[Oldmanmatt]

Go for it!
Life is shorter than you think.

[fatdoc]

I handed my notice in at work last week. I have come to realise whats truly important in life, and missing out on spending time with my loved ones to pursue a career in an awful place is just not right.

I am moving back to my parents farm at Keswick to allow me to spend more time with my family, especially my two young daughters who I have hardly seen for the last 7 months. I am going to be spending the next few years helping my folks on the farm but also learning the skills needed to start my own business doing dry stone walling, fencing and other boundary work.

I have never been more sure, and finally feel like I have found what I should be doing in life. Happiness is the key.

fuckin respect.....

i too have learnt i need more time.... it's been a harsh few years. a harsher lesson to learn this.

2012... let's all have it. i too am totally sure...a great and rare frame of mind out of childhood - damn those little critters seem to have all the answers.

[Mike Tyson]

Go for it!
Life is shorter than you think.

My dad was pretty ill over Christmas, like I have never seen before. It scared me and it made me realise I had to do something to help. I have wasted years working in retail, but funnily enough, my dad did loads of jobs before taking over the farm from my grandad! I can't do that unfortunatly as the Cunty County Council, who we lease the farm from, are hell bent on selling it. It does however give me the chance to make the change in my life to help my parents and help myself as well.

Its a big year for me, on the 30th of April I turn 30 years old, I will work my last shift for a heartless retail monster and then move my life back to where it all began, my family home! I am over the moon, and look forward to the future now as I feel like its all ready planned out and that fate truly has stepped in. Its quite an odd sensation, one I have not had before. But I just know I am doing the right thing and that everything will work out fine. I am not going to let any one get in my way, thats for sure!

2012... let's all have it.

I coudn't agree more. I wrote a list of thing I was going to achieve this year, I have ticked the major one all ready but there are heaps more to go at!

[fatdoc]

your presence on here never fails to inspire Golt

 

[SA Chris]

Nice one dude. You sometimes need to go out and search for true happiness in the wrong places before you realise it was in the back garden all along.

[fatdoc]

 

[Bubba]

You sometimes need to go out and search for true happiness in the wrong places before you realise it was in the back garden all along.

Just ask Fred & Rosemary West.

Nice one Golt

[erm, sam]

I'm psyched for you Golt. Hope all those cold early mornings make you as happy as they should do. (All farmers get up early in the cold, right?)

[lagerstarfish]

Today, after several days of inadequate and unsatisfactory efforts, I finally had my first proper post-operation bowel evacuation

 


 

[Fiend]

 

[GCW]

Hope it all goes well Mike.

Congrats Lagers. I bet that was a relief.

[Plattsy]

learning the skills needed to start my own business doing dry stone walling, fencing and other boundary work.

Loving the change Golt. I often dream about doing something similar except I don't have parents with a farm to fall back on.
Knowing a guy who does dry stone walling for a living. One, you're gonna get beast strong and two once you pick a stone, use it, constantly trying to find the perfect stone is gonna get old soon. 

[Eddies]

After a dissapointing start to the day at Roaches (which is currently covered in half and inch of ice) we headed to Wrights rock where I put to bed Simple Simon, a bit of a Wrights nemesis of mine.
Lots more good stuff done up there today my the team but this was my highlight.

[SA Chris]

once you pick a stone, use it,

Isn't that part of the dry stone walling thing, that once you pick up a stone you need to find a place for it?

[i_a_coops]

First real indoor bouldering session since operation 6 weeks ago. Fell off from a range of heights and my foot survived  Also all the fingerboarding seems to have had noticeable results, which bodes well for my dream of being the most ridiculously over-strong punter in the world. YYFY.

[Milford Cubicle]

Sweet BM session today, beat my crimp hang pb by a few seconds up to 12, doubled my pull up pb up to 12 and tripled my pb hang time on the 35's making it 32 seconds :D psyched to get 7a before I become 21 on the 23rd of april :D

x

[clm]

Sweet BM session today, beat my crimp hang pb by a few seconds up to 12, doubled my pull up pb up to 12 and tripled my pb hang time on the 35's making it 32 seconds :D psyched to get 7a before I become 21 on the 23rd of april :D

x

Not wanting to piss on your chips but I'm thnking you need to beast maker less and climb more. Those numbers are way enough for 7a (I'm sure I couldn't do most of those things), maybe need to work on the subtleties?

[leeroy]

Sweet BM session today, beat my crimp hang pb by a few seconds up to 12, doubled my pull up pb up to 12 and tripled my pb hang time on the 35's making it 32 seconds :D psyched to get 7a before I become 21 on the 23rd of april :D

x

Not wanting to piss on your chips but I'm thnking you need to beast maker less and climb more. Those numbers are way enough for 7a (I'm sure I couldn't do most of those things), maybe need to work on the subtleties?

ditto that. with that kind of strength it sounds like you could do 7a easily. things like gorilla warfare on the grit or lime stuff like toms original at stoney should fit. even without much technique (i'm not saying you that applies to you  ) these problems should be ok based purely on your strength levels. climb more and train a bit less and youll move through the grades 

[fuzzface93]

Wrong account

[Milford Cubicle]

I would always climb over training on a board but the only thing I can train on atm is a beastmaker, hitting peaks on sat and going to be climbing outside a lot more hopefully as I moved nearer to rock recently. My technique defo needs some improvement, but hopefully gonna get that by climbing outside more. Up until now I havn't been able to climb outside all to much, and not really much at all on grit so hopefully my grit tech'ers should improve pretty quickly  got the roaches an hours drive away so gonna try and find a 7a to project there me tinks:)

x

[leeroy]

Look at too drunk, good steep crimpy 7a or sleeping with the flowers (6c+ but some say 7a). Sidepull wall along the edge is a great 7a aswell, good luck 

[Eddies]

Keep driving past the Roaches and get yourself on Stall arete at Gibb Tor, and the Fin.

[Milford Cubicle]

Went to the roaches today, sent calcutta traverse that I dabbed on last time I was there, sent the 6a arete on Tetris boulder and tried too drunk, only got one move but is a proper kl problem and defiantly going to project it

x

[danm]

Did the Cave at RHS today, my first 7a, at the ripe old age of 42. After a year of worrying health problems, it's just the tonic I needed.

[Jim]

Nice one DanM!