Is that the time? Just away to see Rush at the SECC. They’re on their Time Machine Tour which is a greatest hits tour of sorts, but better still they’re playing the whole of their Moving Pictures album from ’81. It’s probably my favourite Rush album, not a duff track on it and I am [...]
Posted on May 14th, 2011 by PTC*
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There was a tentative evening ride on the cards, but a plague of bats* put paid to that. So as it was too late in the afternoon to pick up the keys to get into a site to look at pipes I slung a leg over the bike instead. Ascent, sweat, grimace, all the usual [...]
Posted on May 13th, 2011 by PTC*
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That’s a lie, you had to buy a Daily Record or Sunday Mail, but the mighty prize among the less interesting Lego (yeah I’m saying the brand name, they can call it Character Building all they want, but we know it’s Lego, it fits onto real Lego: it’s Lego) and other Doctor Who items free [...]
Posted on May 12th, 2011 by PTC*
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An invisible friend over the past few months has been Chocolate Fish’s TeMata 260 Merino Crew. I’d always avoided heavier weight merino as a base layer, but “Test it, you’ll see” sounded like a challenge, so I gave it a go. The fabric is a little different to the merino I’m so well used to [...]
Posted on May 12th, 2011 by PTC*
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Terra Nova upped the ante again, The World’s Lightest Tent record went from one of their tents to another. Using new fabrics, an evolution of their successful Laser design and big slice of bravado, it’s the Laser Ultra 1. A few basics first. The dimensions are the same as the Laser Photon 1, a tent [...]
Posted on May 9th, 2011 by PTC*
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We’ve had a couple of pairs of new models of boots from Brasher boots on test for the past few months, I’ve had the mens Kiso GTX (down below in blue and grey) and Joycee has had the womans Kenai GTX (above in dark grey). The two models are a matching pair in general design. The low-cut/ mid- [...]
Posted on May 8th, 2011 by PTC*
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The girls thought I was working this weekend and had booked a day oot with Holly’s wee pal and her maw. After they left I sat on the couch and thought about editing up some long overdue gear reviews, but the weather through the window hadn’t totally crapped out yet so I stood straight back [...]
Posted on May 7th, 2011 by PTC*
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Me and Holly were having one of our occasional midweek galavants and ended up in the Braehead shopping monster as a midpoint to meet Joycee. We ended up in Marks, where I did not look at the mens clothes, and the wee yin made a beeline for the dressing up corner where there was the [...]
Posted on May 7th, 2011 by PTC*
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Claude Choules died yesterday aged 110, he was the last surviving combatant of the First World War. WW1 is something that has always had a resonance for me, as a youngster hearing stories from already very old men who were there, some bearing the scars, several eyepatches and odd shaped ears come to mind as well [...]
Posted on May 6th, 2011 by PTC*
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If we win, well then we’ll have what none of us has ever had before: a country of our own. I think it says something about modern life that the best quote that a Scotsman can find to fit the moment when Scotland got the balls to take a step closer to leaving foreign rule [...]
Posted on May 6th, 2011 by PTC*
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Ready to rock when you are. That was the text from Phil, but as O2 weren’t keen on supplying me with a signal to reply properly, the time of my arrival in Killin would remain a mystery. Given the bank holiday roads I wouldn’t want to guess at it anyway. A day later my attempted text [...]
Posted on May 5th, 2011 by PTC*
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It’s the price you pay for having white fillings, they will fail at some point. I had two old ones go a couple of months back, a molar on either side, and after after a surprisingly long wait for an appointment (is having dental work becoming more popular, I didn’t figure on it becoming this [...]
Posted on May 3rd, 2011 by PTC*
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Posted on May 2nd, 2011 by PTC*
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