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Entries from November 2008

The first snows are here…

November 25th, 2008 View Comments

And with it, my mid slips to sledging. Via the goat I spotted this fantabulous contraption, I’m wondering if I can sledge down Cern Abbas in this! Apparently it’s designed to continue going even if you are upside down.

I’m trying to persuade our new buyer Keith we need to be stocking this…….

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The Buzz in the Hills

November 18th, 2008 View Comments

Walking in drizzle is always a bit of a treat for me as we hardly seem to ever get it anymore, there’s something refreshing and beautifully British about it and this weekend saw some fine drizzle as we walked just down from Stourhead along the tops of White Sheet hill overlooking the estate itself. [...]

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Marmot Base-layers appear on Channel 5’s Gadget Show

November 12th, 2008 View Comments

Got a head-us up today to note that the gadget show did a technical challenge around base-layer technical garments recently, and uploaded their video to the gadget show site here. Forward it to around 6:50m to see the actual segment

What was definitely of interest is that they covered the Marmot base layers and gave [...]

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UK Online Shoppers set to spend a record £13.16bn

November 11th, 2008 View Comments

BBC News has released some figures from a survey of 60 online retailers which shows that the average christmas shopper in the UK will spend around £215 each, for a total of £13.16 billion online!

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