lost

Well, faithful readers, here I am in sunny Ullapool. Well, it was sunny all the way over and would've been sunny here too only the sun'd gone behind the hills when we arrived.

You may prepare yourselves for tales of derring-do in this western outpost! How do I know this? It's all based on experience, and my experience of the last three days has been somewhat lost. My experience wasn't lost, I was! Ever day - Thursday, Friday and now today. All in different places, too - the only similarity being that I was walking the dogs. God knows they're no use in a crisis, they just run around oblivious, thinking they're having a gemmy long walk today!

Thursday was in one of the parks, we went a different way through the woods and ended up somehow in the local crematorium remembrance garden. I realised this when I noticed Murphy sniffing at something that I'm pretty sure was sonebody's ashes, while there were lots of shop-bought bunches of flowers scattered round the place... and I could hear people arriving in cars, eek! A quick duck under a line of trees, across a ditch with a burn in it (thank the lord for wellies) and a scramble through various trees and we finally got back to the proper path.

Friday, I tried a different path, up a hill along what was supposed to be a "circular path" of 2 miles. After an hour of wandering round the hill following sheep tracks, my battery was dying (after 3 minutes of Google maps) and I had to text R to say that if I wasn't home when he got back from work I was lost on this hill somewhere! Luckily my sheep tracks (through wet bracken and gorse) turned out good and we made it out alive.

And today? You'd've thought I was safe, being with R this time. Bu-u-u-u-t. we were working from different pages. I navigated to the carpark but then R was navigating some walk on his phone. And assumed it was a completely different carpark we were aiming for on the way back. Not really a problem (although the dogs were getting a bit suspicious as we passed the same pond for the third time) except it added on an extra forty minutes walk, just when we were in a hurry to get to the pub for lunch before they stopped serving.

So ... tune in for more mishaps!