The first thing we saw when we arrived at KORS was the big orange tent above, it was raining but the folks from Vango/F10 were safe enough inside and that was our first vist of the day. Modelling and photies duties were split between the two of us through the day. It’s gloves off, F10 [...]
Posted on September 14th, 2011 by PTC*
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I’ve just been advertised at, the iPad2 will apparently complete my life and preserve my family in a golden halo for all eternity. No it won’t and now I want to punch Apple in the face. I was in my folks attic earlier tonight rummaging for stuff to amuse Holly and found some annuals from [...]
Posted on September 13th, 2011 by PTC*
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ROKS, the Reliable Outdoor Kit Show, is a new outdoor trade show which ran last month at the same time as KORS (write-up this week). There were a lot of familiar names there and it made a good contrast to KORS. Next year the plan is to run the two shows with even more integration which [...]
Posted on September 11th, 2011 by PTC*
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The rain was battering off the window when I shuffled into the living room this morning, one slipper on, one slipper annoyingly with its heel still folded flat under my own. In some ways I was relieved, the watercolour sky and soft yellow moon of just after midnight would have been glorious from 3000ft, but would I have been [...]
Posted on September 11th, 2011 by PTC*
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William Shatner (if you don’t know who he is don’t let the door hit you on the ass on the way out) is releasing an album of rock/metal songs called Seeking Major Tom (or it could be Searching for Major Tom, depending on where you read about it, but Amazon are going with Seeking for [...]
Posted on September 10th, 2011 by PTC*
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Spring/Summer clothing collections are often an excercise in gap-filling until winter comes back, but Haglöfs have got some kit coming up next year that definitely caught my eye. Okay the purple Hebbe Beanie above has been canned, didn’t really fit in the summer range… but we’ll be seeing it again this winter. Below though is the Actives Merino [...]
Posted on September 8th, 2011 by PTC*
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The painting of the Trossachs in the post below brought to mind another couple of classics. Above is an imaginitve study of the summit of Ben Lomond by John Knox from 1834. The shapes of the summit ridge are recognisable if a little exaggerated, the views beyond are a mix of fiction, reference to hastily [...]
Posted on September 7th, 2011 by PTC*
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That shot above taken just after 8am on Monday at Loch Lubnaig should be what come to mind when you think of a national park lochside, but as we know there’s a lot more going on both on the shores and on paper. Here’s some links to BBC news pieces: Loch Lomond National Park’s Difficult [...]
Posted on September 7th, 2011 by PTC*
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The Loch Lomond camping ban has been in place for a few months now and there are plans brewing at The Park HQ. I’ll speak more about it later tomorrow, but the news will be broken tomorrow morning on BBC Radio Scotland’s Good Morning Scotland around 0830, I’ll be doing an interview regarding the proposals. After my [...]
Posted on September 4th, 2011 by PTC*
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Pink, yellow and orange, a trio of pure joy. Scottish sweeties rock. Ha. King’s of Wishaw were founded back in 1829 and were famous in these parts and beyond for all sorts of boiled sweets and Pan Drops, but for the connoisseur of a certain age, Oddfellows are the classic sweetie. They’re crunchy but soften to a [...]
Posted on September 4th, 2011 by PTC*
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I was dead tired last night and the third Bourne film was on, Supremacy is it? I was getting all involved (for the umpteeth time) with the stuff around Waterloo station but had one metaphirical foot under the duvet. “Just tape it on +1″ said Joycee, so I pressed the button on my Virgin box [...]
Posted on September 4th, 2011 by PTC*
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I’ve been clock watching for the past week or so, that and chewing on the right hand side of my mouth, and carefully at that. But an hour in the reclining chair with two people in my mouth yesterday and the tooth now has a very different demeanor. The temporary fix of a week ago [...]
Posted on September 3rd, 2011 by PTC*
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