It’s been an odd week. I woke up the start of it after an hours sleep in a shite hotel 400 miles from home, but it did get better. I changed the company colours from brown canvas Snickers work pants and black t shirts to black Snickers work pants and whatever t shirt was clean and [...]
Posted on September 30th, 2011 by PTC*
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Four years old. I should probably think about blog stats at a time like this, so let’s see. Four years and I’m still doing this and haven’t got bored, that’s a statistic that is something of a control question in the survey of my life. I’m a faddy bastard, I like lots of stuff to the [...]
Posted on September 29th, 2011 by PTC*
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Drive drive drive drive, not sleep not sleep not sleep not sleep, gear gear gear gear, drive drive drive drive, sleep, work etc It was a good trip, roads were okay, hotel was tireder than I was after spending a night in it and OTS was good, partly for the gear and partly for the [...]
Posted on September 28th, 2011 by PTC*
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To help me recover from the canine trauma I’m away to finger gear at OTS at the awfy far away Stoneleigh Park. My mission is mainly as a judge for the 2011 Novel Awards, where there’s some neat stuff up for the win, but I’ll manage a proper look around in between as well. There’s some [...]
Posted on September 25th, 2011 by PTC*
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I love that view of The Cobbler, it’s just a hint of what it really looks like, but it goes straight from the road to the South Peak in one breathless ascent and I just had to pull over and take a shot. All very nice, very normal and I was in no hurry. But, [...]
Posted on September 25th, 2011 by PTC*
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Jimmy, who is my dad if it’s not obvious, is leading a huge flotilla of boats eastwards on the Forth and Clyde Canal right now. He ‘s sailing the Wee Spark, the replica Clyde Puffer he built in the workshop, and as ever it’s attracting all the attention. STV have him hamming it up for the [...]
Posted on September 24th, 2011 by PTC*
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I had the strangest of days. And, as soon as Photobucket gets it’s thumb out of its arse and fixes its poxy website there will be a selection of hairy chins on these crinkled pages.
Posted on September 22nd, 2011 by PTC*
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Went to see Gary Numan last night. I’ve seen him uncountable times over the years and he’s rarely anything but excellent, but the lack of any real new material for a few years and the careless renditions of some of the older material in recent shows had Craig and I a wee bit apprehensive as we watched [...]
Posted on September 21st, 2011 by PTC*
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We came back from the Glen Coe gift shop with a bag of books which makes a nice change from tablet and nougat and my two are magic, full of old photies of two of my favourite places. The mountains are only half the story, the roads that take us there and the communities that thrive [...]
Posted on September 19th, 2011 by PTC*
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We were up very early this morning and a wander to the fridge revealed what could be best described as a very three dimensional sky. Trees, an old railway embankment and then the Kilpatrick Hills block the sunrise all year round, but every now and then something glamorous squeezes through the gap Nice. Right, trousers…
Posted on September 19th, 2011 by PTC*
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Part of the motivation for working daft hours yesterday was to get the whole day off today. The telly was some cartoons or other, the sounds were those of tattie scones in a pan, the views across the river to the hills were those of a perfect day for a galavant. Quick, let’s get ready. [...]
Posted on September 18th, 2011 by PTC*
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Long time since I’ve done a 12 hour shift on a Saturday. But it was a quick day, cuppas were few and activity was constant leaving me now tired but surprisingly content. As much as I piss and moan about not getting to the hills right now, I love what I do and in these [...]
Posted on September 17th, 2011 by PTC*
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Once upon a time there lived a beautful princess in a far away kingdom. The King and Queen ruled wisely, the people were happy and content and the princess played in the garden and the forest without a care in the world, her name was Crustarella. One morning, just like every morning Crustarella was anxious [...]
Posted on September 16th, 2011 by PTC*
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