroom Cloud or two...

The Power, by Naomi Alderman. I'm finding it a very powerful and compulsive read. (As was the previous book of hers I read - The Future.) [I]

Definitely worth a "Groan"!

My marriage got off to a bad start - and that was during the Wedding Service... After all the preamble the Vicar eventually said "You may now kiss the Bride." And she said "Not now, darling, I've got a headache."

I did do that with my dogs and oven / baking trays. Their raspy tongues easily stripped all the burnt-on bits from the tins / trays, making them much easier for me to wash. Alpha Bitch was always first while the others waited their turn to further clean a largely clean tin. It was interesting...

My new girlfriend said that she was polyamorous. She looked very puzzled when I bought her a Parrot as a present for our second date.

Nice pix! Ta! I see six snakes too. (Are they cold? Or just good friends?)

Dragonflies zipping about the reeds at Llangorse Lake in the BBNP.

My vinyl LP collection when CDs started to become ubiquitous. A lot of memories in those albums... I guess that, for many people now, all their music is streamed.