Monthly Archive » February 2007


Football Madness

Posted in Random on 26 Feb 2007 at 22:59 

Got this sent to me today, had to share. The Beautiful Game? :S

YouTube - Italy V Chile 1962

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Busy, busy…

Posted in Life on 26 Feb 2007 at 22:55 

Madness, it’s been a while since I’ve posted anything at all! Why? Well besides not having anything to talk about besides work, I’ve just been too busy.

Lot of stuff going on… Rosie’s moved out, Tom’s moved in, climbing a lot at the wall, sore fingers, getting a MacBook (yes I finally saw the light and gave up on Windows) and digi camcorder… and off to North Wales tomorrow for the UNUMC Annual Dinner at the weekend. Should be great, even if MetCheck is right about all the rain ;)

Stay tuned anyway, I’ve not given up completely… there’ll def be photos from the week up if nothing else!

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Peak at the Weekend

Posted in Climbing on 01 Feb 2007 at 14:20 

Well, this is only a few days late… Was finally climbing something outdoors that wasn’t made of plastic at the weekend! Sadly, it was still soaked from snow melt but there was still some decent bouldering to be had at Stanage.

In actual fact I didn’t place a single piece of gear all weekend! I barely put on a harness, only to follow Mark up a “not quite dry” diff crack. What did get done was worthwhile though. An attempted HVS solo/boulder problem… great except for the relatively simple top few holds were dripping (if only I’d been able to see them from the ground). Jumping off from 5+ meters isn’t ideal, but then slipping off from 6+ is even less so I guess ;) Other than this there was much to be attempted in the boulderfield, reminding me just how useless (read: invisible or seriously just not there!) grit holds can be at times.

Sunday never really shaped up to be a “great gritstone day”. Even ignoring the fact we were out clubbing (or for me: sleeping standing up) the night before, when we got out the car at Burbage we were nearly blown into the valley right there and then. Once we’d struggled to the crag it was all damp and it started raining around 12 anyway. So…

Climbing Works in Sheffield it was! This place is actually well worth getting excited about. Ok, so it’s still indoors, and still plastic, but the problems are varied enough in style and difficulty to keep you occupied much longer than your body will allow. And with so many of us descending on the place at once, it was almost like being at the crag ;)

Anyway, I’m still only just recovering from a quality weekend… here’s hoping for more climbing weekends to come this year!

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