448: Deer, dear, dear

Three words that sound the same in English but have different meanings. Two of them are homonyms (words that are spelled the same and sound the same but have different meanings) and the third is a homophone (a word that has the same sound but is spelled differently and has a different meaning). How did I get here, dear? On our walk yesterday we came across the leg of a deer hanging from the upright post of a fence. It's just the leg - our suspicion is that the deer got trapped trying to get over the fence and, over time, the deer starved to death and the rest of it, minus the leg, was eaten by some of the wild animals that roam these hills. See if you can spot the leg in one of the pictures. Two walks for the price of one in the blog today. On 3rd September Alisdair and I walked around Loch Badanoch and had a very nice luncheon in the Garvault Country House Hotel - the most remote hotel in mainland Britain - washed down with a local beer from the Orkney Islands. Thankfully, it wasn't my turn to drive so Alisdair got to watch me enjoying the beer! Yesterday we chose a route closer to home, behind Golspie village and up in the hills. Surprisingly, we shared the hill (Ben Bhraggie - 397 metres above sea level) with a mountain biking competition. The hills were alive, to the sound of music and the swish of bike wheels on the tracks.  

Thursday 3rd September - 19,723 steps 

 

Sunday 20th September = 17,877 steps

 

The 'stats' for both of these walks give the impression that we are 'dawdling'! Please be aware that walking cross country, in the hills, through the heather and the gorse and the bogs is not conducive to a fast speed. That's my excuse  and I'm sticking to it.

Minus 10 points to the new blogger.com interface and to the new face book interface, both of which are causing me grief and annoyancee! Why do these people automatically assume they know what we want? I suspect the majority of us were quite happy with what we had before.

Each day it looks more and more as though many European (and world) coutnries will be reimposing national lockdowns in the very near future in another attempt to bring the coronavirus under control.  Again. Isn't it incredible the number of people, of all ages, who think that the rules, introduced for the benefit of the whole community, don't apply to them.