Davey Fire Eater and I are on the forest track high above Glen Shiel on the slopes of Sgurr a BheaIaigh Dheirg, the peak of the red pass, one peak along the ridge from the Five Sisters of Kintail. We are a good team, me and Davey. He is energetic, fiery, determined – a climber with a bit of the circus about him. As for my qualities, you’ll have to let Fire Eater be the judge of them. We are good, anyway – fast enough for the Forestry Commission Work Study team to use us in their studies sometimes, and for Davey and me to make the big pays he needs to roar around the dance hall circuit at the weekends, breathing fire.
Great piece; worthy sentiments.