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Posts tagged: #personal

October 16, 2018

#LOGO

every Social media post of my friends and contacts out adventuring which one enthralled and inspired me now created jealousy, resentment and more self loathingRead more

October 20, 2017
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My mind has taken away my love of the mountains

I’m sat on my sofa staring at a pair of expedition boots I bought a few weeks ago.  They were bought for two planned expeditions – Mont Blanc and Island Peak.  Yet now I have no hope of getting there.Read more

April 15, 2017
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In the life zone

This land unchanged for millennia, carved over eons of ice, rain and wind. The deer and birds running and flying paths led by their ancestors for time untold. Read more

September 15, 2016
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Get a plan.

A goal. They say a goal without a plan is just a dream.Read more

August 24, 2016
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The Pendulum

The Pendulum is swinging further and further from my passionRead more

August 2, 2016

Mental Mountains

Or rather, I’d been stuck for 30 years, forever perplexed by an apparently impossible series of crux moves on some distant soaring crag.Read more

June 19, 2016

Man up

Keep going.
Its not hard , come on!Read more

June 17, 2016
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Dreams of Chamonix

I learned the hard way that we need to accept a few things in life.Read more

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So needed to get out for a wee local leg stretch
Incredible !! Yum! 😍 until @bohcucina is open again at least we can get take out - stuffed and a very happy !
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So needed to get out for a wee local leg stretch
Incredible !! Yum! 😍 until @bohcucina is open again at least we can get take out - stuffed and a very happy !
Knock at the door - any chance of some Bacon and Eggs guv? Seeing as it’s Saturday ? 🦊🦊🦊😂

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So needed to get out for a wee local leg stretch
Incredible !! Yum! 😍 until @bohcucina is open again at least we can get take out - stuffed and a very happy !
Knock at the door - any chance of some Bacon and Eggs guv? Seeing as it’s Saturday ? 🦊🦊🦊😂
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