Season 2014

[El Gordo]

Thanks Andy, that is praise indeed. It's all pretty simple stuff and I am certainly envious of the sheer range of language you and Sweder use.
It's funny, my job as a teacher over here is usually to do the opposite, to simplify and reduce language to a bare, functional medium of communication. Anyway, I'm looking forward to reading your next updates. We're due a new installment! Would love to walk those Swiss trails one day....

My job also involves editing/rewriting the work of others, and the irony is that I'm always trying to bang out the "less is more" lesson (particularly to my German colleagues who love over-complex, technical language). Physician heal thyself.

I try. A few weeks ago, I wanted to post a brief review of "Boyhood", a movie that I knew would cause a stir, but which I managed to see in a preview several weeks before it was due for release in the UK. So I wrote my brief review, which then expanded to talk about going to the cinema in Switzerland, which then became something else entirely, and currently is about 3,500 words -- and unposted while I think about where my India photographs may be stored. Yes, India photographs. It's my self-diagnosed Adult ADHD. Nothing is fixed; nothing remains what it was 2 minutes ago, never mind yesterday or last week.

As for walks, I have 2 unposted pieces about legs 4 and 5 of my walk, the second of which was quite dramatic, as in life-and-death dramatic (sort of). If I stuck to the walk it would be OK, but I had to meander to Everest and beyond, and this is where it gets out of control. And there's the trip to Dacchau and Bayern Munich, semi-finished but not delivered. Maybe when the moment has passed... the moment has passed. At the minimum, I must get the cinema one up.

Anyway, I can assure you there are plenty of people here who love those quirky tales of Spanish hill running, so please continue. Must dig out the earlier reference to Los Capelos. And thanks heavens for Googlegogogoch, eh?

Fantastic picture, by the way. "Fantastic" as in... what fantastic means.