It’s never too late and it’s never too early. You’re never too old and you’re never too young. Once he couldn’t wait, now he was throwing on the brakes. Brakes? Hell, he was throwing out an anchor, and a battleship anchor at that. He was philosophical about his decision all the way to the ground floor where a sharp bell-chime and gentle shudder [...]
Posted on January 18th, 2009 by PTC*
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Circumstances can change so fast these days. The girls and I ended up in the Real Food Cafe for lunch today. Chicken, chips and curry sauce all round, and Holly had a go at the tomato soup and crusty bread, but was definitely more interested in our plates. A joy as always. But, and it’s [...]
Posted on January 17th, 2009 by PTC*
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The weather will be deadly dangerous this weekend, or there may only be a slight breeze according to some. It’s looking all blue skies and clouds from the Simpsons opening credits out there at the moment. What the hell, I’m trying to fix at a church heating system in half an hour, so it can do what it wants.
Posted on January 17th, 2009 by PTC*
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Left to right we have the Camcleat Y-pegs, titanium V pegs & aluminium stakes from Alpkit and Terra Nova’s skinny doodahs as bundled with the current Lasercompetition. All but the ones on the left are survivors from last Friday night, and I think you’ll agree it’s not pretty. Looking at the damage it looks like the [...]
Posted on January 16th, 2009 by PTC*
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I liked Patrick McGoohan on screen, he had an intensity and presence, an essence of unpredicatbility and suppressed emotion that would have made him a very different Jimmy Bond to Sean Connery. More Daniel Craig in style I think. One film worth finding is Hell Drivers from ’57 where he plays a thoroughly mean truck driver [...]
Posted on January 15th, 2009 by PTC*
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I’ve only used this bag a handful of times, but it’s been in conditions difficult enough that I feel I’ve got a handle on it. The Combi bag is basically a slightly looser cut down bag that fits over regular PHD lightweight bags. I’ve been using it with the Minim Ultra 900 (featured in the current [...]
Posted on January 14th, 2009 by PTC*
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“If all else fails, and looks like the tent’s getting blown away…put a brew on…”
Posted on January 13th, 2009 by PTC*
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I pulled as many clothes on as I could, and found my headtorch underneath the pile that had made my pillow. The sound was like a rushing waterfall as the air forced itself through every gap in as much volume and with as much speed as it could muster, the sharp cracking of loose fabric [...]
Posted on January 13th, 2009 by PTC*
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Posted on January 12th, 2009 by PTC*
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The old Vauxhall estate that’s carried both tools and ruckacks around the country for me these past few years, and ran itself twice around the clock, finally succumbed to the growing potholes of the A82 and put itself in a financially unvialble position regarding repairs. As luck would have it, a neighbour asked if I [...]
Posted on January 12th, 2009 by PTC*
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Craig phoned as Bobinson and I drove up on Friday, ”Don’t eat too much” he said when i spoke of our plans for lunch at Ft Bill. He’s right, on a trip a couple of years back he and I stopped and had a late and huge lunch which gave me the mobility of a bean bag and [...]
Posted on January 11th, 2009 by PTC*
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Barnaby popped back in to say “Take the gamble, pack the rucksack”. That’s easy for her to say, she’s hanging onto the sturdy bough of a tree because she knows what the wind is going to be like on the tops. But, the decision has been made, we’re going anyway. Where we’re camping is an unknown, but [...]
Posted on January 8th, 2009 by PTC*
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Old gear always comes up doesn’t it? We’re always slipping on a purple patch and landing on an arse covered with Karisma fleece. Everything new is judged on it’s own merits, but also on past experience with stuff which of course “the don’t make it like that anymore”. And they don’t, they make it better, or [...]
Posted on January 7th, 2009 by PTC*
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