We’d already set the tone with the song, so what the hell, go for the Sabbath font as well. It’s called Before You Go, it’s me and Craig again, Craig on the drums and me on all the other stuff. The other stuff which doesn’t include sythesisers, it’s all guitars, thanks to Electro Harmonix and [...]
Posted on May 31st, 2011 by PTC*
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Still at home, still on the couch. This is shite. But I’m having proper food, talking to people etc, well done me (read that last bit in a really sarcastic Scottish voice). Now onto Weir’s Way DVD box set #2, so today I was following the River Tay from Ben Lui’s coire through some very familiar [...]
Posted on May 30th, 2011 by PTC*
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Tuesday I felt a bit wabbit, on Wednesday I was mispronouncing words at lunch and by that evening I was oot. There’s a bug going around apparently and I got bugged. My future self will remember some of the details no doubt and my present self doesn’t want to think about it right now other [...]
Posted on May 27th, 2011 by PTC*
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Holly was doing a little dance in the porch this morning. obviously pleased about something on her way to nursery. As she skipped down the stairs she started singing at the top of her voice… “Ah ah Aaaahhhhh Aaaaahhhhhhhh! Ah ah Aaaahhhhh Aaaaahhhhhhhh! We come from the land of the ice and snow, hmmm hmm [...]
Posted on May 25th, 2011 by PTC*
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I’ve had these on test the past few months, something that’s long overdue from Haglöfs, new for this coming winter Actives Merino Baselayers. Tech stuff is limited I’m afraid, I’ve got no paperwork on these yet, so I just had to wear them and see what they were like. What they’re like is typical Haglöfs, slim [...]
Posted on May 24th, 2011 by PTC*
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That shot above was taken on a frozen afternoon last winter. The shot below was taken today from the same spot. Thank Jimmy summer’s here. I lived on a boat in the harbour at one time and the storms that swept up the Clyde were always an experience. When the wind picked up today and [...]
Posted on May 23rd, 2011 by PTC*
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We were talking today about this and that over lunch in the canteen of a deserted factory and Kevin Costner’s Waterworld movie came up, a much maligned film which it turned out we all had a soft spot for. The star of the movie was the huge supertanker set, which was a mock up of the [...]
Posted on May 22nd, 2011 by PTC*
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It must have been 25 years ago or more when I saw the BC Rich Stealth in the instrument pages at the back of Sounds (a long-dead newspaper-format weekly music mag, brilliant in its heyday). It was pure metal, the odd shaped Gibsons I love, the V and Explorer are still a bit old-man guitar, but [...]
Posted on May 22nd, 2011 by PTC*
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On test for the past few months have been two pairs of Experia socks from Thorlo. The pair above (of course I had the camera on last night’s trail run) are the Experia Crew. These have been a regular sight on the washing line, I’ve had them in bike shoes, mids, trail shoes and my [...]
Posted on May 20th, 2011 by PTC*
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My running has been a very start/stop affair these past few years. In fact in the last year or more it hasn’t even been on the radar. But I was asked in an offer I couldn’t refuse way to do a wee local race, so I’ve been on the bike a bit just to let [...]
Posted on May 19th, 2011 by PTC*
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Funny how such a recognisable icon of the mountains is a bit of a 1960′s shopping centre dropped on top of it. However, I have in my hand a piece of paper, it is a plan of sorts and it says to me which trig points will be featured on these pages in the coming months. First [...]
Posted on May 19th, 2011 by PTC*
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Soft furnishings, haberdashery? Or is bed stuff linen, I see a lot of bath towels in linen cupboards? Whatever, it’s all a bit dull, and “I like the purple one” isn’t helpful apparently, so I turned my attention to the more interesting designs of duvet cover. The cardboard box look made me smile as it’s [...]
Posted on May 18th, 2011 by PTC*
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Light My Fire are a familiar name now, we see their sporks everywhere, but the name does suggest they do something else. Indeed their homepage says “We sell fire”, which I like as sounds like an 80′s metal album, and I’ve used one of their firesteels for years which been faultless. The brand has a new UK distributor this year [...]
Posted on May 15th, 2011 by PTC*
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