I was just driving along the banks of Loch Tay looking for my usual photo opportunities when I saw this shop .... When I say I saw it , I mean I nearly crashed the car , it's a thing of beauty !!

The only sad thing is the shop is no longer open , but why not ? Is it a PC thing that people are turned off by the thought of horn carving ? I hope not , it is obviously a dying (or dead) art and the man would have been an artist in carving and or that his skill should have been preserved .

If you're going to get tattoo's done , make them old school .

The ones shown on this page are all mine and all on my right arm and courtesy of my favourite tattooist Frankie , and he done one hell of a job .

These are my latest buy , a boot so ugly it's beautiful .

I think of these as the duck billed platypus of the boot world ... if you were to describe them to anyone they'd never believe they even existed ....BUT ... put them in their own environment and they are unbeatable and TOTALLY functional and for someone who spends some of their personal time walking across streams to get better photographs there isn't better footwear on the planet .