Now You Can Listen To The Posts

Yep you read that right. I’ve signed up to a service (free) that automatically turns my written word into an audio podcast. So not got time to read my crap, down load the audio file and listen to it down the gym, in your car. Well basically anywhere where you listen to stuff already. Heck [...]

New Look

What can I say, I’ve been thinking about a new look for the blog for a while. Guess what? I found a theme I liked the look of, and that is what you are seeing now.
Let’s face it the old look (which I can switch back to very quickly) has been with us for [...]

Spot 2.0 This Autumn In The US of A

Spot are showing off version 2.0 of their Spot device at the Outdoor Retailers Summer 09 show that is happening over in the US of A.
So let’s get straight down to what has changed in this update.
I’ve taken the following off their press release, so the Spot 2.0 is:

30% smaller and lighter than the original [...]

So Who Won The WhiteBox Solo And Kettle?

I was gobsmacked with the number of entries that this competition had. In the end there were 101 entries.
Well I’ve been over to www.random.org and used their random number generator to chose who the winner of the competition is.

Entry number 10 is Alan Sloman. Apparently he never wins anything and wouldn’t know what to [...]

Competition Reminder

Fancy winning one of these GSI Kettles (Picture on left taken from Backpackinglight.co.uk)? Well you can along with one of the new Whitebox Solo stoves.
So what do you have to do to win these fabulous prizes?
It’s simple really pop on over to the original competition post HERE and leave a comment. That’s it [...]

Now With Added Facebook Fan Page Power!

I’ve decided in a rash moment to start a Facebook Fan Page for this blog!
Why? Who knows, not sure myself yet. But it seemed a good idea this morning. Anyway for those that have won the competitions in the past and have any photos of themselves using the prizes I’d love it if you could [...]

Freedom2Surf Feck Up Again

I should of posted this yesterday, but wanted to give my ISP a chance. As a part of Freedom2Surfs continuing attempt to provide a crap service I currently have no email. It’s been down since the early hours of yesterday (so over 24 hours now). It has had one or two emails through in that [...]

Oooops

Some of you may of noticed that my blog was down for a couple of hours this evening (or last night if you are reading this the next day). I wish I could say it was due to the blog being so popular that it exceeded the bandwidth quota for the month. But sadly this [...]

Bargain Hunting Post Updated

Done some tinkering to the side bars of the blog. See if you can spot what has changed.
In the meantime I’ll get to the point of this posting, which is to say that I did a minor update to my Bargain Hunting posting I did a little while ago.
This is a great little posting [...]

Another Prize Added To Birthday Competition

With the Birthday Competition closing tomorrow at midnight GMT, there has been a late addition to the prizes to be won.
The new prize is a years membership to The John Muir Trust.
The prize has been donated by some-one who wishes to remain anonymous, which I will respect. But at the same time will say [...]

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