Spitfires and Hurricanes (81-84)

Not only could Pentland provide the financial backing Fireman needed but also, they had offices in Hongkong and Pusan, Korea the home of HS corporation and their factory. To head his development Paul recruited Steve Liggett, who would spend much of the next five years flying to and from Pusan where he stayed for months on end.

Sticky Floor! ’96

My life at Karrimor was not all KSBs, half of the job was day sacs. We had a massive choice of packs for single day walkers.

My feet continually stuck to the floor care of the residue from the Capitol hotel carpet, I’m sure what ever was on the floor it melted the soles of my shoes.

Slow boat (shoe) to China. (’93-’95)

Our ancient limousine would chug its way through cricket ball sized rubble interspersed with boulders being broken up by men with sledgehammers and bicycle wheeled, rickshaw style wheelbarrows. While thousands of men chipped away at the mountainside by hand and the rickshaw crews dumped it in the sea. Huge billboards covered in layers of dust proclaimed the new container port of Yantian.