Ian, I've got a public footpath right through the farm, no problem with that - and walkers in fields are perfectly legal an'all. Its the ones who leave their litter bags outside our back door - or worse just dump it on the track that annoy me - a used nappy just by the hen-house last summer. My real pet hate is the clowns who think that they can get through into the forest in vehicles. They can't, locked Forestry gates etc, so they come up here and turn or on a couple of occaisions, just dump vehicles and toddle off for a walk/fish/p*sh-up. Reason for my annoyance - other than their cheek and my privacy ? - Our track has been an ice-rink for 5 weeks now, there is an adverse camber leading to a 10 foot drop into the river right by an old stone bridge - a listed building. If some clown messes that up and takes out the bridge parapet I'll be the one left with the bill for repairing it - to Hysterical Scotlands standards. And as for the scum who sully the name of fishermen with their burnt out tents and heaps of broken bottles and cans after a weekends "fishing", well they have ruined the idea of "wild camping" and the National Park are working on By-Laws to ban camping other than on organised camp-sites - Will be in force on Lomond any time soon and elsewhere across the Park after that.
