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The toughest day I like to recall 26 2 18

Scotland..? 19 6 13 (6) 25 2 3 That is to say the only new peaks I managed to climb in 2019 were all climbed or at least summitted  in Mist and Rain, and on one occasion, the worst day when it rained pretty much without respite for all 13 hours I was out in it! That then is the bad news!! And the good? That in order to climb these 3 new summits involved me in 3, 4 and 3 days subsisting in the Scottish outback: walking and climbing and/or spending the second of two consecutive rainy days simply drying out my equipment, and resting to recover my strength. Adrenalin the unmistaken driving force for such activities..? 19 6 14 This second outing turned out to being in still more sustained falling rain and mists, to the extent that I walked 8 hours before gaining my main summit objective in altogether more strenuous conditions than I had bargained for, but when wearing a pair of shorts under my waterproof over-trousers I continued beyond dusk to finish my walk some 13 hours afte...
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One of the reasons for writing stuff down..? 26 2 28

Or, maybe the reason for reading someone else's blog? To do with the written word being so final so long as it remains so uncorrected? Giving one a stated position from which to move forward: from the readers perspective, "Ah! So that's his, her latest offering..!? Now as my reading increasingly becomes more selective, it's a toss up between writing something more, or reading what someone has already written!? Like dipping into that Erica Blair story, aka George Orwell, to the less initiate. And reading some of his earlier works, it is easy to believe he had at first difficulties getting published. Until that is his books became so insightful: one of my favourites "The Road to Wigan Pier", an interesting title for the land-locked West Lancashire town of Wigan, a short enough distance from the towns of my childhood. Once as a young school boy I wrote affectionately of "Wigan on a Waggon" instead simply as "Wigan" because I'd grown ...
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On the day of my conception 1939 2 26...2026 2 26

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Of course no-one can be so precise about the day they were conceived but the actual day is of little consequence except to say this momentous event took place around this time of year at least from where I am sitting..? Talking to my sister the other day about such family matters she recounted the year she was married on the 20th February instead of February 28th her first choice because our mother had announced that day is her wedding day, a full year before my day of conception I might add...Though Alice our mother had cause to blush in connection with some of these goings on when in another year she announced “Today is my Silver Wedding Anniversary”... the embarrassment to do with the fact someone commented how that wasn’t possible because of her having an almost 25 year old son at the time in addition to yours truly a mere 23..! A lost J, her husband to WW ll and for one reason or another didn't re-marry. But one can speculate that maybe my conception may have b...
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Meeting with 2 fellow Icy-Sea Visitors..? 26 2 21

Yeah, this am just after I had taken my dip but upon arriving to our Changing Room hearing these ladies' voices after their taking their respective dips in the ice cold sea before me. Which to say I didn't take the trouble to descend the steps with giant ice-pick and spade, one in each hand, before stripping off to my nothings, on this day because the women's voices had flagged up everything was cosher, in order to take my dip... when to my surprise it was as if the opening was covered in ice, with water flowing out of its southern rim, since overnight the Sea level had risen... But because I knew the women had visited, I descended anyway, when sure enough the surface ice simply moved away, as I too descended the depths to sit and flap about in zero degC, to get my endorphin/ adrenaline shots for this day of Saturday Feb 21st 2026... So here's the thing: as I'd dried off and dressed, I hear footsteps approaching the outer door, so open the men's inner door to ...
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Hoax Hoax Hoax J. Hopkins Oncology Hoax Hoax Hoax... 26 2 19

from using micro wave ovens, requiring stovetop or oven heating instead... NOW FOUND TO BE A HOAX, SORRY Patient outcome data showed microwave-banned patients achieved 94 % tumour stabilization rates compared to 34 % in microwave using controls despite identical chemotherapy protocols. 2. The molecular biology reveals the mechanism. Microwave radiation at 2.4 GHz doesn't just heat food -- it changes protein molecular structure by flipping water molecules 2.5 billion times per second. This creates denatured proteins and free radicals that healthy cells can process, but cancer cells absorb these damaged molecules preferentially, using them as building blocks for rapid division. 3. Hopkins tracked 2,800 cancer patients over 5 years across both groups. No-microwave-using group : 89 % tumour shrinkage or stabilisation, 67 % entered remission, minimal side effects from treatment. Microwave-using group : 58 % tumour progression despite treatment, 23 % remission rates, heightened infla...
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Getting to know who we are at the end of the day..? 26 2 15

re-writing what I have just lost...on yesterday's St Valentine's Day: in Finland Friendship Day That is or was meeting the Captain and an encapsulation of the person he met from a later reflection.. When I recalled one of my last walks in the Cairngorm mountains of Scotland in 2019 when I took this taxi prearranged to collect me at 7 am this particular autumnal morning with sun shining... Beinn a'Ghlo the peak or collection of peaks maybe 4 or 5 in total I had visited several times in the past but this day hoping to complete my assalt? Then coming upon three others each carrying much heavier ruck sacks, the two together having caught the third man with the heaviest sack, my day pack the lightest of the four. Me by this time somewhat intoxicated with the adrenalin or endorphins released on my ascent so far of maybe an hour's hard up-hill hiking. But not someone greeted by this trio for they were far too engrossed in discussing the going whilst carrying their heavy s...
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Today's Avanto and t Captain in our Special Forces..? 26 2 13

Read 26 2 12 for Today's Avanto, i.e. the action taking place yesterday! I had just left t "Koppe" our changing room on the Ladies' Beach where the town has its Swimmers' hut above rocks with a heated staircase in winter to preclude the steps freezing over with any water draining from the sea dippers: ladies' thru the right swinging door men to the left... As usual I was all pumped up with feel good chemicals be they endorphins or adrenalin running across this sun glasses wearing man, smart phone in his hands, straddling his Mountain bike, taking pics of our Koppe or its surroundings...clear we should exchange the greeting "Morjesta"(meaning "from the sea!") Very soon he was complimenting me on my "excellent Finnish", not so excellent it didn't betray an underlying foreign accent, but good enough for his not to have started speaking English, before I admitted to being English by birth... Then when he switched into English, ...
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