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Month: January 2005

Forest Walking Machine!!

8 January, 2005 by Alistair

WOW!! Look at this machine The machine actually adapts to the forest floor. It moves around on 6 legs which can move it forward, backward, sideways and diagonally. It actually steps over obstacles. Now thats what I call a real off roader. If you go to this page you can see these babies in action….

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Carbon shortage

7 January, 2005 by Alistair

I hear that the price of carbon is set to rise, due to a worldwide shortage. A lot of this is blamed on the massive amounts used by the space industry as well as a defense project. This means that all the carbon suppliers are going to be woud up with fulfilling the orders. Seemingly…

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Last 20 search terms!!

6 January, 2005 by Alistair

Not done a what people search for to get here things for a while….. Last 20 Search Terms: record shark (Google) fishing camera (Google) oliver edwards (Google) Glasgow angling centre (Google) BBC accident Nov 2004 (Google) william joseph rain jacket (Google) pictures%20of%20trout (AOL) how to strip woodchip (Google) burbot caught in england (Yahoo) iron bru…

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Tying Desk!!!

3 January, 2005 by Alistair

I was chatting to someone about where to tie up flies. I need somewhere with good light so I really should tie in the Kitchen. I usually end up doing it in the living room- taking up nearly half the room. I stay in a small flat and cannot wait until I have a house…

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All Year I Say!!

3 January, 2005 by Alistair

I have not caught a trout all year. I think maybe tommorow or at some point this week I will take a wee walk down to the Kelvin and do a litte reconnaissance . Last year when I went down some pools had changed shape and some flows had been diverted because of the heavy…

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