If you hop in the car and turn left out of Roughstones, you drive for 3 miles along a single lane farm road, passing fields full of naughty sheep, hay bales, and the occasional osprey hunting for small animals.  You turn north at Blairgowrie, the nearest sizeable town (by which I mean it has a Tesco Superstore), and take the Old Military Road into the Cairngorm Mountains.  You begin climbing gradually as you wind your way above the farm fields and whitewashed cottages.  If you keep going for an hour, and stop at the Devil’s Elbow lookouts, you see this:

I sat down next to a patch of heather and gazed at the purple mountains, while Ian practiced his fell running, crossing the small burn below the lookout.

If you continue a bit further to Cairnwell Pass, the highest public road in Britain, you can pull in at the Glenshee Ski Centre.  On a nice day like today, you can take the summer chairlift up to Cairnwell Peak,and see this: 

If you then retrace your steps back home, you can return to Roughstones, and see this:

Then you can head inside and have fresh laid scrambled eggs on toast for lunch, followed by home-made brownie cake (non gluten free so I have to eat it all by myself).

Today’s step count is nowhere near 16,000. Or even 6,000. But my calorie count is way over target.