It’s February in about ten minutes. I know the news is banging on about winter returning this week, but how ever harsh it may be, it won’t last. I just hope there’s enough snow dumped up high to be able to use for the stove up to at least easter. Ah spring summits, the chill air [...]
Posted on January 30th, 2012 by PTC*
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You know what, I’ve had it with techno headwear. Skipped, featured, flapped, drawcorded, shelled, whatevered, I don’t need it and I don’t uses it. What I like is simple, I like a regular Buff, sometimes a baseball cap, sometimes a brimmed hat and always a beanie. There’s no situation you can’t cope with packing these [...]
Posted on January 29th, 2012 by PTC*
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I said to Holly that the next time I was heading down to the beach to catch the sunset she could come along, so when it was looking like it might be nice about 4 today on went her boots and furry hat as we rushed down to the icy harbour. It was nice, the sun [...]
Posted on January 28th, 2012 by PTC*
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It was 8am when the alarm went off and I really wasn’t ready for it. I’d had the best two hours sleep of the whole night leading up to that point and I was reluctant to let it go. But it was bright outside, and there was no hiding from it, Ford don’t fit their [...]
Posted on January 26th, 2012 by PTC*
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O wad some Pow’r the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! It wad frae mony a blunder free us, An’ foolish notion: What airs in dress an’ gait wad lea’e us, An’ ev’n devotion!
Posted on January 25th, 2012 by PTC*
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Totally forgot about this. I did some filming for BBC Learning last year about the Loch Lomond camping stuff and it was on the telly on Monday. Missed it, haven’t seen it, don’t know what it’s like. If it comes up on iPlayer I’ll post a link , or I might set the video for 0500 [...]
Posted on January 25th, 2012 by PTC*
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Just caught the end of the news. Deficit, growth, recession, depression, debt. It will never be sorted, the debt will never be repaid, ever. To make a real profit, of national not personal scale, you have to exploit someone for raw materials and labour and then sell the proceeds at home and abroad. Success means someone has to [...]
Posted on January 24th, 2012 by PTC*
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It was still quite pleased with myself when I saw the next snow clouds rumbling in. A cuppa makes it all better.
Posted on January 24th, 2012 by PTC*
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If you’re reading this, then I am gone. Don’t be sad, I didn’t suffer. I got one of those plug-in FM transmitters so I can hear my iPod in the motor again. And, I’m in a better place. Somewhere between Kintail and Knoydart. The inscription reads… “Here he lies, not camping but sleeping in the [...]
Posted on January 21st, 2012 by PTC*
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The colour is right, the place was right, I wonder if the time is right?
Posted on January 20th, 2012 by PTC*
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Jeez, it’s been a while since I did one of these posts. Been a lot of gear getting used one way or an other and the Tarmachan mini trip is the start of me writing about it all again. So much to catch up on. There was a lot of regular or familiar kit on the [...]
Posted on January 19th, 2012 by PTC*
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Got the new motor. New to me that is, it’s been in this world a good wee while on it’s own already. It’s another Mondeo estate, and its black. Black. I’m fine with black, I was more worried by the private reggie number that it came with and how quickly I could get a regular [...]
Posted on January 19th, 2012 by PTC*
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I did drag my feet a bit, Sunday morning was good, me, the girls, cuppas, laughter and fannying about. But I got all dressed up and Holly’s comment that “Dad, you look like a mountain superhero” which I immediately tweeted kinda got me moving. Bobinson’s reply of “I’ll meet you there” galvanised me and I was [...]
Posted on January 18th, 2012 by PTC*
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