Monthly Archive for May 2008

glen etive

Added a couple more to my measly total of Munros last weekend , with a walk with my new office’s climbing club. After a grey start it turned into a glorious day – making hillwalking seem almost fun.

We climbed Ben Starav via the spectacular ridge path (above), with a bit of a scramble up to [...]

moving on

Today is my last day with jmarchitects – I start with gareth hoskins architects on Monday – lets see if the grass really is greener on the other side…

We caught the very hirstute Iron & Wine at the ABC last night. It had been a good 4 years since we last saw him supporting Cat Power and while his beard may not have got any bigger his band definitely had with at least 7 members – including an intriguing percussionist who played at [...]

The lack of recent posts has been down to some decidedly summerlike weather (5 days without rain!) which has seen us in the garden and out at the allotment. Our seedlings are getting rather huge in the conservatory, although many of the ones that we planted out have been decimated by slugs! I finally added [...]

ardnamurchan peninsula

As Chhay & and I have somehow managed to keep each other entertained, annoyed or otherwise occupied for approximately the last eight years, we dumped our surrogate child Claire for a weekend on the Ardnamurchan peninsula.
We had a pleasant drive up on the Friday night stopping at the very elegant Kilcamb Lodge for a [...]