This is another track written for my "Clutha Project" - songs inspired by or linked to the River Clyde. In this case it relates to fading memories of a day when I was about 20yrs old, and in a period of unemployment whilst living with my parents in a village on the north side of the Clyde. Whilst bumming around on the beach, I looked across Loch Long at Blairmore Hill, which stands at about 1000ft, looking over the Firth of Clyde and remarked that there must be a bloody good view from the top of that hill. The two mates I was with agreed and as we pondered this, we hit upon the idea of rowing across in a dinghy owned by the father of one of my mates to Blairmore, from  where we would ascend the hill. The plan was agreed and the next day we set off on a beautiful and still summer's day, armed with some sandwiches and drink and only a rudimentary idea of how steep this hill might be. It turned out to be very steep and took us a long time to scramble up and we were bitten by lots of ferocious midges as we climbed. When we got to the top, we felt like we had really achieved something and sat down to eat our picnic in triumph. It was at this point we noticed that there was in fact a far easier route on the other side of the hill that we could have walked up. We admired the view (it was excellent as we had surmised...) and took some photos. I scratched my name onto a piece of flat stone and added it to the small cairn that stood at the top of the hill. We then set off back down to the shore, using the same steep route as before, as to take the easy route down would have been defeatist. The tiny village of Blairmore at the bottom had a single shop-cum-post office and we entered it to stock up on refreshments. The post-master instantly saw we were not local (on that side of the Loch, anyway...)and asked with some suspicion what we were up to. We told him of our valiant climb and I said to him "It's a wonderful view from up there, isn't it?" (naturally assuming he would have gone up there as he lived next to it). "I wouldn't know, " he said. "I've never been up there." Have you not lived here for very long then?" says I. "Only 24 years," he said. "It's been on my to-do list, but I just never got round to it." 

"Does running this shop keep you really busy then?" I asked. "Not that busy," he admitted. "I guess I wasn't that bothered about doing it after all...."

I've never been back up that hill since then but I'm glad I did it at least the once. We spend a lot of time and resources going away on holidays to far-flung places and so often we are blind to the beauty of what is actually around us or on our own doorstep.
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This track contains ambient recordings made by "juskiddink" which he has released on the FreeSound website for general use under CC Licence:
https://freesound.org/people/juskiddink/sounds/101921

The female vocalists are 8DIO's Laurie Anne Haus and SoundIron's Linda Strawberry Coloma. The scratchy male vocals are by me... :-)

The image is provided courtesy of the excellent photographer Colin Milne (@argyll66 ). Check out his work on Instagram.
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Blairmore Hill

Pull on the oars
Slide over the water
Over the glitter
That pours from the Sun.

The gulls are above us
Blairmore is before us
We'll climb up that summit
Before this day's done.

When you are youthful
No river can stop you
No mountain's too high
As you reach for the sun

When you are older
You lose your momentum
As you stop to look backwards
At all you have done.

Take care to remember
That view from the summit
For once you have climbed it
You have to come down.

(c) enlimila 24/08/2018

Blairmore Hill (Clutha Project)

(Clutha Project) Blairmore Hill

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(Clutha Project) Blairmore Hill

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