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	<title>Collected Musings of a Hill Wanderer &#187; Ayrshire</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>It would be a pity to see them go</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2011/12/14/it-would-be-a-pity-to-see-them-go/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 07:39:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent poke around the SYHA website revealed some sad news: hostel closures. In total, there have been 46 but 5 of them are facing closure. There&#8217;s Canisbay near John O&#8217;Groats in Caithness, Arden near Loch Lomond and three in the Scottish Borders. These are Broadmeadows, Kirk Yetholm and Melrose. The latter losses will leave [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A year in two halves</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2011/02/02/a-year-in-two-halves/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 20:17:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was one event in my life over the last year that very firmly punctuated the year in outdoors terms: a change of job. Whether it was the cause of putting my hill-going off track or not, there clearly were less outings in the second half of the year and those that were enjoyed weren&#39;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>July</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2010/07/17/july/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 13:44:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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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/outdoors/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>
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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>It wasn&#8217;t sunny everywhere, not that it mattered</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/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>Pondering coastal walking possibilities</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2010/04/28/pondering-coastal-walking-possibilities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 06:40:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With a bank holiday weekend ahead of us, thoughts turn to making use of the extra time. In truth, the pondering started last week and my thinking ended up in Northumberland even if I didn&#8217;t. It&#8217;s been a while since my sole hike by the county&#8217;s coastline near the start of 2006 and, given thatÂ I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some competition for attention</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2010/03/30/some-competition-for-attention/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 19:54:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend should have seen me heading off somewhere for a day trip but nothing of the sort happened. Various excuses could be summoned and fatigue following a busy working week certainly would be among them. Then, there&#39;s the one that you cannot be away every weekend and that&#39;s true too. Still, it would have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Easter journeys</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2009/04/10/easter-journeys/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No doubt, many news outlets are in the throes of reporting the now habitual Easter weekend exodus. My use of the word &#34;exodus&#34; is perhaps not inappropriate given that Jews are celebrating Passover at the moment but a later journey gave us Easter and the weekend that so many are using to their advantage. Conveniently [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Arran adventure</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2006/09/03/an-arran-adventure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Sep 2006 12:25:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Easter,&#160;after a plan to explore Northumberland and the Scottish Borders hadn&#39;t come to fruition, I came up with another idea: Scotland&#39;s Isle of Arran. After all, I fashioned a plan about this time last year&#160;to head there on a Friday afternoon and stay until the following Sunday but it has stayed on the shelf [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Photos of Arran now online</title>
		<link>http://www.johnhennessy.co.uk/outdoors/2006/09/02/photos-of-arran-now-online/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Sep 2006 15:34:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been putting together a new section in my photo gallery dedicated to photos taken when on a quick visit to the Isle of Arran at Eastertime. A teaser is below and you will find the new gallery here. Details of the trip itself will appear in another post.]]></description>
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