Not often I post stuff like this, but as I wandered the dismal corridors of the internet: a shopping centre with a huge advice bureau where all the advice is based on opinion rather than fact, I found a version of the Battles My Machines video I could borrow for on here. The song (along [...]
Posted on November 27th, 2011 by PTC*
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I wish I had electric hands. Mind you, the cyberman are looking properly rough these days, if that’s the trade off for having electric hands. I’ll just keep the ones I’ve got, scarred and hacked as they are. But, do Character Options really expect us to buy another cyberman just because it comes with electric [...]
Posted on November 23rd, 2011 by PTC*
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I was standing by the window talking on the phone and I could see the way it was going with the clear blue sky and sinking sun. No way I was getting to a hill before it was dark and I was in the studio at 6, but the harbour is just over the road [...]
Posted on November 22nd, 2011 by PTC*
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Met Bobinson for lunch, not been enough of that stuff of late. We’ve put a big cross on December for doing stuff, here’s hoping. The Tiso cafe hasn’t changed which is nice and the racks and shelves are full of every shade of grey and black you could think of. Well done. When I got [...]
Posted on November 21st, 2011 by PTC*
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It’s been a week since my last confession. Blogging: An admission of guilt with photies as evidence? No guilt attached to those cakes though. Had a lie-in on Sunday, fighting with pipes all day the day before and trying unsuccessfully to load Tracklogs onto the new laptop (Now called Son of Bontempi) the night before [...]
Posted on November 21st, 2011 by PTC*
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Sitting waiting for the moon. Not the most stressful way to spend a Saturday evening. Pitlochry was the first stop on the way. It’s the best way to get to Braemar, the road over the hills to Glen Shee is a joy compared to the dull lands north of Perth. It’s also where Escape [...]
Posted on November 15th, 2011 by PTC*
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While I was being dive-bombed by grouse, stared at by horses, running around in the moonlight with my camera, feeding hordes of ducks and enjoying my new hat in the hills around Braemar a cheque fell on the doormat on Saturday morning. I invoiced this customer in August, I am speechless. Like my old man [...]
Posted on November 13th, 2011 by PTC*
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It’s something of a relief to be writing this, and I’m not talking about the fact that Black Sabbath have reformed, are touring and recording an album with producer Rick Rubin. No, I’m typing this on a new laptop. For a long time the old Bontempi laptop’s screen has been dead, shine a headtorch on [...]
Posted on November 11th, 2011 by PTC*
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I’ve had it too easy these past few years with all these one person tents that fit in you pocket, what I needed was a man’s tent, a big tent, a proper tent, a tent that I could stand up in and that the girls could fit in as well without us sitting cheek to cheek [...]
Posted on November 10th, 2011 by PTC*
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It wasn’t meant to be winter when Holly went camping for the first time, but it’s been that sort of a year. So, what the hell, a family sized tent arrived, all three of us were shrugging off the lurgy, the forecast was looking good so we packed and got the hell out of Dodge. It [...]
Posted on November 9th, 2011 by PTC*
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As I was brushing my teeth in the toilet block at the Invercoe camp site I couldn’t help but be impressed by the signs above each sink. Most signs are all about what to do, or more usually what not to do, but here they accept our human failings and just want to make sure [...]
Posted on November 8th, 2011 by PTC*
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I couldn’t resist it, the past few months I’ve abstained, too busy, too stressed, too responsible, too damned old? Not on this Monday morning. I switched off my phone, threw some bits and pieces in a pack and hit the road. A greasy road at that with several grin inducing slides at familiar corners which [...]
Posted on November 8th, 2011 by PTC*
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Hopefully YouTube will update that file name thing at some point. Coe Birthday Conic 019 as it’s currently called (should be While You Were Sleeping soon enough) is because the photie folder it’s from is the Glen Coe camping from last weekend, Holly’s birthday today and me abandoning everything and sitting on top of Conic Hill for [...]
Posted on November 7th, 2011 by PTC*
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