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It’s all in your head

Posted by on February 10th 2009 in Just for fun, Thanks
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On Saturday a fellow blogger alerted me to an excellent online mental challenge. It's called Zahada.

There's plenty of stuff there to challenge your grey matter for a good few hours - some riddles are so easy that you'll overlook the answer, others are really fiendish.

If you're tempted to have a go, here are a few tips that might be of help:

  1. Read the rules (you'll find them in level 1)
  2. Don't post the answers online
  3. Keep a record of your answers
  4. Some riddles have more than one answer
  5. Study the whole page, not just the obvious bits - some clues are "hidden"
  6. Think laterally rather than deeply
  7. Look out for bonuses

So far, there are two Phases. At the end of each Phase, you have the opportunity to add your name to the list of us winners:

Phase 1 Winners

Phase 2 Winners

Good luck. If you need help, just holler!

Thanks, George.  🙂

Centurion

Posted by on November 5th 2008 in Congratulations!, Just for fun
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Congratulations go to Scott, our most regular provider of (often-irregular) comments.

Not content with consistently topping the leaderboard, last night he upped his tally to the 100 mark, thus earning himself this special mention.

I've not got a picture of him, so I dredged the interweb and came up with this alternative that I thought would be suitable. Just look at this bloke, all dressed up in his outdoors gear, standing there in such splendid isolation...

Image by Luc Viatour, reproduced under the terms and conditions stated here.

Red & yellow & pink & green, purple & orange & blue…

Posted by on November 3rd 2008 in Blast from the Past, Just for fun, Lakes Escapes, Pics
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Sorting through a pile of miscellaneous papers, we found a couple of prints that brought back happy memories. I whizzed them through the scanner to preserve copies of the images for posterity. They are from way back when the camera used film (Olympus OM10), outdoors gear was somewhat more colourful and the NT campsite at Wasdale was comparatively tree-less. I'll wager you can tell which is our tent...

 

 

 

Some of you older dyed-in-the-wool gear-heads might even be able to guess the identity of the colourful kit that's on display. To give you a clue, we're talking early 90s here. There'll be no prizes, mind - I'm not as generous as Weird Darren :mrgreen:

You want more clues? OK... Wild Country, Berghaus, Karrimor, Lowe Alpine, Taunton Leisure, Tilley, Heinz...

Plans on ice

Posted by on October 31st 2008 in Great Escapes, Just for fun
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Events have conspired to force the cancellation of this weekend's intended wildcamping trip. Mike Bell was going to accompany me on a leisurely round of the Coniston Fells (from Dow Crag round to a pub in Coniston via Holme Fell) but he's got a bad back and needs to rest up. I was going to do the route with or without him, but there are things I need to get done here this weekend, things that I should have got done during the week but never did. It's a shame, because the weather up there's going to be excellent, according to the forecasts. Never mind, the route (and hopefully the snow) will still be there next month. I'll leave you with something for Halloween, courtesy of Colonel Blimp:  

Brazilians

Posted by on September 23rd 2008 in Just for fun, LMAO!

Received in the mail today from my good friend Dave:

 

Swabbin’ the decks

Posted by on September 18th 2008 in Just for fun, Site update
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Been doing a bit of tidying up:

  • All unused tags (created by an auto-tagging plugin that I used for a while) have been deleted;
  • Quite a few new links have been added to the blogroll dropdowns;
  • Some other bits and bobs have been added to the sidebar;
  • All dead links in posts have been repaired or deleted;
  • Hell, I've even cleaned the screen and removed all of the cookie-crumbs from under the keys!

See you tomorrow, fellow pirates, but only through me one good eye!

 

Yaaarrr!
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