May 29th
2016
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More pictures from the Climb
R’s pictures turned out better than mine so here are a few of them (click the main image to see the gallery).
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May 29th
2016
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Ben More and Stob Binnein
R and I expanded our climbing area a bit today and drove out to Crianlarich to climb Ben More and Stob Binnein. We’d actually intended to go yesterday but the weather was not so great in the morning although it had got really nice by late afternoon. Got up at 6am today and noted with a […]
May 24th
2016
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Badger on new Webcam
We have a new webcam with better resolution. Unfortunately this means that we are having difficulty getting it to activate for the wildlife – and at the moment we are largely getting photos of the cats on their nocturnal wanderings. But yesterday we got a nice shot of a badger – unusually this time it […]
May 22nd
2016
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Bit of a problem with the site
I’ve been off on holiday in Northern Ireland, cruising round Lough Erne. Inevitably, the web server behind all my sites picked the moment we left to pack in, and us being super security conscious people (well R is anyway…), we didn’t leave ourselves a back door to get in and fix it. So if anyone […]
May 21st
2016
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Two Cathedrals and Home
We left the boat at Manor Marine after the Galley Slave (me) had given it a good clean. It was rather amusing that the guy from the boat company had just as much trouble parking it as N had had during the course of the week. I used the on-share ‘facilities’ one more time, with […]
May 20th
2016
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Waiting for de lunch dat never arrive
This was our last full day in NI, and again the weather was a bit changeable. I was struck again as we pootled back towards Enniskillen what a beautiful, green and unspoiled area this really is. Myself, I prefer the ruggedness of Argyll, but this place definitely has its charms too (and I must say […]
May 19th
2016
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In which we nearly have a falling out….
Today we set off to explore the ‘Upper Lough’ – this is much narrower and twistier than where we have been up to now – and there are many small wooded islands. These all look very like each other – so thank goodness for View Ranger. At one point going through a channel that was […]
May 18th
2016
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Two castles, “one mile”
Today was a bit grey again but at least not raining. In the morning we went to see Enniskillen castle which was moderately interesting. There was a regimental museum with one feature that amused me – one of the maps had a diagram (relating to fleet movements) with a label of “Orkney Isles” slap over […]
May 17th
2016
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Pots and Islands
We woke up to discover that against all expectations, the forecast was correct and it was now grey and drizzling. We walked over to see the famous pottery and on our way we made a short detour to cross the international border into the Republic of Ireland. Apparently by intention, there was no indication that […]
May 16th
2016
By donich_admin
One man’s mile
Anyway, we were fixed again by 10am the next day (with no real explanation for what had happened though) and set off to catch up with where we should have reached the following day. It was now Monday and the Lough was even emptier than at the weekend. Against the forecast, the weather was still […]