Shall I let you into a wee secret?
Nothing to excite MI5 admittedly. It's just that the whole 'Bouncing Bertie' thing is not, these days, an accurate description of my usual demeanour at the break of day in the middle of winter here in Scotland.
In fact Gail has suggested perhaps I should consider renaming this blog 'Bed-loving Bertie'.
In my view, when a chap reaches middle age, he is entitled to a lie in every once in a while.
That said, once I am up and about, and especially when staying at our cottage in Torridon, there is something a bit special about our early morning rambles.
Or perhaps I should say early-ish morning. Here I am yesterday beside the footpath to Wester Alligin sign at a quarter to nine a.m., and it is just light enough for Gail's smartphone camera to capture my handsome figure posing against the loch in the stillness of dawn.
