It’s a kind of irony of fate that the weather, my days off and my physical or mental state haven’t met for weeks thus stopping me from hill-walking; then I agreed to do some Pastoral service on my day off and suddenly the forecast was brilliant. The service was not to be long and was in the morning; I’d be…
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While she was out on her rounds, a nun working for a local home healthcare agency ran out of petrol. There was a petrol station just down the road. Since the nun was on the way to see a patient, she decided to look through her car for something to carry to the station and fill up with petrol. Always…
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Last week we heard the news that Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife pledged a hefty sum of $3 billion to battle and to end all diseases by the end of this century. They joined the likes of Microsoft’s founder Bill Gates and his wife Melinda whose foundation has been involved across the world since the year 2000, providing…
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I managed to carve out a few hours off after completing all my duties so I was able to make the most of another beautiful sunny day of the Indian summer we have now in Scotland. My choice was a simple hill south off Elgin, some 20-minute drive from my home. The best view of it is from the A96…
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The Ladder Hills in Glenlivet was my training ground for hill-walking in the Scottish Hills. It was distinctively different from what I knew and it required a slightly different set of skills and attitudes than those useful in the Polish mountains. The Ladder Hills are relatively close to civilisation but at the same time they give a sense of remoteness…