"A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving." - Lao TzuWe were planning a hiatus to our walk over Christmas 2021, however we were hoping for this to be quite short and were planning to do the West Highland Way in the spring. Alas, Jennie has incurred a troublesome foot injury which is limiting her to walks of about 30 minutes. We have therefore had to postpone the next major leg of our trip whilst she recovers. To allay some of the frustration Jennie has joined an art group in Dundee! For the past couple of months she has completed a triptych based on the Clyde section of our walk. Where rambling may have faltered, art has triumphed! The canvas is now complete, with the title "The Clyde A Cloud", taken from a poem by Hugh MacDiarmid. Hopefully we'll be able to pick up the West Highland Way in the autumn, but in the meantime we are going to take a trip to Orkney in May where we can visit no less than 12 RSPB bird reserves! Whilst this is not technically part of our walk, it might be considered a diversion from it, seeing as we will actually go beyond mainland Scotland when we get the ferry from Scrabster. Jennie will no doubt have chance to develop some more bird sketches like those below and I might get around to contributing to the RSPB's blog about our walk so far. We hope you are enjoying the spring and getting out and about on your own wanders!
All the best Words by Matthew Drawings by Jennie
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