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About Me

I like cake, except when I have a cold.
This site effectively came about so that I could see other peoples' sites, and also to make up for the international crime that is www.martincurtis.com.
What a wasted opportunity of a website name that was.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Nigel Mansell again.

My Blog

The armpit question

After a 4 month trial period I now feel that I am ready to endorse the armpit whiff revelation that is PITROK! Over the years I struggled to find the perfect underarm solution.  Sp...
Posted by on Tue, 05 Aug 2008 10:18:00 GMT

Further repairs

I was just casting my eye back over the hiking blogs of mine of two years ago, that frankly I'd forgotten I'd ever written, but it reminded me to do another repair company shout out... (yes, this is b...
Posted by on Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:20:00 GMT

Photo link

http://www.kodakgallery.co.uk/I.jsp?c=zldnfq5.949x2efh&x =0&y=tgzi1p There - true to my word. Just click on the first picture to view them without having to sign up or login to the service.
Posted by on Wed, 26 Jul 2006 00:53:00 GMT

Photos

I'm not very good at altering photos on here as I have to do it all whislt in the office and sometimes at the end of another long hard day that's the last thing I want to bother with. But this ev...
Posted by on Mon, 24 Jul 2006 23:45:00 GMT

3 Peaks - How not to do it

We had everything planned in accordance with the Tenovus rules... 2 designated drivers, one minibus hired, 7 hikers.  We were all set. The group from London were on their way up on the train on ...
Posted by on Tue, 20 Jun 2006 11:10:00 GMT

Give wildly to charity...

I forgot to say - if you would like to donate to the Tenovus cancer charity in response to our 3 peaks challenge success then please do so at www.justgiving.com/tenovus3peakschallenge Thanks - very gr...
Posted by on Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:01:00 GMT

surprises are by their nature, surprising

The failed boots were dropped off at the shop on 23 May.  The man wrote URGENT! all over the form that he attached to them and said they shouldn't be long... On 2 June I called the repa...
Posted by on Mon, 05 Jun 2006 13:44:00 GMT

Gore-tex: my bane of my boots

Gore-tex itself is flimsy.  It's like cling film, only thinner.  Your toe nail could puncture it, or a bramble.  So why use it as a waterproof liner on a walking boot?  This is a t...
Posted by on Fri, 26 May 2006 15:47:00 GMT

The law of averages dictates...

...the weathermen have to get it right occasionally.  And so it was that last weekend's trip would turn into something of a wash out.  But it didn't deter our hardy hero as yet more mountain...
Posted by on Thu, 25 May 2006 15:04:00 GMT

Sack the weathermen

Weather forecasting appears to be th only job at which you can be consistently wrong and yet keep your job.  Friday's forecast for Saturday in Snowdonia was dismal.  I was woken u...
Posted by on Sun, 14 May 2006 10:58:00 GMT