The plan was changed. Nobody cared, no tears, no snotters, only a big bastard grin.
And so to bed.
Posted on May 30th, 2009 by PTC*
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I met up a pal who’s in the trade for lunch today, and he or she told me stuff about one beloved UK brand that made the frothy coffee that I’d just taken a mouthful of come out of my nose. There will be much joy, much joy, in the middle distance. It’s so exciting, I just have to tell [...]
Posted on May 28th, 2009 by PTC*
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I wish computers were like they are in the sci-fi world. You know, cramped chambers full of lights that you slide slices of toast made of crystral in and out of titanium toast racks to change things about and restore the force field or disengage the alien entity’s consciousness from the ships brain and save the [...]
Posted on May 27th, 2009 by PTC*
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My utensil dilemma for the coming weekend was solved when the rattling inside my box of Expedition Foods turned out to be a long handled spoon.
An orange long handled spoon. Praise be to Jimmy!
Posted on May 26th, 2009 by PTC*
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What we have above is an example of modern life’s inability to enforce natural selection.
It’s a street in Glasgow’s city centre, and it’s one-way as you’ll see from the approaching cars and the cars parked at the kerb on the far side. The parking on my side is the 45°, gravity assisted, reverse-in type that [...]
Posted on May 26th, 2009 by PTC*
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Baselayers, it’s always baselayers. It’s merino or synthetic, zip-neck or crew neck.
Well actually, it isnae really.
I pulled Haglöfs’ Jura out of the wrapper and stuck it on, thinking it would be nice for the drive up to Glen Coe, but like the Ventilators, I just kept it on.
It’s a nice slim fit, good length on the body [...]
Posted on May 25th, 2009 by PTC*
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I originally saw Haglöfs’ new Escape Ventilator shoes a while back, but as samples are always size 8’s I couldn’t try one on until a production test pair arrived on Friday morning.
I took them out of the box, stuck them on, thought “They feel okay”, jumped in the motor and headed for Glen Coe.
When we arrived and [...]
Posted on May 24th, 2009 by PTC*
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“What the hell is that?”
I got that a lot from walkers on the West Highland Way heading North as I headed South from Kingshouse to Victoria Bridge. Some folk just looked at me and others were very interested and we stopped an talked about it. Most folk liked the idea of not having a pack on, [...]
Posted on May 23rd, 2009 by PTC*
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Regular listeners will know that I have a soft spot for the Real Food Cafe in Tyndrum. It’s been a haven, a saviour and a joy many times over.
When we were in today, Sarah (below) and the staff were in full flight getting the new extension ready for its opening tonight. It has leather couches, nice new [...]
Posted on May 22nd, 2009 by PTC*
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When I started having to swap numbers with folk from outdoor places instead of just engineering ones I got some cards made up at Moo so I wasn’t having to constantly apologise and lie about having “run out”.
It was dead easy, it’s all done through your Flickr photies, it only takes a few minutes to do the text [...]
Posted on May 20th, 2009 by PTC*
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I’m actually going to list (and weigh!) the kit I take for the next trip, prompted entirely by Martin’s organisational skills as seen here.
It’s a good idea to get more organised on occasion, I recently forgot my spork and gave myself some aluminium origami so I could eat my dinner, and I have in the recent past slept [...]
Posted on May 20th, 2009 by PTC*
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I’m going back to er, Glen Affric. The route in there that I was supposed to be writing up for the next (or is it the one after?) issue of Trail got replaced by something else I’ve done. It turns out that taking lots of photies and having a HiFi memory is an arse saver. The route that went in is [...]
Posted on May 18th, 2009 by PTC*
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