STove talk Episode 4 – long overdue

Well the show title says it all really doesn’t it. Hope you like it. In this show is part 1 of the Look At What We Found and a look at the Jetboil Flash from last years OTS at Stoneleigh.
If you have any comments or suggestions please leave them in the comments for this post [...]

New Podcast From Backpackinglight.co.uk

Just a little more frequent at the moment than my stove talk videos are the podcasts from Backpackinglight.co.uk. Ok there isn’t much in it. But Podcast Bob is getting them out more often than me at the moment. Anyway he now has a new podcast out that folks might want to pick up and listen [...]

Possible Ramblers 75th Annivesary Piece On TV Tonight

If you are at home tonight around tea time or 7pm as it is also known The One Show on BBC1 should be doing a piece about the Ramblers 75th anniversary. That bit of info comes straight from Tom Franklin’s twitter account. Who is Tom Franklin? Well he is according to his Twitter bio the [...]

Stovey Goodness

Well while myself and the rest of the world were all hanging off every word that Steve Jobs had to say about the iPad, Podcast Bob snuck out a new video podcast.
So what is this video all about? Over to Podcast Bob to tell you all about it:
"On a bitter cold winters day I get [...]

Walking Pole Extender Link Video

Remember me saying that Podcast Bob sent me one of the Walking Pole Extender Link? Well while I play with it etc I thought you might like to see the video that Podcast Bob has produced showing it off.
I am kicking myself for not picking this video up earlier, because it came out last month. [...]

Something To Watch On This Rainy Day

A friend sent a link to me during the week of this modern classic Saturday Night Live clip on Youtube. The clip stars Ben Afflick and is rather funny. It’s called Times Square Coat.

I’m pretty sure that Trail review coats like this each issue. I could see the Trail team creaming their pants [...]

More Listening For The Weekend From Excess Baggage

For the second weekend in a row that excellent BBC Radio 4 audio program put out over that old medium of the airwaves but also the interweb Excess Baggage has come up with the goods again. (phew that was a long sentence probably could of done with some punctuation in there somewhere.)
So once more I [...]

An Early Something For The Weekend

Here is an early heads up for tomorrows Excess Baggage.
I’m going to do something here that would totally annoy and make the blood pressure of Rupert Murdoch go through the roof. In fact I think he would get some of those pet reptiles of his to send me a nasty letter if he caught me.
So [...]

Something To Listen To This Weekend

By now you must of guessed that I subscribe to the podcast version of Excess Baggage. It is worth following with which ever your favourite podcast catching software is (mine is iTunes).
Well once more this excellent radio program has produced a program that I think folks will find of interest. As they say on the [...]

127 Hours

I would imagine the odd one or two readers of this blog have read the book Between A Rock and A Hard Place by Aron Ralston.
Aron if you are not familiar with his story is the guy that had to amputate his arm after getting it trapped under a large boulder while out on a [...]

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