TGOC 2015: Glenelg to Inverbervie
2015 route has now been approved. Some good advice from my vetter to be digested and taken on board!
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Reindeer on the Glomma
In ancient times there were 4 native deer in the UK – elk and reindeer which disappeared around 10,000 years ago, and red deer and roe deer which remain. Because of over-hunting in earlier centuries (1300-1800) there have been several programs to reintroduce both red deer and roe deer. [In addition we now have 4
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A ‘Lemen Year’
A September trip to Norway found us revisiting the area reported on here. We had been without snow before, but on previous occasions there were children to manage; this was the first time we could focus on grown-up pursuits like walking, picking berries, and chopping trees. troll Black Death Norefjell lies 3 hours drive
FT gets real!
I was away for a few weeks in September and when I returned this picture graced the front page of my weekend newpaper. Of course it isn’t a new member of the government. Or a well know celebrity. It’s a journalist. The thing is – this is not our correspondent in Syria. This is our
TGOC 2014: The TGO Challenge putting it all together
The TGO Challenge The TGO Challenge takes place in May and it is now August, and for some unexplainable reason I still have not completed the write-up. Probably I should learn from Martin Banfield who I found shut up in his tent in the middle of Fetteresso forest writing his blog. Last time, in 2012,
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TGOC 2014 #8: Ballochan, Glen Dye, Fetteresso Forest to Dunnottar Castle & Stonehaven
I left Tony and Jackie tucked up in their tent and worked my way across to the track up White Hill on the other side of the valley. Birse Castle and Ballochan from White Hill From now on the mountains are behind me. I move eastwards trying to keep to the relatively high ground of the hills
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Deer don’t do plums
After Badgers and then foxes trying to shake the plums down from the tree I expected the deer to do the same. But apparantly deer don’t do plums!
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TGOC 2014 #7: Braemar / Ballater to Ballochan
Someone calls Ballater their ‘secret weapon’ for the TGO. I’m not sure why, but it does seem counter-intuitive to head this way when wilder scenery of Lochnagar beckons to the south east. It is a pleasant town with a range of restaurants and other facilities and a campsite right by the centre. The route from Braemar is straight
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Friday Bread
2x 1.6kg loaves (large). Made with 50% strong stoneground whole wheat flour plus 50% strong white. Poolish from natural levain with wholemeal flour 6-7 hours to mature. Short mix. 2 hour bulk ferment with 2 folds at 40 minute intervals. 20 min bench rest before shaping into bannetons. Retarded overnight in fridge for 9 hours.