These past few years I’ve often wondered about the effect a camera has on my time outdoors. I love looking at my photies when I come home, and I’ll treasure them for the rest of my life, but does the time and effort involved detract from the experience of actually being there?
At the Gary Numan gig [...]
Posted on November 29th, 2009 by PTC*
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Buff burst through the door just a wee while back, and as a dog-less individual I enlisted some assistance in testing the Dog Buff in the shape of Toastie and owner Rachel Shipley.
Rachel is the Access Officer for Inverclyde Council, and is out there with Toastie making and keeping paths open and tackling ne’erdowell landowners who would have as all [...]
Posted on November 28th, 2009 by PTC*
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Aye, this week is like an episode of Quantum Leap. Or maybe Stargate Universe, but nobody’s watching that as it sends you into a coma, so that’s a rubbish reference point.
Some rather wacky test kit is appearing, Minim Down Pants and Boots from PHD and Trango boots from LaSportiva. Help ma Boab.
Went to see Gary [...]
Posted on November 28th, 2009 by PTC*
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It’s like being on holiday this week, apart from all the work.
On Tuesday Holly and I hung out all day, I took her into see the folks at an engineers merchants that Jimmy and I have known forever and there was much fussing from the girls in the office. Then there was lunch at Tiso [...]
Posted on November 26th, 2009 by PTC*
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After I’d finished scalding my fingers repairing a swing-check valve that I couldn’t completely isolate from the hot supply I decided to nip into the nearby Silverburn shopping centre to sooth my nerves by looking at amusing fashion and desperate shoppers. On the agenda was the Cotswold store, which is quite a nice one as these things go. [...]
Posted on November 25th, 2009 by PTC*
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I haven’t been out the door this weekend. The world outside looked like a helluva place to be altogether, so I sat inside with my cough and tried to exorcise it with snacking and telly.
Interestingly this seems to have had some effect. I shall therefore increase my snacking and telly intake as it obviously has [...]
Posted on November 22nd, 2009 by PTC*
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It was a good chance to take some new test kit out as I wasn’t going too high or far, but luckily the weather turned into a proper test anyway.
Below you’ll see the Inov-8 Race Pro 30, it came in with a bunch of Inov-8 kit that I’ll be using. I took my cooking kit, warm jacket [...]
Posted on November 20th, 2009 by PTC*
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Pale blues skies were above me all the way. The snow line seemed to start around 600m, clouds hid on the north sides of the ridges and summits, keeping out of the low sunlight. The A82 wasn’t the enemy today, it was a sparsely attended passage through a wonderland, and I grinned my way north.
I [...]
Posted on November 19th, 2009 by PTC*
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I was nervous. I thought I’d wake up, peer out of the curtains and there would be three feet of snow and clear blue skies. But no, bogging pishy horror lay outside, now that’s a Monday.
This continued as the boilers I went to service lay inside an unexpectedly locked and empty building. My view of this [...]
Posted on November 17th, 2009 by PTC*
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I just knew the week was cooked on Monday when I went up the hills. I’ve spend every night since on the couch, wrapped in thedog blanket (that’s what I call the “guest duvet”, is that wrong?) coughing unabated along to garbage telly until 0400 where I pass out for a couple of blissful hours and gradually [...]
Posted on November 15th, 2009 by PTC*
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A few years back I was posting photies on the old Trail website and one of the comments was “That’s a nice headscarf”. It was of course a Buff, one of my many.
I remember when they first came out, there were cries of both “A tenner for patterened tubigrip!” and “Genius!”. The tubular style design [...]
Posted on November 13th, 2009 by PTC*
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Celtic Frost lyrics as a post title, I’ve waited two years to get some of that stuff in.
The computer is dead. Completely dead, as pronounced by computer doctors in the computer hospital.
I have most stuff backed up on the wee ootside box, so all I’m missing are some annoying inconveniences, some work stuff an’ that. All the [...]
Posted on November 11th, 2009 by PTC*
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