I have, and it’s about bloody time too.
Posted on January 16th, 2012 by PTC*
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I was always a gaiter wearer but in recent years I’ve been in softshell pants more often that not where internal gaiters were keeping out the crap or in trainers where gaiters were kinda superfluous. But manky legs are rubbish in a tent, and it’s manky out there just now, wet and muddy instead of [...]
Posted on January 14th, 2012 by PTC*
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Went to the Snowbaw outdoor trade show in Edinburgh during the week. It was a strange one, it’s almost a secret show as there’s no website for it, no registration, no advertising and as it turns out very few store buyers or media folk coming through the door. So, by the time Bobinson and I [...]
Posted on January 13th, 2012 by PTC*
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Spent the day in Edinburgh at the Snowbaws outdoor show looking at some new kit, some new brands too which was nice. I’ll do a write-up over the next couple of days and I’ll be announcing a “thing” too, I’ve got a few of the distributors working with me to put together a show-and-tell weekend [...]
Posted on January 12th, 2012 by PTC*
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I was in a shop before Christmas, a big shop, it was in Braehead, Primark maybe? Anyway, they had what I thought were dressing up outfits for adults, cartoon characters, superheroes and the like and on the whole they seemed a little sinister and somewhat overly plush. Turns out it was pyjamas, all-in-one pyjamas, or onesies. I [...]
Posted on January 12th, 2012 by PTC*
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I’ve had Horatio McCulloch and his wonderful works on here before, but I just came across this page on the BBC site which has a bunch of his paintings, all familiar Highland stuff or scenes local to me like the view below which is also in Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Museum (I can see my living room window just at the turn of [...]
Posted on January 12th, 2012 by PTC*
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Glasgow is great for museums on a wet holiday fortnight, well, until the current bunch of curators who have no understanding of or empathy for the city or it’s history finally ruin every single one of them anyway. How dumbing down museums to the level of the instruction pamphlet that accompanies the toy in a McDonalds Happy Meal helps [...]
Posted on January 10th, 2012 by PTC*
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There was no reason other than I wanted to go. That’s the best reason. The first steps are the hardest, starting with the one that hits the floor beside the bed. The ones leading away from the motor are a mix of anticipation and dread. I knew how much this was going to hurt. I [...]
Posted on January 9th, 2012 by PTC*
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It’s not been anywhere near a hill, but this Haglöfs Nevluk has hardly been off my back the past few weeks. It’s been wet, cold, windy and miserable and the Nevluk has been perfect for it. If you think about it, heavy insulation probably should be waterproof, it’s going to be your outer layerwhen you sling it [...]
Posted on January 7th, 2012 by PTC*
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Following on from the long running and hugely popular Muscle Car of the Week series, the new year brings the all-new T-Shirt of the Week series. This is what the internet was made for, linking together people with a need to people with stuff. Finding this t-shirt was more than just a purchase, it was a [...]
Posted on January 7th, 2012 by PTC*
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Heroes are a good thing, I had heroes when I was young, still do really. You have to feel for young folk these days, where are the heroes to inspire them? Hidden behind a wall of talentless, meritless retards labelled “celebrity”. Tony Iommi has always been the fairy on top of my hero tree, the sounds [...]
Posted on January 7th, 2012 by PTC*
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The best day for weeks, blue sky, sparkling snow on the hills and I enjoyed every moment of it as me and Jimmy put the roof back on the workshop, a gift of the storms which for once were as bad as the media said they were. Weather = twisted bastard. However, with an hour [...]
Posted on January 5th, 2012 by PTC*
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