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big galloot big galloot saturday 22 december 2012 eraser just been catching up on stuff i ve missed over the last few weeks and this post here struck a chord i m the worlds worst for keeping track of hills i ve been up and am very much the anti list ticker more and more often i find myself reading about other folks trips and thinking that looks familiar but i m no longer 100 sure of where i ve been and when as i watch my mothers memories being wiped out i wish that i d been more anal about the whole thing kept a log book properly cataloged photies and such like still never too late to start eh time to find a pen and dig out the unmarked harveys munro and corbett chart that btw is just one of the hundreds possibly thousands of photies that my maw has taken over the years i know that s her in the picture but where it was taken and when is anybodys guess that knowledge is gone along with almost every other memory she d built up in her 70 years fuck you alzheimers fuck you posted by big kev at 16 54 2 comments wednesday 18 july 2012 here comes the summer summer in scotland it s a bit shite really and totally rubbish when it comes to walking up hills and such like it s either too hot too wet or somewhere in between and then there s the midgies and the ticks thinking back i never did very much between may and september so fuck it i m staying local for the time being any spare time will be spent up at the allotment growing stuff it s a much more productive use of our time literally the tatties and some of the salad stuff have been going down a treat and the sense of satisfaction is easily on a par with gettin tae the top of a hill and a day of digging is just as knackering i like it so this ll be me until september the man cave there s been some talk of doing the fife coastal path in a section hike style once the weather settles a bit which ll be good and i ll be heading back to the cairngorms for a visit that s long overdue i m trimming down the gear pile in the meantime selling off tents n packs n stuff and getting it all back to some semblance of order only thing i actually intend buying is another of sean s custom inners for the hex something lighter than the original oooknest and with a bit more mesh so aye best get on the weeding ll no do itsel o posted by big kev at 14 31 7 comments labels oookworks saturday 23 june 2012 a big yellow vest bananas natures energy bar every walk begins with a banana and a shot of strong coffee usually taken in the car or mooching around wherever i ve happened to park i ve tried carrying the fruity wonder up hills in a variety of containers but that just feels like wasted space and failure to put it in any kind of container is just asking for trouble the bananaguard was never an option btw carrying something shaped like a big plastic cock just doesn t appeal by far the best solution that i ve found is to turn the fruit into cake the recipe below was shamelessly nicked from andi peters former childrens tv presenter and a bit of a whizz in the kitchen all credit goes to him beautiful man that he is o ingredients 125 g butter plus extra for greasing 150 g light soft brown sugar 2 eggs beaten 3 very ripe bananas mashed 250 g plain flour 1 tsp baking powder 1 2 tsp grated nutmeg to serve peanut butter whipped cream method 1 preheat the oven to 180c gas 4 160c gas 3 for fan forced ovens grease a 1kg capacity loaf tin and line the base with baking parchment 2 beat the butter and sugar together until fluffy and pale in colour 3 beat in the eggs a little at a time beating well after each addition 4 add the bananas to this mixture 5 sift the dry ingredients together with a pinch of salt and then fold gently into the banana mixture it is important to fold the dry ingredients in gently until just incorporated rather than simply stirring 6 transfer the mixture into the prepared tin and bake for 50 60 minutes or until a skewer placed in the middle of the cake comes out clean and dry 7 transfer to a wire rack to cool resist cutting it for 30 minutes or it might crumble it ll keep for a few days but i ve found that it rarely makes it past day 2 o comes out looking a bit like this goes down a bit like this jc seal of approval spread a bit of peanut butter on for some extra calories and in case you re wondering the title of this piece comes via the singing kettle and their cover of bananas are the best bananas bananas bananas are the best a soft squidgey middle in a big yella vest today or manyana ah ll be sayin can ah can ah have a ba na na as hiking songs go there are worse posted by big kev at 13 44 4 comments tuesday 27 march 2012 the horses mares tail a long weekend in lochaber saw us in a variety of picturesque places and at least two well known eateries surrounded by mountains and lochans and stuff of course the weather helped 19c or thereabouts and just a tad unseasonal given that we re still in march still as i always say scotland in the sunshine is a sight to behold speaking of which me in outdoors gear ootside a pub in one of the most famous mountain locations in the universe too much sun that s what it was o obviously photoshopped it s the only explanation the real food cafe award winning carrot cake haste ye back indeed posted by big kev at 12 17 no comments saturday 24 march 2012 planning application fail fife council continue to show an admirable degree of common sense it s a small victory but a victory nonetheless posted by big kev at 08 26 4 comments wednesday 21 march 2012 garbh choire refuge i m no a great fan of bothies but it s good to know they re there if the shit hits the fan the wee howff in garbh choire is in need of renovation and its continued existence is in doubt neil reid and kenny freeman have put forward a case for its retention interested parties should nip over and have a read clicky link posted by big kev at 21 23 no comments labels garbh choire the horns of the buffalo i found the graphic below while i was surfing for information on little raith windfarm which i d heard had been given the go ahead sure enough there are 9 100m turbines going up on the land between the a92 and the mossmorran petrochemical plant what s the big deal i hear you cry well for one thing the visual impact will be extreme for anyone living nearby mossmorran despite being a large industrial site is at least partially hidden by surrounding land and the turbines will be close to loch gelly the loch of the shining waters an important habitat for wildfowl both resident and migratory little raith is shown in blue at the bottom of the graphic far more worrying and i had to double check this is the red area over in the top left it lies within the bounds of the lomond hills regional park or the meedies as it s known locally and is the subject of a planning application for an industrial sized wind factory i can t help but feel that these fuckers are either taking the piss or simply trying to deflect attention away from other sites 2 large turbines recently bypassed the planning process altogether via some deadline related loophole fife council planning dept are currently inundated with applications and at least one councillor has called for a halt until they can work out a coherent strategy local opposition is strong and growing stronger which is great to see but these things are easily missed if you re not actively looking those light blue bits btw are areas marked for housing development that s houses that no one around here can afford or even wants more greenfield concreted over and trees and hedgerows ripped up the horns of the buffalo are closing in and the views that i currently enjoy will disappear one day soon posted by big kev at 12 51 2 comments monday 19 march 2012 photographic memory the woman in the picture below was 70 years old when it was taken she still worked and walked 7 or 8 miles a day every day whatever the weather she d travelled over 50 miles 2 buses to arrive at the appointed place and time dressed for the occasion that was 3 and a half years ago now she has no memory of that day or indeed many other days almost every scrap of her independence is gone alzheimer s is a proper cunt of a disease update bless you all for your kind words i think the worst part of it is that she is occasionally aware of what s happening physically she s hale and hearty but her short term memory is almost non existent day to day stuff that we take for granted is impossible for her she literally couldn t boil an egg and this is a woman once famed for her home baking that s how we knew she was going downhill the tablet and caramel shortbread once highly prized started to be discretely binned tea and toast is about all she can manage these days in a way i m kind of lucky i ve never been terribly close to my mum so i m able to step back a wee bit and be a bit more pragmatic about things it s still hard work but the support we ve had from east lothian council and the local nhs folk has been astounding thank fuck for the professionals and my mrs who is as always my rock posted by big kev at 21 12 7 comments older posts home subscribe to posts atom pages home gaming about me big kev the kingdom of fife scotlandshire united kingdom the opinions expressed herein are mine and do not necessarily reflect those of my family friends or any bastard that employs me view my complete profile this work is licenced under a creative commons licence say whit loading actual outdoorsy blogs aktoman alan sloman ali lay alistair s ebothy backpack brewer baz s backpacking blog bearded git because they re there bigbananafeet blog on the landscape blogpackinglight cameron mcneish chris townsend dave macleod dave mycroft fenlander geoff c hiking and climbing in japan hiking in finland jason klass litehiker geoff london backpacker lost in a forest mac e s stayin alive maple kiwi nielsen brown ptc s world puppy s world puppy less splendid isolation summit and valley the boy hope thunderinthenight 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