‘Do you know who I am?’ asked a man angrily at an airport check-in desk. A resolute attendant manning the desk grabbed the microphone and asked over the PA system: ‘Can anyone help? This man doesn’t know who he is.’ This is an old joke, but I couldn’t find one any better than this; and it pops into my mind…
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Another day off and another one with unfavourable forecast for the tops of the hills. On the other hand there were areas with the weather predicted as quite reasonable. I wanted to make most of that and decided to walk the Dava Way – a long-distance walk I’d had on my radar for quite a while. As with most of…
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A couple of weeks ago at the High Court in Glasgow a man received a life sentence and was jailed for a minimum of 27 years. The convicted man was a taxi-driver who’d travelled 200 miles from Bradford to kill a shopkeeper he had known only from seeing videos on the Internet. The murdered man’s ‘crime’? His interpretation of Islam…
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There was no advance warning. The plane was approaching the airport in a controlled manner. Nothing looked to be out of the ordinary. But when the moment came for the plane to touch down, it made a hard landing. So hard in fact that oxygen masks descended and smoke filled the cabin. Then hell broke loose. Panicking passengers tried to…
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The summit of Ben Wyvis, a great massif between Dingwall and Garve, by the main road to Ullapool, was my first Munro I’ve climbed. UPDATE: I climbed it again yesterday (1st August 2016). The differences? It’s almost nine years later, and weather was worse. But still it was a great day out. From a designated car park, I followed a…