I was at the Haglöfs shed of joy yesterday seeing the 2011 kit, which I’ll have live in a day or two. Or next week if the weather’s good in Kintail… We have new shirts, new fabrics, new colours, and my own personal favourite, softshell hotpants for the girls. I’m not joking either, 70’s style [...]
Posted on July 20th, 2010 by PTC*
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I always wanted a white Flying V with a white headstock. It’s an ’80s metal thing, mostly because of Accept, they were tripping over all-white vees on stage. But, they’re hard to get and Gibson have only made black-faced headstock models since the early 80’s, unless you want to pay $5000 for a custom shop [...]
Posted on July 16th, 2010 by PTC*
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The Trail mag that’s just out is the lightweight special as well as the 20th anniversary issue, and it really is full of stuff and things.
I don’t mention my Trail stuff much, I probably should as most of my trips would make more sense if the route in the mag was flagged up. Like the [...]
Posted on July 12th, 2010 by PTC*
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The tatters of the weekend blew about my feet like a whirlwind of crisp pokes in a playground twister.
Plans had come to nothing, illness, inconvenience and insubordination seems to fit together quite well, so I’ll blame those.
I climbed into the attic to check the pressure on the heating (yes my filling loop is up there, what [...]
Posted on July 11th, 2010 by PTC*
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There’s been so much of my usual stuff missing on here recently, it’s like someone’s tidied up while I’ve been away and I can’t find anything.
When I saw the pink bleed across the low cloud over the river I reached for the camera thinking that it would be nice to see my favourite familiar view looking [...]
Posted on July 9th, 2010 by PTC*
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Jimmy only seemed vaguely interested as the safety valves were tested. They worked fine, although bringing a steam boiler to enough pressure to make the safety’s lift is always feels like something I should viewing on CCTV rather than standing on top of the boiler tightening bolts as is hisses angrily and vibrates with enough pressure to level [...]
Posted on July 9th, 2010 by PTC*
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The clicking of the camera and the clunking of titanium cookwear on white background paper was good in two ways, unusual test kit has arrived, and I was home a little early. Steam test tomorrow though, and it if doesn’t all go on its tits I’m having the weekend off.
Not going near a mountain ’til [...]
Posted on July 8th, 2010 by PTC*
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Last night had many unusuals baked into it. I was in the city centre at night, a school-night at that, and I was in a pub. One can of Irn Bru did me all night right enough, but being in a pub at any time is like having an out-of-body experience for me these days.
There [...]
Posted on July 6th, 2010 by PTC*
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I stopped a wee bit early today. My shoulder is loupin’, the wind and rain were no fun on the roof as I fannied about with the pipework up there, and, I just couldn’t be arsed frankly.
So, I said to Holly did she want to see if the Amy Pond figure was in the shop? There was [...]
Posted on July 4th, 2010 by PTC*
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I sat on the roof watching the clouds whip past. Ben Lomond shouldered the bottom end on it’s upper-most slopes until after lunchtime when it finally lifted clear of the summit. I could see past it to the Glen Falloch hills, just grey shapes today though.
It’s funny how the outdoors has just disappeared. Hmm, not disappeared, just [...]
Posted on July 2nd, 2010 by PTC*
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The magical lady of the Highlands danced through the crags and rested by a rock, she turned back to me and her voice floated down on the cool breeze “Just a little farther, there’s a perfect pitch with a hidden spring not too far away…”
I smiled and followed her, it would be nice to get to [...]
Posted on June 29th, 2010 by PTC*
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Binge and bastard purge.
I’m dead on my feet tonight. This week so far has been played without a pause: 40 hours of pipes so far, more at the weekend; two nights in the hills, a late-evening meeting with a customer, a night in the studio (where if we can’t get a recording slot for the [...]
Posted on June 26th, 2010 by PTC*
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