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	<title>Collected Musings of a Hill Wanderer &#187; Outdoor Activities</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>Amazing what a little sunshine can do</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2012/05/20/amazing-what-a-little-sunshine-can-do/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 19:57:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Somewhat infuriatingly for me, I am nursing yet another cold as I write these words. Was it the milder winter that made them more prevalent or are those long working hours finally catching up with me? It might be a bit of both in reality and, since it is overcast where I am this weekend, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emerald Inspirations</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2012/04/21/emerald-inspirations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2012 11:45:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A trip to Ireland in March may have taken the form of an elongated weekend that involved no hill wandering (there was some urban trotting around Limerick that took in its People&#8217;s Park and Arthur&#8217;s Quay though) but the warm sunny day on which I needed to leave the place to return to the U.K. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Following a North Sea coastline</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2012/03/12/following-a-north-sea-coastline/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 07:23:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After having thought of it for a few Saturdays, I finally sorted myself for a walk by Northumberland&#8217;s coastline from Alnmouth to Embleton. It had been January 2006 when I last walked from Alnmouth to Craster. Then, the hoped for combination of blue skies and sunshine didn&#8217;t materialise so photographic opportunities were limited. While amazed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A trot through three counties</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2012/03/04/a-trot-through-three-counties/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Mar 2012 18:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2011, most of my walking trips took me outside of England with both Scotland and Wales featuring strongly. The first outing of the year took me to Wales and trips to other Celtic countries followed before any sort of hike took place on English soil and took until April before it took place. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A hub for numerous hill country wanderings</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2012/03/03/a-hub-for-numerous-hill-country-wanderings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2012 20:35:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[January&#8217;s walk from the Cat and Fiddle Inn to Buxton caused me recall other walks that started or ended at the Cat and Fiddle Inn. When I set to pondering the trip report for that hike, the idea of collecting them together as a preamble to the trip report was stymied by there being so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reminders of past outings</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2012/02/20/reminders-of-past-outings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:32:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My first two major walking outings of this year have been in parts of England and they share one thing in common: they are reminders of past excursions. The second of these happened over the weekend and took me to Northumberland where I walked along the coast from Alnmouth to Embleton and took in  Dunstanburgh [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not short on places to go for a stroll</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2012/02/16/not-short-on-places-to-go-for-a-stroll/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 21:25:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before the snow arrived at the start of the month, I took the opportunity to pop out for a lunchtime from work to take in The Carrs in Wilmslow. Though I&#8217;d skirted the public park a fair few times, it was the first time that I&#8217;d deliberately walked through the place only to realise that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A freezing February</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2012/02/11/a-freezing-february/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:28:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This day last week, a weather front was making its way down Britain throwing out good coverings of snow as it did so. Macclesfield didn&#8217;t escape either though it sounds as if other places got more; there were several inches left on cars in Harlow in Essex last Saturday night. Transport got disrupted too and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stiffness</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2012/01/17/stiffness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:03:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Weatherwise, 2012 started like a lion in some parts with Scotland getting a particular battering. Before that the second day of the year saw me crossing hills to pop over to Buxton. That act planted in my mind the prospect of exploring more of Macclesfield&#8217;s hills this year. However, the following weekend was a quiet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A new jacket from a January sale</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2012/01/09/a-new-jacket-from-a-january-sale/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:59:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One thing that perplexes me about down-filled duvet jackets is that they&#8217;re incompatible with rain. It was something that dawned on me over the Christmas and I was mulling over the idea of acquiring one with a water-resistant coating. However, this winter has turned out largely mild away from Scotland and the cost of such [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wasn&#8217;t expecting to see any snow</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2012/01/02/wasnt-expecting-to-see-any-snow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 20:54:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today came as a lovely sunny if chilly day around Macclesfield so thoughts turned to a little trip out of doors. A certain lethargy meant that I couldn&#8217;t muster up enthusiasm for a wander on foot through the countryside so I went by bus through the hills to Buxton instead. Looking through the bus windows, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And so to 2012</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2012/01/01/and-so-to-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 07:32:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having had a few days to catch up with a few recent issues of TGO, a realisation has popped into my mind: maybe basing myself somewhere on a trip away might allow me to get more from it, especially for those places that take a little longer to get to them. Using Dunoon as a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A look back at 2011</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2011/12/26/a-look-back-at-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 07:43:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For me, 2011 will have to be seen as one when work very much got in the way of hill wandering. Even if it did, I did get out on quite a few excursions over its course and some of them took me places where I hadn&#8217;t been before then. Also, there was a sense [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Going to Gower</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2011/12/25/going-to-gower/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Dec 2011 07:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[July turned out to be a month when I was away for four weekends in a row and I decided that the same would apply to the fifth one to make a clean sweep. As it happened, August became a quiet month for hill wandering even if I had a few days off from work [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Surveying castles and coastline on either side of the Menai Strait</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2011/12/24/surveying-castles-and-coastline-on-either-side-of-the-menai-strait/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 19:53:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The third weekend in July brought plenty of bright sunshine. It was enough to get heading to northwest Wales, albeit with a later start that got delayed further thanks to a problem on the West Coast Mainline around its Trent valley section. Nevertheless, my plan to revisit Caernarfon after an absence for quite a few [...]]]></description>
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