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Wednesday, June 29, 2005
Camping with a baby
Wow, what a week last week - some of the best weather of the year, and also some of the worst as it happens. We took our first long camping trip with the baby and it was a learning experience. Wisely, we decided to keep to beaches on the east coast of Scotland to avoid the midges. The baby seemed to enjoy the experience and took a particular liking to hitting the gas bottle with various acoutrements. We had to put an end to that when he started hitting the gas bottle with a lighter though - it seemed to be giving him a little too much freedom.
Boyed by our success we headed to the west coast where we were sure the breeze would keep the midges at bay. It did and then some. After less than 24 hours in what seemed to be an atlantic storm in Gairloch, we gave up and headed back east. There were only 4 tents left in the massive campsite at Big Sand and two of them were blowing flat to the ground. Ours is intact though and ready to fight another day. We're all dried out now and back to work. Hoping for another northerly adventure soon. Posted by bigcrags @
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 Thursday, June 16, 2005 UK Mountain Weather Forecasts
I'm sure I've seen Bagger mention this weather site in the past but I only came across it via a paragliding site in Derbyshire. They've got localised UK mountain weather forecasts - which is a tad better than the BBC these days (where Scotland still seems to be the size of Wales on the map, and they don't show wind strengths - Complain).
Accuweather - UK Mountain weather forecasts Posted by bigcrags @
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Monday, June 06, 2005 Sorry to site feed users
Apologies to everyone using our site feed to follow what's been posted here, somehow the settings keep changing and you can get everything from a single line to the full post in your newsreader. If I can figure out why it has been changing I'll fix it. (It's a blogger blog).
I'll keep trying until I get the full feeds working. Thanks for reading. Posted by bigcrags @
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Wednesday, June 01, 2005 Midge Protection for the G8 at Gleneagles
Given that the entire G8 Gleneagles event is being organised from London, I wonder if anyone has taken into account that after a particularly wet spring, the midges in July should be rampaging around the hotel.
Of course, a swanky big hotel like Gleneagles has probably invested in a few Midgeater machines to clear the entire area of biting insects. But what if they forgot? Maybe I need to email the Whitehouse and offer them a few midge head nets to help keep old Mr Bush itch-free on his jolly to Perthshire's most exclusive golf course (most exclusive in July that is). Perhaps some of the protestors who end up joining the world leaders around Aucterarder would enjoy the anonymity of the midge head nets, perhaps not, but I bet they'd prefer not to be bitten. On the other hand, perhaps we should keep our midge protection to ourselves, and if anyone gets bitten, it'll serve them right for choosing Scotland in July. That'll learn them! Before anyone comments on it, I know the midges are never that bad in Gleneagles - we live just 10 miles away. You can always hope though. Posted by bigcrags @
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