Hi John and Alan. Yes, sure, I'll report when I get a chance. And I'll try to learn to do something a bit less amateurish than my usual - something involving maps maybe! I've been having a busy time since return; had just got all my grubby stuff clean & dried when I went down with something that effectively flattened me for a week. When normally blessed with unfairly good health, one doesn't take kindly to that.... So there's rather a lot of catching up to do, and we've had family celebrations too.

I think "they" must have taken pity on me, after two years in the runners-up lists.....

At least in a way this releases me from my own compulsion to try every year to go mainly where I've never been before: already stated my intention to do the most sociable route possible for my 10th! D'you reckon I'll be sober enough to reach Montrose??

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