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Bryan Hall's avatar

Ron - one of your best pieces yet IMHO I can taste the bed and smell the dankness, whilst still revelling in surviving the crossing

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Ronald Turnbull's avatar

Thanks Bryan! It was a great day and a half, but I am not sure I'd be so happy with it in a normally soggy spring.

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Bryan Hall's avatar

Timing is everything, speaking as a Dartmoor wanderer

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Mike Sowden's avatar

Your writing is a treat. I feel like I need to kick mud off my boots.

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Ronald Turnbull's avatar

Well Rannoch is likely to have the opposite effect!

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Squire's avatar

I've always enjoyed looking over at Rannoch Moor from the mountains to the west, and once from a Corbett to the east and the mountains around Loch Ossian. I've not yet ventured onto it. Too many worrying legends...

In Gaelic, leathad generally translates as a modestly inclined slope, making Leathad Mor "Big slope". Also, I believe Pheadair is the genitive of Peadar, thus meaning of (red) Peter, rather than of (red) Patrick.

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