Nathan have new distribution in the UK so hopefully we’ll get to see more of their kit in the shops beside the joggers niknaks we’re used to. I’ve got a pair of sports bottles in for test. The hoohah about BPA in plastic bottles has had a nice effect, it’s meant a lot of new [...]
Posted on October 18th, 2011 by PTC*
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A bit unseasonal perhaps, but now is when these things are in the sales, so it’s a good time for a review. On test all summer were a cracking pair or oranges from Haglöfs, the Zando and the Mondo. The Zando is the checked shirt and although both shirts are cut from Climatic fabric with [...]
Posted on October 18th, 2011 by PTC*
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I’m going to catch up with some gear stuff. I decided to stop doing first-looks ages back as a later review was just the same words but different photies, but that’s meant that I have no idea where I am now. So there’ll be a mixed bag of recent and ancient over the next week [...]
Posted on October 18th, 2011 by PTC*
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Look! It’s the scarecrow and he throws his head at the people! Holly spied a Worzel Gummidge DVD in the bargain bin, I’ve no idea where she’d seen it to recognise it but she knew it right enough and would not be parted from it. Joycee, not me, bought it. It’s been on now and [...]
Posted on October 15th, 2011 by PTC*
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Above we have my new Panasonic Lumix LX5 as seen by my old LX3, and below the roles are reversed. Both shots were taken within 30 seconds at the same positions on the IA setting and are downsized but unedited. Interestingly different aren’t they, but neither got the fleece blanket colour anywhere near right. Setting [...]
Posted on October 14th, 2011 by PTC*
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For the last few years there has been a constant, something that became a part of my everyday life and that I came to enjoy and that I came to rely on. It changed my life, and that’s definitely something I never expected. The times we shared will live with me, the near misses, the occasional [...]
Posted on October 13th, 2011 by PTC*
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This is a wee collection of test kit that’s been around since spring this year or last month in the case of the Buff and last week’s bike ride was good update for my thoughts on it all. I say multisport, although the shirt is bike specific you can happily run in it, and there’s news [...]
Posted on October 11th, 2011 by PTC*
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It was still early enough when I got home and the rain had eased leaving just the wind, so I got my bike gear together and headed out with the intention of taking some long overdue gear photies. The one above shows me realising I’m being eyed suspiciously by a trail runner after which I [...]
Posted on October 9th, 2011 by PTC*
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A lot to do this week and shite weather to be doing it in. It’s cold, I actually wore something other than a t-shirt yesterday, breaking a 7 month bare arm winning streak. The evenings are busier than normal too, and due to this it’s probably all over for me, no more outdoors, no more kit [...]
Posted on October 5th, 2011 by PTC*
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As is pretty obvious, music is one of the thickest threads that runs through the weave of the picnic blanket of my life. Somewhere near the frayed edge, 1983 hangs in my memory as a very special time, a year of teenage discovery with monthly visits to the Glasgow Apollo and days of High School where drawing [...]
Posted on October 2nd, 2011 by PTC*
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