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Camping

I know I haven’t updated in ages. I plan on trying to be better with that, but I know that I say that all of the time.

I just thought I’d write a quick update because we got back from camping on Sunday. We went down near Crieff to a campsite called Comrie Croft and stayed camped there with our friends Ryan, Theresa, and Chris. We had a lot of fun. One day we went for a circular hike to see Deil’s Cauldron, which is also called Devil’s Kettle. I read something online which said, “In Gaelic it is Slocha’n Donish and legend has it that it was the favourite haunt of a brownie or water elf called Uris-chidh who enticed victims down into the huge natural pothole.”

I thought that was pretty cool and it was a cool looking waterfall but unfortunately I forgot to bring my camera on the hike. I did take some pictures while we were at and around the campsite, though. I’ll put those below. The other day we took our friends to Loch Lomond and to eat at a pub near Callander. It was a fun time. Steph and I stayed in our 2 person tent, which is quite snug for both of us, but wasn’t too bad. It kept us warm and dry despite the rainy weather. I just wish we could have stayed around for longer, even though my neck was aching from the sudden change in sleeping environment.

Anyway, here are some of the photos I took. I can’t be bothered to post them all.

View from the Campsite Path

Froad or Tog in Hand

Thistle

Secondary Random Lamb

Vocal Lamb Bleating

Ryan's Hand and Vocal Lamb

Playing with Fire

Pleasant sunny day

Ah, so this post is to serve as a sort of main course to the sort of starters I’ve been making lately…if you’ll accept the food analogy.

First of all, we’ve almost finished the cosmetic updates on my website. I think it looks very nice and Steph has done a good job adding the birds into the header. It’s pretty cool, and it keeps the idea behind the theme the same. I really like it, and it makes me want to post a whole lot more than my previous theme, which had some problems displaying images correctly and just did some screwy things whenever I’d try to format things the way I wanted them. This theme is clean and simple, but remains visually pleasing. Anyway, enough of web stuff.

I thought I’d mention that I’ve added a poetry section to my site, and I’ve got a bunch of my poems on there. Now, I’ll just state for the record that I haven’t really made most of my poetry available to just anyone to read before this, so please realize that this contains a ton of my stuff, some of it left unfinished or without any editing yet been done. Stuff will change on the poetry section as I add/remove/edit poems. I also hope that nobody makes fun of me. I write from the heart, but I haven’t always followed the rules for some of this stuff, I’m sure. It has mainly been a way for me to express my emotions, which I’m usually really bad at doing. Anyway, if you want to read them, feel free. If not, that’s fine too. Just don’t send them to tons of people in chain emails making fun of the crappy ones. Oh, and don’t claim them as your work, just in case one of these babies turns out to be my cash crop. Yeah…..that’s going to happen…totally.

HandRooster: The comic is coming back. It is coming back soon. It is coming back this next week. This week’s scripts are done and they have been sent to the beautiful artist who is my wife, and she will be working on them tomorrow and later this week. I hope we haven’t lost our fan base entirely, but if you read this and you used to read the comic, get your RSS news readers ready..or just go to the site later next week if you’re old school like that. I must admit that sometimes I prefer to go without a newsreader myself. I call it “going newsreader commando” and it can be quite an exciting experience.

It was a nice sunny day today, so Steph and I walked to the shop in Strathtay. On the way, I took some pictures which I will share below. I had been wanting to get some photos of a couple of little waterfalls near the path, so I got those and a few others. I hope you enjoy them, because I had a problem with my Aperture plugin which uploads photos and I couldn’t get most of them on for hours. Now that I have conquered that problem, I present them to you.

Small falls near River Tay

Little shaded falls

Sun drenched stream

Shaded waterfall

Old stone thing - I have no idea what it is

Building waterfall

Mossy stone post

Moss

Last year's leaf

Snowdrops

Tiny smooth falls

Honestly, this post was going to be longer. I want to talk about some books I’ve been reading and also some work stuff, but I think I’ll do proper book reviews at a later date and work can wait. I’ll leave you to what you were doing before this rude interruption. Have a good one, as required by law.