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Discontinued classics?

You have to wonder at the motivations of companies sometimes. I know that designers occasionally get something out there with a bit of patter and a big smile, or catch the boss on a good day and it gets on the shelves and sits there until the end of season sale comes around. That’s the [...]

Trail Column, March ’08

I liked this one when I wrote it, and then as the weeks went past I forgot all about it. I read it again today in the magazine and I had a wee smile to myself. I always submit way too many words so some gets cut, but the rest is as I wrote it. And as [...]

I’m all upset with it, but still

I was up to my usual antics tonight and took a detour to the Slacks as it’s my least frequented trig pillar in the area. It was dark by this point and the cloud was dropping down so I set off towards the wooded crags and the track down. However Glasgow looked all twinkly from [...]

Crazy cop car chase rescue disaster telly

It keeps several channels afloat by the looks of it. You can’t avoid it, and anyway it’s compulsive viewing. It’s cheap TV, it’s exploitation TV, but it’s also a genuine showcase of the best and worst that people have to offer. Everytime a fleeing drug dealers car is PIT manoevered into barrier in a shower of [...]

Anyway

I sat there for ages waiting for that cloud to clear Gairich so I could get a nice photie. It didn’t and by the time I got back to the motor there was a fine drizzle, but luckily not enough to disuade the midges from coating my coupon and and encouraging the mild panic I [...]

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