[Footwork]

Bugger, i'll have to check how it's spelt on the coffee machine now

Piss off Will, I'll have you for defamation and so will Worzel I got 79% on the practice test i'll have you know. Shame about the real one

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Open season
8 November 2013, 10:41 am

Imagine my disbelief when walking into my living room one morning, to find a reindeer sat on the...

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White trousers is a universal sign that a girl isn't on her period.
18 November 2013, 10:00 pm

Sam: Sophie, would you wear white trousers if you were on your period? Sophie: No. Sam: So would...

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Groovy
24 November 2013, 5:58 pm

Someone recently pestered me that I wasn’t writing enough. I am flattered, really. But the...

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Haiku
27 November 2013, 3:07 pm

Poor Sam forced to go To knitting and stitching show No climbing for you

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Man in tights scares off spotters
3 December 2013, 10:28 am

I love these darker mornings, the sound of a house slowly waking up from a deep slumber. The first...

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A short law interlude
16 December 2013, 6:52 pm

Meanwhile, during Land law… ‘So why were you in the library at 7.30 this morning...

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Merry Christmas
22 December 2013, 10:13 am

To everyone who reads this blog. Hope you all have a great holiday and festivities. I’m...

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Train on!
31 December 2013, 10:29 am

Well christmas is over. I ate too much, drank too much. Got some things I don’t really need to...

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I hope you had to look it up too
9 January 2014, 3:26 pm

I learnt a new word today.  I am not a pecunious person.  Indeed I am not.  Even less so now I...

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That boy needs therapy
14 January 2014, 10:08 pm

I find this rather resembles the theme of this post.  I...

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[Will Hunt]

I fucking knew it.
To spur you into action, I will not accept that you have climbed a particular grade until you have matched it with a problem that is not at Almscliff.
I hear there are some good 7B+ problems in Yorkshire, bon chance.

[tomtom]

And I thought my Almscliff obsession was bad good effort - keep up the keel combo's!

[Stubbs]

Not just Almscliff, but one boulder at Almscliff, impressive narrowness of vision!

[tim palmer]

Don't listen to them!  There is no need to climb anywhere else, they are just jealous because they can't do the keel.

[Will Hunt]

they are just jealous because they can't do the keel.

But we can! You've done t' Keel haven't you Stubbs?

[tomtom]

they are just jealous because they can't do the keel.

But we can! You've done t' Keel haven't you Stubbs?

indeed and it IS 7C  (especially for the tall)

I'm just gearing up for a Feb Jess' roof seige... (already doing my 3 pad chimney squirming exercises)

[Stubbs]

But we can! You've done t' Keel haven't you Stubbs?

Never been to Almscliff myself, never saw the point of it...

[tomtom]

But we can! You've done t' Keel haven't you Stubbs?

Never been to Almscliff myself, never saw the point of it...

Exactly - over-rated scrittle. It should be avoided by all - especially at weekends when conditions are good
#CliffLove

[moose]

I'm just gearing up for a Feb Jess' roof seige... (already doing my 3 pad chimney squirming exercises)

My latest nadir was New Year's Day spent trying to work Jess' Roof during a storm.  I'd squeezed down the gully early doors, hoping for a quick grit hit before the forecast bad weather arrived. I eventually admitted defeat due to numb fingers and water pouring down the walls; emerged onto the crag top looking like a drowned rat to 40mphs winds that nearly blew me off the edge.  Not sure if it's worth having a rematch - very difficult to judge whether it's worth working or just too hard since the landing stops me from committing to any of the crux moves.  That said I'm not sure if there are many other options.  I've now done my other Almscliff, Brimham, and Baildon projects (unless I train for the Bulb or the Underhand Super-extension, or buy a bouncy-castle to put under Pistol Whip); and Caley has been wet for weeks.

[JacobJacob]

Not just Almscliff, but one boulder at Almscliff, impressive narrowness of vision!

The beauty of it is, if you get tired of working Keelhaul there is no need to move to a new crag, or even a different boulder... Just a slightly different set of holds!

The Real Keel is waiting... 

[Footwork]

I fucking knew it.
To spur you into action, I will not accept that you have climbed a particular grade until you have matched it with a problem that is not at Almscliff.
I hear there are some good 7B+ problems in Yorkshire, bon chance.

Come on Will, when i no longer live in Yorkshire you'll miss complaining about all of this  (but hopefully i'll never move so I can progress to the real bulbhaul) Accept what you want, ignorance is bliss

I might have to join you and your flotilla of pads Tomtom! (they really will be floating). I did promise myself I would climb it... I can provide more dog eared pads to that destitute place.

[tomtom]

I've had 3-4 sessions on Jess' - mainly watching and having the odd go whilst RobL was trying it 18 months or so ago.. feels quite do-able but I was not strong enough then.. Nice problem - good moves. Very much like a climbing wall style problem.. Surprisingly well protected if you get a semi vertical pad over the last lump and one at the bottom of the pit - you fall against the semi vert pad and plop to the bottom..

[tim palmer]

indeed and it IS 7C  (especially for the tall)

Typo no? (?7b)

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The great plains of the cliff
21 January 2014, 4:50 pm

Naaants ingonyama bagithi Baba Sithi uhm ingonyamaaa The storm had driven them out. They came in...

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