I am a climber, runner (with a Collie), cyclist and swimmer. I was running a small (but perfectly formed) analytics company now employee owned to mark my retirement. Commute between the Highlands and The Borders, campaign for Scottish independence, bake bread and occasionally dabble in bad art.
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Last Notes npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen The dissolution of the UK is getting closer npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Silent Sunday npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Good luck next week npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Come now, no imagination from the writer - I can just see them selling like, um, err, hotcakes with the slogan npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Caturday npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Late afternoon run npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen An occasional running quote revisited npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Politician for sale npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen I have never attended Up Helly Aa, although we did sail up and around Shetland two years ago. But I was reminded by this article and an extremely amusing (he pokes fun at everyone but in a very gentle way) program by Mark Steel from Lerwick, with an accompanying one from Unst. Highly listenable. npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen I see that MSF is one of the aid organisations being banned from working in Gaza. The stated reason is a failure to abide by registration rules, the real reason (imo) is the fact that the organisation provides almost a fifth of medical care in Gaza (and 1/3 of child birth care). Having provided logistics and analytic support to MSF in a number of countries (not Gaza) and seen their work at first hand this disgusts me. npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen A difficult year but I have still managed an average of 25k a day, longest day 87k (running back from Edinburgh) that and the dug is all that has kept me sane npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Evening run npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/jim-beam-bourbon-production-9.7025111 npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Well Canada is not - their largest export customer. Distilleries in the US are closing as a result. npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Having never been a Freemason and not knowingly consorted with them I would suggest on documented hisorial evidence conspiracy theories are not required. npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen A short bibliography of ‘AI’ research fraud npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Morning run npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen The US has both funded and benefited froim superb science in the last 75 years. Those times have come to an end and the rest of the world needs to step up. Sure, it will lead to the continuing deterioration for the US economy, but they voted for it. The rest of us need to fill the gap. And benefit from that. npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Private Schools - what have they brought us? Apparently ‘Waterloo was won the fields of Eton’ (Wellington), of course ignoring the simple fact that Wellington was born in Ireland, and actually the Prussian army played a wee part, what else have they brought us? Corruption, oligarchy, privilege, Brexit and poverty…. npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen McSweeney really does know how to pick them doesn’t he. Leaving aside the affront that is the HoL this is not a good look and just provides the opposition with more ammunition. npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen From 2010 (photographer Lucas Jackson) the Eyjafjallajökull volcano errupts npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Some smashing photography npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Some of these are all too believable…. npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen A German journalist on flotilla accuses Israeli guards of rape npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Jut back from a run and I had to stop partway to laugh out loud. A #BBC #podcast and a reporter was being interviewed. npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen The sleep of the unjust, soooo good npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Boxing Day run npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Could have been worse. My younger brother could have been here. A prize erse npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen #Crises at #Christmas 🎄 npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen An hour or two to kill before I cook dinner for mum and sister, so we decided to get out and shake off the seasonal gloom. Old concrete road to Brampton and then back through Shap to return to the homestead. npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen A January date for trial - this will be an interesting test for the UK Maladministration’s unwise and over broad definition of terrorism,… npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen When we built our company (originally just a three person consultancy), one of the motivations was to allow people to work remotely - and indeed that is what most people do, from the far NorthWest of Scotland and now Iceland) to Germany to the east). We have never regretted it and occasional lapses in ‘quality’ are for reasons that would have happened in anywhere. Trust your colleagues - it works. npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Lunchtime run npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen That kitchen is getting crowded. Who let the dug in? npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Starmer will ‘absolutely’ still be prime minister by next Christmas, says Labour chair – as it happened npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen So more litter and more shite on Borders roads one presumes. Running (5 miles from Hawick and a much longer distance from the nearest McShite ‘restaurant)’ we frequently come across and collect their detritus. 🤬💩 npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Morning walk with a two balls, a thrower and three dugs on the shortest day (photo at 8.37) npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Yes more good news for the shortest day - my heart is positively racing it canna take it 😂 npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen More good news for the shortest day npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Some good news for the shortest day npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen You have to see it tge other 364 days 🫣🤣 npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Makes up foe the weather 🤭 npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Morning run npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Wahey. The winter solstice is only two days away. Sunset is just before 4 on the 21 and then the days get longer - albeit slowly. npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Ahh speaks the man whose calendar is purely culinary 🤣 npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Just round the corner…. npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Morning run - couldn't sleep, so got out before it started belting down again… npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen John #Crace spots two, yes two decent #Christmas jokes (for the commons anyway) from #Starmer npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen If he wins, our national broadcaster could be wrecked - and license fee payers could be stuck with the bill. npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Combining palaeontology with rock climbing - ideal for sone one (although one assumes that they will abseil down for further study, but still a head for heights will be a must). npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen EU backs down from mandating no new fossil fuel cars npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Caturday npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Just a reminder that defending the Jury system by quoting Magna Carta is misguided. There are much better examples in more modern England. npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Dorothy Parker and a couple of ‘lost ‘ poems and more npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen This will be delightful if it happens.. npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Ever had one of those days you just don’t feel like getting up? npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Morten Morland on Trump, Europe and Putin npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen I can feel the sugar rush from here… npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen The Entente Cordiale has been given a boost by a French Academic attributing much of the development of Champaign to English merchants in the C17 as opposed to Benedictine Monks. I can see this argument (although the article is worth a read and he has a point possibly) is going to run and run and run. npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Why Shortened URLs Pose a Security Risk npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Glasgow, tolerance and Farage npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Storm Bram (or should that have been Bam?) npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen The facts behind the reporting - not that you would know from much of the coverage by the MSM npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Corruption and the British Virgin Islands npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Afternoon run npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen There are so many reasons to visit Glasgow - my top 25 would not fit in a toot. npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen It is remarkable what sort of news the BBC do not wish to cover. I don’t watch their television so must take that on trust, but looking at the BBC news site, this is not even touched upon. Hunger strikes in NI, and more recent ones, yes, but this no. I do wonder who the corporation represents - it certainly is not most of the UK. npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen But to be fair to my sparse caption, which of those people working to clear a pool in China is Chi Shiyong🤔 npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen We have broken the ice to swim but these lads in Daqingin, China are really serious. In contrast our ice last year 🤣 npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen A Journalist Reported From Palestine. YouTube Deleted His Account Claiming He’s an Iranian Agent. npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen The BBC responds to Farage bait npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Nature turns npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Facial recognition and the English maladministration npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen So who doesn’t like a hamper of puppies for a Monday morning? (OK maybe Pi our black cat 🙀 who struggled with just one, while his tabby brother 😼 just got on with bringing the collie up in his own image) npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Reading/looking at pictures npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen The author intended to write a balanced column about US security strategies but gave up in disgust. Instead, a relatively polite account of a mafia state in the making is presented. npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Afternoon run npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Reform tactics laid bare. But organisations such as the BEEB continue to fawn over and prostrate themselves at Farage’s feet. npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Caturday npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Caturday. npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Good news on the red squirrel front npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen The bicycle - as it has been since its popularity grew, a tool for empowerment and freedom npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen AI, power and Scotland npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen A good article by Hastings, reflecting on both Maduro’s and Trumps venality and the continuing issue of the deliberate destruction of a rule of law, implications within the US itself and Trumps decline to dementia. npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Afternoon run. With accompanying Floyd. Another lovely day, but those clouds heading from the west look ominous for tomorrow. npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Continuing a hallowed British tradition - covering up for your allies and customers npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen A very British public enquiry npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen My photograph of the day npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen The fine art of parliamentary insults npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Alternative explanations exist! The word hypothesis has been chosen for obvious reasons, I have a number of others…. npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen The British public are chumps. Of course it is a feel good Christmas film. Home alone is NOT. Discuss npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Or ‘How Cats domesticated us’ npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Macabbi Ban npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen 🤪 npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen In der Realität isst er Nägel zwischen gusseisernen Scheiben und spült sie mit Motoröl hinunter. npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen There may be many reasons to criticise the budget, but I have to say my heart really went out to these people… npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Silent Sunday npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Not content with shitting over the Middle East, the US (well Trump) looks like kicking the same crap off in South America, Maduro is appalling (as were Sadat and Assad) but look at the devastating results of US (and broader Western ) thoughtless interventions in the Middle East. Everyone suffers. npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Caturday npub13hx660ckmh89u8dpy9vd278un5zjvc0c2cw2az4msgjyhms3ft4q5f7a03 Wen Love the self imposed satire
