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	<title>Collected Musings of a Hill Wanderer</title>
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	<description>Thanks for dropping by. What is now my hillwalking blog started out as a place to put hillwalking trip reports and photo gallery update news. It has since blossomed from those beginnings to take on a life of its own, with the aforementioned being complemented by related topics such as plans for future outings, walking books, outdoors gear, weather, travel and the wonder of nature. Enjoy.</description>
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		<title>Hardly the kind of weather for sunbathing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 18:52:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cheshire has seen many a fast moving spotty rain shower pass over it today and the Met Office&#39;s online rain radar shows more Ireland. In between those, there have been spells of alluring sunshine of the kind that makes wonderful photos. How is it that you need a session of rain for the sunlight to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An alternative choice</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/blog/2010/08/01/an-alternative-choice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2010 19:23:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hillwalking]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, I was in a shop when I overheard someone moaning about the less than exciting weather that has been with us for much of July. Many have very optimistic hopes for the summertime so that sense of frustration was understandable. It&#39;s why it&#39;s best to spread those aspirations around the year instead. Nevertheless, some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stair Rods</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/blog/2010/07/31/stair-rods/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 17:26:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was coming home last night, rain started getting thrown down in torrents as can happen in Cheshire. It was almost as if a foretaste of Autumn was being put our way already. When you end up getting a wetting in that kind of deluge, you have to ask if reservoirs are filling up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>July</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/blog/2010/07/17/july/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 13:44:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Argyll]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[July&#39;s often a month that sends me into a sort of hiatus. Maybe, for all the hopes of scorching summers that seem to circulate every year, it&#39;s because the weather isn&#39;t ever as good as what gets anticipated. This year, it&#39;s being a damp one after the very dry weather of May and June. Having [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sampling Kintyre with Arran and Cowal in View</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/blog/2010/07/14/sampling-kintyre-with-arran-and-cowal-in-view/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 06:20:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Met Office weather forecast for my few days in Arran and Argyll displayed an ever improving trend with Saturday being among the best of the lot. Of course, weather trends can change and there wasn&#39;t as much sun as predicted. However, that has its advantages because cloud shields you from the heat of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drier this time around</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/blog/2010/07/12/drier-this-time-around/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 19:36:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last time I went to Arran, it was during an Easter weekend with a very mixed weather forecast. Despite that, I gained the satisfaction of getting to the top of the island&#39;s highest hill, Goatfell, and a bus ride around the island. What I cannot deny was the existence of low cloud and heavy rain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A spot of virtual DIY</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/blog/2010/07/04/a-spot-of-virtual-diy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 12:38:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A mid-week thumb through the latest edition of Web Designer magazine must have inspired because, on an otherwise lazy weekend, I got to doing some alterations on the appearance of this outpost on the web. Fatigue and work-related distractions aside, I still have it in mind to say say more about last week&#39;s trip to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It wasn&#8217;t sunny everywhere, not that it mattered</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/blog/2010/06/28/it-wasnt-sunny-everywhere-not-that-it-mattered/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 11:38:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Depending on where you were, this past weekend might have felt every bit a scorcher. However, if you were stood around Rest and Be Thankful on Sunday morning, it was not scorching sun that you would have experienced but a soaking from a conveyor belt&#160;dragging showers of rain through the surrounding hills. Having experienced this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An escape ahead?</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/blog/2010/06/22/an-escape-ahead/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 19:54:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a few weeks of being occupied by other matters, I have managed to clear some space for a hill wandering escape. As is my habit with all these things, I&#39;ll keep the details of what I have in mind under wraps for now because plans can change. In fact, it often happens that it&#39;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Edge</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/blog/2010/06/20/edge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jun 2010 19:37:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There may have been wonderful sunny summer weather visiting us over the last few weeks but goings on in my professional life have meant that I haven&#39;t made the kind of use of it that is habitual for me. That&#39;s not to say that there haven&#39;t been restive escapes during the hurly burly. In fact, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Still distracted</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/blog/2010/06/14/still-distracted/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 11:43:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Saturday should have seen me go further afield but another matter meant that I stayed at home. However, I didn&#39;t waste the wonderful weather that came to us entirely because I got out my bike and travelled along some of the local lanes; it&#39;s not the first time that&#160;the handy machine&#160;afforded a quick escape [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Other things on my plate</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/blog/2010/06/01/other-things-on-my-plate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 11:33:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My staying at home over the weekend has less to do with the weather not being all that inspiring. After all, it wasn&#39;t that unpleasant either so an outing wouldn&#39;t have gone amiss. However, there were other things needing doing whose details don&#39;t belong on a blog such as this. Even so, I got to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Catching some sun in Munster</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/blog/2010/05/28/catching-some-sun-in-munster/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 19:22:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend, I crossed the Irish Sea for a more social visit to the southwest of the island where my parents live. While there was a spot of lawn-mowing, hedge-cutting and other bits and bobs to be done, there were chances for limited immersion in hill country too. Friday saw us heading to Gougane Barra [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pondering shock absorption</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/blog/2010/05/18/pondering-shock-absorption/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 11:16:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are many things that I like about my Meindl Burmas but one niggle always been how harshly they treat my feet over hard surfaces like tarmac, gravel or dried out grassland. My recent foray into the Scottish Borders was another reminder of this and I now am minded to look for a solution. What [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A drift away from brevity?</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/blog/2010/05/17/a-drift-away-from-brevity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 11:57:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Though sunny evenings were tempting, this past weekend has been one spent doing other things at home. Getting some trip reports out of the way were among those and the one on a recent trip to the Scottish Borders had me looking at entries from the early days of this blog. What struck me was [...]]]></description>
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