Tuesday, 19 April 2016

Not Arran Or 'Why the blazes do we listen to weather forecasts'



Davie C, Davie Mc, Gus, Ian, Jim, Jimmy, Kenny, Malcolm, Rex, & Robert

Oh, Ye of little faith.

   For the second week in a row our trip to Arran was cancelled. Due to a dodgy weather forecast a decision was taken to postpone this trip and go to the Greenock Cut instead – not to everybody’s approval though. ‘Aye, I’ll go but ye cannae make me enjoy it!’ was the comment of one.
   However, to the Greenock Cut we went. This walk has been described many times before in these pages and so needs no further description here. Suffice to say that in order to make it more appealing to the grumpy, we decided to do it in a clockwise direction rather than our usual way. The threatened rain stayed away and at times the sun blinked though spotlighting the landscape and we were treated to some superb views across the Clyde to the Argyll and Dunbartonshire hills, the Arrochar group being pointed out by He who knows these things. Coffee was taken in our usual lunch stop and lunch was had in our usual coffee halt. Who says we are creatures of habit?
  
   The walk took us barely three and a half hours and we were ensconced in the Village Inn in Fairly before two for FRT. And the forecasted rain? It never appeared and the day was fine but cold. So, perhaps next week we will get to Arran. Watch this space!

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