Category Archives: Turf

Yesterday at TurfEmba10 turfer Fearglas mentioned about my unofficial medals, which got me thinking that evening just what else could I think up? Well, I’ve come up with two of them, the 2-in-1 and the 3-in-1 medals. The concept is … Continue reading →

Saturday 28th January and my second turfing event, TurfEmbra10, centred on Oxgangs and Colinton areas of Edinburgh. The event ran from 3.00 to 4.30 pm and some 23 intrepid turfers signed up to take part. The event base was the … Continue reading →

First of all, apologies for some downtime on Planet Gary. This was due to the need to update the programming language that the site runs on. Planet Gary uses a software package called WordPress, this in turn requires an underlying … Continue reading →

With the weather hovering around or below freezing point these past few days what little snow that fell earlier has remained in place just enough to grant me another of my unofficial medals. With 88 zones taken over the last … Continue reading →

I’m going to start today’s turf blog with a few points about Squirt. Yes, Squirt, a wax-based long-lasting chain lube. I’ve been trying out Squirt for about a year now and much prefer it over the usual oil-based chain lube … Continue reading →

It actually snowed last night, not a lot, but it snowed. Okay, not much more than one inch of snow, that’s about 25 mils metrically speaking and to be honest I thought initially that taking the Surly Pugsley fat bike … Continue reading →

Roll up, roll up, for the greatest turf adventure in the multiverse, well, here in Scotland anyway. Yes, TurfEmbra10 is here, the turf event you’ve all been waiting for. Take strange and exotic turf zones, meet equally strange and exotic … Continue reading →

When I first starting turfing back in January 2021 there was around 800 turfers active in Scotland, today, two years later, that number has fallen to less than 300. Globally, we see a similar trend with numbers at that time … Continue reading →

Newtongrange is not on my list of favourite locations for turfing, mainly because it takes 30 minutes on the kick scooter to get there and most of that is uphill. And for those not in-the-know, kick scooting uphill is hard … Continue reading →

There’s a scene in Fargo, season 1, where a rather evil and nasty character called Lorne Malvo, aptly played by Billy Bob Thornton, is on the phone to another main character by the name of Lester Nygaard, portrayed by Martin … Continue reading →