Nine pitched forward onto the floor. When he ground to a halt his face burned from the impact and his vision was blurred as he looked sideways across the floorboards breathing in dust and panting out spit as his lungs heaved.
He heard footsteps quicken behind him and stop. Was it a second, a minute? When the [...]
Posted on December 31st, 2009 by PTC*
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Christmas is the end of the year for me. It’s the bullet hitting the target, the week that follows is just the old year falling to the ground. I get my thoughtful moments and reflection out of the way, and by the time Hogmanay is here I’m thinking “new and next”.
But, I was just flicking through my [...]
Posted on December 30th, 2009 by PTC*
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Where does a 40 plus year old bloke shop for clothes? I’m nowhere near ready to abandon the clothes I like and move into M&S or outdoor gear full-time. My recent experience of trying to wedge my shoulders in to a size large shirt which I’m sure would only have fitted a 23 year old Brian [...]
Posted on December 29th, 2009 by PTC*
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“Tiso rubbish. Transport Museum, Edie McCredie’s bus, okay thanks you”. Holly said it, not me. Not even the waterfall in the Tiso GOE held her interest today.
We slipped and slid our way back to the motor and headed to Glasgow’s rapidly emptying Transport Museum. There’s a new one being built by the Clyde and a lot of exhibits [...]
Posted on December 28th, 2009 by PTC*
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Three equally wonderful things have I before me.
The 1 litre Sigg bottle with the nice textured masonry paint from Holly brings me much joy. The standard (or is that “classic” in today’s world?) Sigg narrow-necked bottles are so impractical when you’ve used wide-mouth types, but they are somehow reassuring, dependable and any shortcomings are forgiven [...]
Posted on December 27th, 2009 by PTC*
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By the time I had switched on the camera Holly had started eating her snowman’s nose.
Good girl, that’s the stuff that’ll keep your old dad on his toes.
Posted on December 26th, 2009 by PTC*
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The girls were unpacking from their trip up north, I was up to my knees in bags, clothes and Christmas parcels. I was also in the way.
I peered out through the fog at the frozen village. I packed a few bits and pieces, dressed for the weather and headed off to look for some sunshine.
It wasn’t far [...]
Posted on December 25th, 2009 by PTC*
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Test kit gets a good bit of rotation, I take something different on every trip so I can get used to stuff and hopefully spot the quirks or advantages of different designs. But there’s one thing that’s seen more use that any other bit of kit, constant use in fact as it’s been with me [...]
Posted on December 24th, 2009 by PTC*
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The streets were deserted and silent. From struggling through nose to tail traffic in heavy snow at 20mph on the way home, to cIear skies and the village all to myself on the way home from a visit to my folks house for dinner.
Winter walks at night in the snow are pure magic. The snow takes the light [...]
Posted on December 23rd, 2009 by PTC*
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The weather fitted his mood. It was one thing that was beyond him, it was its own master and played its own game by its own rules. He had often felt that it was laughing at him as it wrecked his plans and took none of the blame, but then took all the glory when [...]
Posted on December 22nd, 2009 by PTC*
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It’s mayhem, it’s panic, it’s armageddon. It’s Christmas.
I dropped into the city centre in between despairing customers for a quick cuppa with a pal and the masses were in free flight, madness in their eyes, crashing from shop to shop, queuing at the cash machines while fidgeting and shuffling nervously. It’s like the population of [...]
Posted on December 21st, 2009 by PTC*
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Gus was dismayed, the first thing i did was take and orange top off the rack and try it on.
What we’ve got here is the wonders of the shed once again, it’s my personal highlights from the Haglöfs winter 2010/2011 collection.
Haglöfs are moving forward with sustainable production, and the kit we see below has some big [...]
Posted on December 20th, 2009 by PTC*
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