After yesterday surprised us with near Mediterranean weather we woke to-day to wind and heavy rain. So it was no surprise that Buster voted to have a day off from this walking lark, making himself a cosy nest in the corner of the caravan….if he had a “do not disturb” sign he would have deployed it!
It is a Dogs Life
Eventually a tramp through the woods, raining or not was called for and what a pleasure that was with the contrasting shades of pine and lichens on a misty backdrop.
Now the mystery….. I am sure that if I had been a Boy Scout I would have been taught how to navigate without a compass. Still I did pick up my bush craft by watching Cowboy films and took in every word that those ‘injun trackers’ shared with us all. The most important being that you can always tell which way is NORTH. Easy the moss and lichen only grows on the north facing side of the tree trunk. Well NOT here in Northern Scotland……it grows all around the trunk which means that Scotland is at the North Pole or no one has told these pines and lichen….. and we are lost!
Written 16th September to be posted later when signal available.
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