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#275 Re: calling of the lime
April 14, 2015, 06:37:55 pm
Bloody French ethics. Coming over here, improving standards in leaps and bounds and dragging British climbing out of the dark ages. What's wrong with only climbing cracks and chimneys and easy stuff?

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#276 Re: calling of the lime
April 14, 2015, 07:17:50 pm
Lo! Our wandering Jester returns from the south.
He has seen cobbles of gold, worshiped at the alter of towering waves and fought with nemeses.
These foreign lands have tried to lure him, glorious battles and fine feasts like a siren's call.
And yet he knows that down this road only emptiness lies.
There can be but one true path, and it lies within the cult of power. Let us reach into the dark and pull out The Crimp.
Prostrate yourself before the alter of pinches wall!
Kneel before the Gods of the Dale and pray for blessings of dryness!
There is a time. And the time is now.

Plus Kilnsey looks dry innit

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#277 Re: calling of the lime
April 14, 2015, 07:19:00 pm
Any way isn't revelations a solo now?  :-\

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#278 Re: calling of the lime
April 14, 2015, 10:13:10 pm
I seem to recall that Revelations was a solo 30 years ago.... ;-)

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#279 Re: calling of the lime
April 14, 2015, 10:38:09 pm
Lime called went on grit, fucked it

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#280 Re: calling of the lime
April 14, 2015, 11:19:59 pm
Never mind your golden fucking cobbles Barrows - what does the tortoise have to say on things?


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#281 Re: calling of the lime
April 14, 2015, 11:52:14 pm
Was at the plantation tonight.  Flippin mint, (ish).  Mint enough for a euro team to send deliverance and captain hook. and  another guy to wander up crescent arete, NTBTA archangel and white wand before sending Brad Pitt. 

The tortoise has not yet finished eating lettuce.

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#282 Re: calling of the lime
April 14, 2015, 11:57:58 pm
Who gives a fuck if it was good enough conditions to fall upwards at stanage. Real rocks are dry now, which means its limestone season.

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#283 Re: calling of the lime
April 16, 2015, 11:26:39 am
Decided that this was to be the first day of the lime for me and I awoke to the cooing of a wood pigeon, tis a sign we've chosen the right man for the job.

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#284 Re: calling of the lime
April 16, 2015, 11:52:32 am
Limed this morning at Rubicon and it was bonza. Good call.

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#285 Re: calling of the lime
April 16, 2015, 03:43:58 pm
It's like waking from a strange dream - I cant quite remember what the other stuff looked and felt like - or if it ever really happened at all

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#286 Re: calling of the lime
April 16, 2015, 03:48:19 pm
Perverts. The lot of you :)

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#287 Re: calling of the lime
April 16, 2015, 04:52:56 pm
I'm confused

I liked the old fashioned scheme where "Grit!" was called when boss connies came in and then "Lime!" was called when the midges and lack of friction made the scrittle difficult to enjoy.

Now, it seems, "Lime!" has been called just because the white stuff has become dry enough to climb, irrespective of what the scrittle strokers have to say about it.


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#288 Re: calling of the lime
April 16, 2015, 05:41:14 pm
Stop trying to drag it out and face the facts, it's over. Anyone who starts their scrittle stroking too early or clings on well into spring is only missing out on optimum lime connies. They'll be the ones moaning about how greasy the lime always is and pining for the return of the grit from mid august.
Why not give it a whirl now while it's cool and grippy, it's a lot easier and more enjoyable than it will be in 10 degrees time.

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#289 Re: calling of the lime
April 16, 2015, 06:20:39 pm
... irrespective of what the scrittle strokers have to say about it.

Just how it should be,

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#290 Re: calling of the lime
April 16, 2015, 06:24:21 pm
If Harris hasn't called it.

It's not called, even if it's dry.

It's the law....

Unlike my BBQ calling... Which is often bonkers.

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#291 Re: calling of the lime
April 16, 2015, 06:25:24 pm
So rubicon no longer flooded?

Ace.

I'll get there ASAP  :P


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#292 Re: calling of the lime
April 16, 2015, 06:56:52 pm
Its a bit muddy with a small pond under the later parts of the warm up trav but all fine for climbing. Fair bit of seepage on the routes bit to the left of Kudos wall.

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#293 Re: calling of the lime
April 16, 2015, 10:25:24 pm
Cheers.

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#294 Re: calling of the lime
April 17, 2015, 07:30:20 am

Why not give it a whirl now while it's cool and grippy, it's a lot easier and more enjoyable than it will be in 10 degrees time.

I'm worried that I might like it

I've got enough problems already; what with the drink, drugs, gambling, womanizing, fast cars, gun collecting and all that

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#295 Re: calling of the lime
April 17, 2015, 07:45:24 am
You got 99 problems but a crimp ain't one.

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#296 Re: calling of the lime
April 17, 2015, 08:55:14 am
Don't you mean big cars?

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#297 Re: calling of the lime
April 17, 2015, 09:45:18 am

You got 99 problems but his Xsara ain't one.

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#298 Re: calling of the lime
April 17, 2015, 09:55:25 am
If Harris hasn't called it.

I saw him this morning, but he got away before I could shove him into a suitably secure box

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#299 Re: calling of the lime
April 17, 2015, 10:50:24 am
Matchbox with celloptape?

 

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