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Canadian Rockies: Flashback in Sundance Canyon

The skiing and trekking in the Rockies are finished now and I’m back home.  But there are still a couple of things to write about. Beginning with my jaunt to Sundance Canyon.  I went there first in January 2011 after … Continue reading

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Independence, risk and narrow escapes.

I was brought up in an area of Salford near Manchester described in a book by Robert Roberts called ‘The Classic Slum’, an appellation coined for it in the mid 19th Century by Friedrich Engels who had interests in cotton … Continue reading

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