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A Cool Yule to you all. And let's hope that the lengthening days here in the North, at least, bring a little brightness in the coming year to all the living things sharing our planet...

Did you hear about the overweight Ballerina? She had to wear a three-three.

Logan Bread is another option. It's a flapjack / biscuit-like thing. A search will find you some recipes. It's long-life and pretty well balanced with quick and slow release stuff. Takes time to chew too. I make a batch from time to time. This is a post where I quote the recipe I use. But there...

If the left side of the brain controls the right hand, then only left-handed people are in their right mind.

A Greenworks Cordless Hedge Trimmer (61cm blades) to help me with dissuading the Blackthorn that is attempting territorial gain on the main track, and elsewhere, in my woodland. I should probably be able to damage some of the wilder plants in my garden with it too...

I see from the Beeb today that our Northern European cousins have been recently provided with some new and updated emergency preparedness guides by their Governments. If interested, the links to the docs and / or content are in the Beeb article... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjr4zwj2lgdo

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]