Showing posts with label mither tap. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mither tap. Show all posts

Sunday, 10 February 2008

The Moorhound of Bennachie!

I'm knackered! I've just spent 5 hours this afternoon trekking across the five tops of Bennachie, and it took about 5 hours from start to finish. I'm not going to type much, the only peak of any magnificence was the one seen below, the Mither Tap, the last of the 5 for us. After which the long slog back to the car park was fairly tortuous!




Could this be the hiding place of the mysterious Moorhound of Bennachie. Sorry if you don't get that, you really had to be there (family joke of the day).

Saturday, 9 February 2008

Barbarian Wormhole Summit!


I read yesterday that scientists want to create a wormhole, which will allow people from the future to travel back to this time. The wormhole thing's a bit vague though. I'm not sure they should be allowed to just create a wormhole. Aren't wormholes theoretical concepts? They might create a paradox. In other related news, Russian scientists are also claiming that they are on the verge of developing time travel. It's all quite exciting and at the same time, fairly scary. I always go back to the Ray Bradbury short story I read in school, where one of the central characters went back to a time before men, where they tried hard not to do anything paradoxical, but accdentally bent the stem of a single flower. The long and the short of which was that when they returned to the present, all writing was backwards.

There are a couple interesting programmes on telly this week. In about an hour's time, there's a show about the Dead Sea Scrolls. Very hotly protected by the Cathoilc faith, because they know and we know that the contents could utterly destroy their version of biblical events. As history tells us, they'll do "anything" to protect the faith, because faith is far more important than the truth. On Wednesday evening, there will be a program about Attila the Hun airing. I'm looking forward to that. Apparently he was vastly intelligent and complex, while still possessing the brutality and penchant for violence that made him the lovable rogue he was.

Hillwalking on Bennachie tomorrow looks like it will go ahead. We had a lovely day here today and if it's the same tomorrow, we'll have a great time. As usual, I'll be sure to take some photos for you. I'm certain that the view from the summit of the "Mither Tap" will be well worth the exertion taken to get up there in the first place.