I want to share with you today what my good friend Antony Jinman is up to.
Antony is a local professional explorer and educator on climate change and he is launching an Antarctic expeditions in the footsteps of Captain Scott.
This will be marking the city's heros death 100 years ago.
Antony will be to travel to the site where Scott and his party died and they will hold a memorial service there. This will be happening in 2012 to help celebrate the 100th anniversary.
Descendants of those on the scoot expedition will be the 2nd party who will meet Antony and his team at the site for the commemoration ceremony.
Antony's Education Through Expeditions project is based at the University of Plymouth.
If you would like to find out more about Antony and his project, and more about the
International Scott Centenary Expedition (isce) please copy and pasted these addresses into your browser.
http://www.etelive.org/index.numo
http://www.etelive.org/content/content.numo?ida=1&idas=21
You can also find Antony on Facebook and Twitter
I would like to wish Antony and all his team the very best of luck for the project.
I could sit here and write a long blog entry about Antony and all that he does, but his website is just so amazing and packed with a ton of information that I would rather direct you guys to him rather then sit and read what I have to say. Antony is a great person and he is doing so much to help educate people on climate change, and the guy is so passionate, he came round to have Dinner with me and The Fox one evening and I could of listened to him talk for hours, its so amazing to hear what he has to say.
Thanks for reading rug fans,
The Captain
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Thursday, 4 November 2010
A very sexy rug
Hey rug fans!
As you have probably guessed by the title of this post today, I have just finished cleaning a very sexy rug. Now I know alot of you are reading this now with a shocked look on your face, and wondering if im a sandwich sort of a picnic! but im not.
And no, i dont think anyone has ever put the words rug and sexy in the same sentence, until now!
I picked this "sexy" rug up from one of my fans the other day and its a red hand knotted Morrocan rug, and its a stunner. The central medalion is mainly red with a beautiful ivory pattern, and the outer and inner fields are decorated with a beautiful design with bright blues and ivory colours and a hint of green.
And the wefts( the wool fiber that runs from left to right on the foundation of the rug) is RED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! this rug is offically a BLEEDIER!!! I had to clean this rug very carefully, so carefully infact I could only dry clean it. I did my dry cloth test and my damp cloth tests and in all my tests the red transferred onto my white towel. that my friends is not good, not good at all.
So I just used my RugBadger on it and cleaned it with my low moisture system and the rug has come up like brand new, with NO colour run. I offically dare any of my not so well educated competitors to get the same result!
Any way I wanted to share this story with you as a warning to you all. Even if you have no intention of using me as your rug cleaner, please, please, please be careful when putting your rugs in the hands of someone who is not properly trained on how to handle "difficult" rugs.
Until next time rug fans, thanks for reading
The Captain
As you have probably guessed by the title of this post today, I have just finished cleaning a very sexy rug. Now I know alot of you are reading this now with a shocked look on your face, and wondering if im a sandwich sort of a picnic! but im not.
And no, i dont think anyone has ever put the words rug and sexy in the same sentence, until now!
I picked this "sexy" rug up from one of my fans the other day and its a red hand knotted Morrocan rug, and its a stunner. The central medalion is mainly red with a beautiful ivory pattern, and the outer and inner fields are decorated with a beautiful design with bright blues and ivory colours and a hint of green.
And the wefts( the wool fiber that runs from left to right on the foundation of the rug) is RED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! this rug is offically a BLEEDIER!!! I had to clean this rug very carefully, so carefully infact I could only dry clean it. I did my dry cloth test and my damp cloth tests and in all my tests the red transferred onto my white towel. that my friends is not good, not good at all.
So I just used my RugBadger on it and cleaned it with my low moisture system and the rug has come up like brand new, with NO colour run. I offically dare any of my not so well educated competitors to get the same result!
Any way I wanted to share this story with you as a warning to you all. Even if you have no intention of using me as your rug cleaner, please, please, please be careful when putting your rugs in the hands of someone who is not properly trained on how to handle "difficult" rugs.
Until next time rug fans, thanks for reading
The Captain
Monday, 1 November 2010
sorry its been a while
hey everyone, dont worry im still here!
I am sorry I have not been blogging for a while, ive been so busy cleaning rugs my feet have hardly touched the ground. Ive had some beautiful rugs lately in my studio, Ive had several amazing Persians and one in particular was the smelliest rug I have ever cleaned. It was a beautiful hand knoted Persian that was in really good condition. but! the owners dog enjoyed sleeping on the rug, so as you can imagine it was a bit smelly! but have no fear i successfully cleaned it and my new number 1 fan was over the moon. She was so impressed with the work i had done she handed me a rather large hand knotted Morroccan rug to clean, which iplan to do this week. Its very red and im very scared!!! only kidding i cant wait to get stuck into cleaning this rug.
Well folks sorry this post is not very interesting and there are no photos, but i just wanted to let you all know that im still here, and if you have any questions for me, please do not hesitate in getting in contact with me.
until next time everyone.
Thanks for reading
Your friend The Captain
I am sorry I have not been blogging for a while, ive been so busy cleaning rugs my feet have hardly touched the ground. Ive had some beautiful rugs lately in my studio, Ive had several amazing Persians and one in particular was the smelliest rug I have ever cleaned. It was a beautiful hand knoted Persian that was in really good condition. but! the owners dog enjoyed sleeping on the rug, so as you can imagine it was a bit smelly! but have no fear i successfully cleaned it and my new number 1 fan was over the moon. She was so impressed with the work i had done she handed me a rather large hand knotted Morroccan rug to clean, which iplan to do this week. Its very red and im very scared!!! only kidding i cant wait to get stuck into cleaning this rug.
Well folks sorry this post is not very interesting and there are no photos, but i just wanted to let you all know that im still here, and if you have any questions for me, please do not hesitate in getting in contact with me.
until next time everyone.
Thanks for reading
Your friend The Captain
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