Pen Y Part 2

Today was the day, returning back to the Brecon beacons to do the same circuit as completed before, this time carrying approximately 5 times the weight this time. But this time I would receive a helping hand from my new LOWA elites, although they hadn’t been broken in. With Weather Forecast showing light showers in Brecon and the poor weather in Bracknell as we set of in the morning I was expecting it to drizzle all day and a pretty miserable trek round , but how wrong the weather forecast was, clear skies is what we experienced all day. The ascents seemed harder this time around but I’m attributing that to new boots and a heavy carried weight, but obviously these didn’t stop us to much as we smashed our previous time around the circuit mainly for running the decent down from the top of Corn Du(824m) back to the car park(400m). So all in all a good day and hopefully I shall be returning for round three soon. Farewell for now Pen Y

A-lowa HMSupplies

With Trip to the Brecon beacons coming up fast, it was time for me to purchases some hiking boots rather than borrow other people for once, so the Search went out for a decent part of hiking boots. First stop today was after a pointless visit to Guildford and its surprisingly very poor outdoor hiking and trekking shops, although the M&S lunch did have it redeeming qualities. After this disappointing trip I took a chance on a store that I knew existed but had no idea what it stocked or where the hell it was, this Shop was HMSupplies in Camberley. This Store is probably the best Surplus and Adventure Store I’ve seen, easily 4 times bigger that all the other stores of the day. Upon the highest Shelve was want I considered to be the Holy Grail of Hiking Shoes LOWA Elites and for only £120! Cheaper than even the store I found online which was having a 10% sale on LOWA’s so this last ditch trip turn out to be a great trip and I can tell you know all the equipment I’ve brought online stupidly when it’s all been just 7 miles away will I’m sure lead me to become HMSupplies new best customer.

You cant get out a blog entry that easy no, Not without a fight!

Not Without a Fight is the sixth studio album of New Found Glory. A distinct move has been made for this album by pulling in Blink 182’s Mark Hoppus as its producer, the albums tone and lyrics in contrast to its predecessor Coming Home, due to issues faced by band members. Unlike other younger pop-punk contemporaries, New found Glory no longer seems smitten with the idea of a happy relationship; there are precious few traces of the urgent, here's-to-the-night ethos that other Bands champion so heartily. One of the biggest improvements can be clearly heard as frontman Jordan Pundik, sounds considerably less nasal here than on previous records. Making this one of new found glory’s technically better albums to date and one which I hope will start a new phase in New found Glorys story and one which I will be following intently.

Back to Ye Olde School

Recently I’ve returned back to (in my opinion) one of the best games created in recent years The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, released back in 2006 the game has aged very well in my opinion and has graphics better or rivalling more recent titles. Of course having played this game many times before racking up ridiculous hours (I believe somewhere in the vicinity of 200) theirs the problem with repetition, but if there’s one thing I’ve learnt over the years of playing this game is that as long as you skip the extremely repetitive conservations with NPC‘s, that the sandbox style of game play allows you to create a different story for your character every time and therefore a different game, making replayability a key point of the game.

Apparently there is a new elder scrolls game under development set for release in 2010, but I’m sure that if oblivion has held its own as one of my favourite games for the last 3 years, I’m sure it can hang on another year until the next instalment comes out. Finally many of you reading this will have played Oblivion if you haven’t you best get moving because you have clearly missed out!