[masonwoods101]

Climbed infinite suspense this morning for my first straight up 7c+ boulder after a month of being stuck on my garage woody! Well chuffed!!

[a dense loner]

You're never stuck on your garage woodie nice one

[masonwoods101]

Think i should be stuck on it more... No wait... Scrap that

[lagerstarfish]

on the face of it, this weekend was going to be a bit meh....

taking kids to several parties, dance rehearsals and sitting through a dance show

rain forecast on Saturday

40th birthday party for a friend of Mrs Starfish - mostly made up of Brexiteering Mosboroughites, which usually means that I end up drinking a lot as a coping strategy

anyway....

the little lad went with someone else's parent to his party on Saturday, which freed up some time for me - similarly, Mrs Starfish managed a run while middle child was at a party (and if Mrs Starfish is happy, then I am happy). I used the time to work on the van (Grumpycrumpy's old van) and fixed the back door handle and opening mechanism as well as the lock and the central locking switch. I also fitted the rear seat/bed with the willing help of the lad after he got back; so the van now has sleeping capacity. no money was spent - just used shit from my shit collection. proper BA Baracus moments.

the 40th party went well - good snacks included homemade cheese straws and sausage rolls - I drank a lot of Stella and danced with a lot of interesting women (including Mrs Starfish). No Brexit supporting Mosborough men were on the dance floor.

massive hangover this morning- Mrs Starfish had to drive us back from Halfway in the morning

my Dad's Taxi shift finished unexpectedly early today and Mrs Starfish pointed out that I had time to go climbing. I had not expected to have this opportunity, which contributed to my unconstrained alcohol consumption last night. My Bad Ankle was very bad due to dancing a lot, but I headed out to do some Easy Mileage. Burb N parking was rammed, so I headed to the plantation (got my Stand up fo' Stanage sticker, so might as well use it, eh?). threw up on the way up the hill, seemed to be moving OK on the rock, knocked off a few 6s and even a couple of 7s, felt Good, stopped at the parking for Apparent North and walked over to Higgar East - threw up again - climbed OK. knocked off a few things in reasonable style at burb W and N before getting home... in the van that I had been fixing up the day before

even the dance show (even the bits without middle child) was pretty good

now looking forward to tomorrow night - teachers are on strike Tuesday and I'm not at work that day, so I can take the kids to sleep out on the newly fitted bed in the van

PSYCHED!   

*edit* drinking to excess is not big or clever

[tomtom]

Great tale Lagers

A true hustlers performance - drag your hungover carcass out of bed and perform like a hero.

[petejh]

Nice Lagers

[lagerstarfish]

they'd need a bigger SWAT team to take me down

#bulletproofblubber

anyway - camping out in the van was ace - the kids loved it - then we went fishing this morning at Barlow as soon as they woke up - everyone caught lots

[shark]

Just done a new trad route at High Tor 

Now in brambles belaying Bonjoy

[Wood FT]

Just done a new trad route at High Tor 

Now in brambles belaying Bonjoy

nice one, where's it go?

[tomtom]

Just done a new trad route at High Tor 

Now in brambles belaying Bonjoy

nice one, where's it go?

Is this going to be another onnishambles like the eatswood 'new' problems?

[shark]

Just done a new trad route at High Tor 

Now in brambles belaying Bonjoy

nice one, where's it go?

Starts as for Happy Hour / Johnny Brown then heads diagonally to the overhang in Original Route to belay then the second pitch swings around the arete to the Tales thread then traverses horizontally right to finish past the last bolt on Bastille.

I had the idea BITD and in the mid 80's dragged Seb out in the middle of winter. I remember there was snow on the ground and I rubbed my hands in it to get hot aches to warm up!. We started from the Lyme Cryme belay and I led a first pitch from there at about E2/3 but thought it was a bit scrappy and so scotched doing the second pitch. It occurred to me more recently that starting up HH/JB would make it a better and more balanced route.

[Luke Owens]

Did my first 7c at the Bren the other eve! Psyched!

[Duma]

Nice one!

Some quality release of tension at the chains there!

[Luke Owens]

Nice one!

Some quality release of tension at the chains there!

Cheers guys!

Haha, I've been trying it on and off for 3 years and it started to be a bit of a mental battle, lots of adrenaline contributed to the outburst!

[Sasquatch]

I've got my mojo back for climbing.   

I went for a hike yesterday with a couple of friends, not really thinking or looking at climbing to an area we had looked at many many years ago and found the single best untouched boulder I've ever seen.  Bullet granite, great features, 12-15 lines, mostly decent landings, aesthetic location, etc...  Looks like a good variety of difficulties, and moderate height to fairly highball...

Can't wait to get back out there to start cleaning and sending.  I'll post up some pics after we get some cleaning done....

[Monolith]

Absolutely elated that my RIBA grant application to pursue Scotch Whisky distillery architecture was accepted. Offered the full 2k which I'm psyched about! The plan is to have a few industry cohorts fund an exhibition of the output if possible.

https://www.architecture.com/RIBA/Becomeanarchitect/Fundingyoureducation/Researchfunding/GordonRickettsMemorialFund.aspx

[Fultonius]

Nice one. This place needs some good news!

[Johnny Brown]

Absolutely elated that my RIBA grant application to pursue Scotch Whisky distillery architecture was accepted. Offered the full 2k which I'm psyched about! The plan is to have a few industry cohorts fund an exhibition of the output if possible.

https://www.architecture.com/RIBA/Becomeanarchitect/Fundingyoureducation/Researchfunding/GordonRickettsMemorialFund.aspx

Nice one Lid! Need any photography?

[Monolith]

Absolutely elated that my RIBA grant application to pursue Scotch Whisky distillery architecture was accepted. Offered the full 2k which I'm psyched about! The plan is to have a few industry cohorts fund an exhibition of the output if possible.

https://www.architecture.com/RIBA/Becomeanarchitect/Fundingyoureducation/Researchfunding/GordonRickettsMemorialFund.aspx

Nice one Lid! Need any photography?

Cheers guys. Adam, I've actually budgeted for a DSLR but since I have about 8% knowledge of how to use a camera to any good effect, you might like to come along for the ride eh? It'll be staged over several trips and I'll start to get a schedule and plan together soon now that I've been able to publicly announce the award.

Especially pleased since my back is trashed and it'll offer a nice distraction from not being able to climb.

[andy popp]

Nice one Tom!

[Nibile]

Great news brother. Very proud of you.

[a dense loner]

Couldn't find anywhere to put this in diet, training, injuries but was doing one arm hangs in the garage before with a butterfly flying around me. Very surreal

[lagerstarfish]

a message from Muhammad Ali?

you are special

[Falling Down]

Absolutely elated that my RIBA grant application to pursue Scotch Whisky distillery architecture was accepted. Offered the full 2k which I'm psyched about! The plan is to have a few industry cohorts fund an exhibition of the output if possible.

https://www.architecture.com/RIBA/Becomeanarchitect/Fundingyoureducation/Researchfunding/GordonRickettsMemorialFund.aspx

Nice work Tom - congratulations!

[Oldmanmatt]

After two years without even a sniff of a road trip, we're now sat in the Dordogne for the next six days (in a gite, with pool), after a couple days in Font and a week on an island in the Vendee (Noirmoutier) to follow.
Already spent the entire budget, but bank agreed to extend overdraft too!
Happy days!





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