The weather is unrelentingly grim but I don’t care as I’m all about indoors right now. Spent all day recording in Red Eye Studios in Clydebank with Craig and his drumsticks, we spent some of yesterday in there too rehearsing which was pointless as it turns out as I improvised every bloody thing when the tape was rolling [...]
Posted on December 28th, 2011 by PTC*
Filed under: Items Various | 2 Comments »
Joycee made a sculpture (for she is an artist) for my birthday, 43 on the 23rd, nothing worth announcing at the time. It’s not quite finished apparently but I love it just the same, it’s me and Holly on an adventure. Now it’s Christmas and it’s something of a relief; family, food, Holly’s craziness and [...]
Posted on December 25th, 2011 by PTC*
Filed under: Items Various | 3 Comments »
In amongst all the press releases and bumff and hard-sell there’s very little room for humour or levity, but here’s Alpkit to save the day. Again. The rock says Alpkit all the way through, Holly’s checked it out, the tax disc is doing it’s job nicely, our fridge now says some bizarre things in red and white [...]
Posted on December 24th, 2011 by PTC*
Filed under: Items Various, Kit Reviews | 1 Comment »
All I could see today were snowy slopes under blue skies and sunshine. Ben Lomond really did live up to its name, a bright beacon of white inaccessibility. Still, the day had work progress of note and I did grab the camera when I got home and headed down to the old Scotts of Bowling shipyard. [...]
Posted on December 16th, 2011 by PTC*
Filed under: Items Various | 4 Comments »
It was a beautiful morning, ribbons of cloud floated low on the hills and the river as a golden sun rose slowly and chased them all away into nothingness. I kinda missed it, by the time I got to the beach the morning was straightening itself up, but it was still poetry in technicolour. Especially with [...]
Posted on December 15th, 2011 by PTC*
Filed under: Items Various | 2 Comments »
I was gazing out of the window as a low sheet of cloud slithered slowly off of the low slopes of Muirshiel leaving a white Hill of Stake stark against the grey all around it. I was lying to myself by saying it was a mini inversion when a flash of colour caught my eye [...]
Posted on December 10th, 2011 by PTC*
Filed under: Items Various | 2 Comments »
Posted on December 9th, 2011 by PTC*
Filed under: Items Various | No Comments »
The week started well, very well, I had every day, and evening, tagged for activity and was overjoyed to be on a schedule that would launch me through the backlog of horror and into the world of completed and invoiced work. That was until it all went wrong after the studio on Tuesday night. Well, it’s [...]
Posted on December 9th, 2011 by PTC*
Filed under: Music | 2 Comments »
I knew I was going to make some sort of attempt, I’d even left some kit out in case I came back for a quick smash and grab, but I had real stuff to do and I did it first. Then, I scooted home, filled a water bottle and a flask, donned my gay apparel [...]
Posted on December 5th, 2011 by PTC*
Filed under: Adventures | 6 Comments »
I’ve spent more than 25 years working in factories, warehouses, workshops and the like fixing their broken stuff or installing new gear and it’s given me a brilliant insight into areas of life that we don’t always get to see, the ones behind doors marked Authorised Personnel Only. Testing outdoor kit is fine, but more interesting is [...]
Posted on December 4th, 2011 by PTC*
Filed under: Items Various, Kit Reviews | 13 Comments »
Running to try and keep up, there’s bound to be slips and trips, maybe even casualties. I’m concentrating awfy hard though, even with the distraction of a snow capped peak right outside my living room windae. I’ve neglected this place which is daft, it means when I look back in years to come I’ll have no [...]
Posted on December 4th, 2011 by PTC*
Filed under: Items Various | No Comments »
There’s no point in fannying around here and waiting for the conclusion, the bottom line is that the Montane Fury is micro fleece done right. I got this in for test last winter and it’s first task was walking from Rannoch Station to Spean Bridge in almost constant rain, so it spend it’s time layered [...]
Posted on December 4th, 2011 by PTC*
Filed under: Kit Reviews | 24 Comments »
