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Sunday Run Photos

Finished Week 4 of my 8 week Zombies, Run! 5k training today with a nice run along the Nairn river/Cawdor trail.

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It’s a really fun trail to jog along, though once you pass the Firhall Bridge it climbs steeply only a narrow “cliffside” trail and becomes a walking/hiking trail that’s not much use for running.

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The trail extends waaaay past my little red line to Cawdor in the bottom-left. I’m hoping to go the full journey some time, but I’ll definitely not be running! Maybe I’ll walk it with Dave one sunny weekend.

Friday Run Photos

A few photos from my Friday run along the Nairn beach path, a nice little 3km round trip. This was on the west side of the beach, which is taken up with red sandstone rock pools more than sand.

I prefer to run along very quiet trails, so I was a bit nervous about going along a more popular walking path. But it was blowing a hoolie out there and the path was quiet.

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Day Out

It was a nice day out in Nairn today, and I was itching for some photos of my new haircut, so we took a walk around the area to get a few snaps.

We’ve had a heatwave over the last few days, so the beach and pools have been packed. Today was windier, overcast and much cooler, which isn’t so much fun for beach-goers but made for some lovely photography weather.

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Backlash Against Highland News

A Highland News article which referred to an incident in Nairn of a 22 year old male “culpably and recklessly causing boiling water to pour from a kettle” (quote from Sheriff Court) onto a 19-year-old girl as “sprinkled boiling water …. to wake her up”  and landing the attacker “in hot water” has provoked anger on Facebook.

The Highland News article focuses on quotes from the accused male with a notable lack of the victim’s point of view, so I thought I’d post something the victim herself said on the Facebook page:

“I am disgusted and let down that not a single newspaper so far has printed a word from my side of the story or the truth. How can they manage to get the story correct when they can’t even get the boys age right. I thought these boys were my friends but obviously I was wrong.

I was asleep in the bedroom which is a corridor and two rooms away from the kitchen. They boiled the kettle, put the water into a cup, came through to the bedroom and then poured it on me as one of them recorded it. There were five of them there and only one of them would help me even though I was screaming in pain, the others decided to stand round and laugh. I asked one of the boys to phone an ambulance and he told me he did even though one still never arrived 20 minutes later.

Once I managed to get myself up out the bed I started to walk home by myself as none of them could take time out of their jokes and phone calls to check if I was okay, let alone if I was still in the flat. When I managed to get home my brother and sister ran to my aid phoning the ambulance and police straight away. A sprinkle of water would not leave an entire area on my body without any skin left at all, it also wouldn’t leave the police, nurses and CID lost for words upon first seeing it and the only words they could utter afterwards were either ‘I have never seen anything like this’ or ‘I haven’t seen anything like this in a very long time’. My ‘friends’ planned to video me as they poured boiling water onto me while I slept and all found it hilarious – I seriously do not understand how that is an accident.”