New Arrival

Our new arrival arrived safely after a couple of slight hitches on the 20th of August at 5.30pm. She weighed only 7lbs 6oz. She had to stay in the hospital with mum for a couple of days but was home by Sunday. She is gorgeous and both Mum and Dad love her to bits. A week old and she is doing well. Right now she is sound alseep next to me.

With mum still in the hospital.


Elizabeth Skye Allan
20th August 2009

SORC Drumglog Challenge 2009

Last weekend saw the annual SORC Drumglog Winch Challenge. I competed last year. Details can be found here. This year with a higher spec car and a bit more experience I was hoping to do better than the second place I managed last year. Unfortunately everyone else was the same. More experience and well prepared cars.

Entrance to the first section we attemted.

The event was a bit different to the previous events as Rab had set up specific sections we had to drive through and on a couple of sections there were two punches to be got.

Making the first punch of the day early is always a good feeling. It gives you loads of confidence.

After getting that I had to turn the car on the hill and drive out through a ditch following the red and white tape and get the punch on the steep climb out the other side.


Unfortunately still in the first section I managed to put my car on it's side. It then took us a while to get it sorted and up out of the ditch to the next punch.


My winchman Robert telling me what the options were as all I could see was dirt and sky!!!

Gavin and GRC who we teamed up with exiting the 3rd stage we did after I had just exited. Yes it was a steep descent to the river.........

The day was really enjoyable and thankyou very much to Marcus who took all the pictures you see here. More Picture from SORC events can be found here.
If you have a 4x4 and fancy trying some more gentle forest off road driving then you can come along to the SORC Wheels in the Woods event. Details can be found on the SORC Site here.

New Number!

The Discovery has a new Number. Thanks to my lovely wife my anniversary present is now on the car.

Perthshire Hill Rally 2009

This year I was helping Dave Mac out with service for 3 Tomcats. Driven by Alan Crow, Paul Ansley and Iain Lawrie.

Alan Crow at the finish.

Iain Lawrie at the finish.

Paul on the finish line

Three Tomcats still in one piece and ready for the last stage.

This shot taken at the last Service on the Saturday before one last stage.

All the cars did very well. We had 2 first in classes a 2nd in class and a 4th and 5th overall. All in all some good results. A good learning curve and a very sunny weekend. It was back to work on Sunday afternoon with a good bit of sun burn.....

The Road to Skye

After 10 years of promising Jax we would go to Skye finally we got there. We had some great weather. I manged to get a hike in up the Cullins round the back of the inaccessable pinicale. We were away for 4 days. We had 25degree plus weather for at least 2 of the days and it was not until we got to Aberfeldy that it rained.

Rear view mirror art. Made from floatsome found on the Beach in GlenBrittle.

The Fairy Pools. No I'm not the Fairy!!!

554metres. Up the Cullins.

Jax with a bump on the beach in Glenbrittle.

Beach shot looking West.

The campsite at Glenbrittle. We had sunshine like this for 3 days!!!

The view from my hike.

My Car and the Cullins.

On the Road to Skye. Eliean Donan Castle