[Fiend]

Pretty mint on the grit recently.

[Eddies]

Has anyone seen Stone recently? I've not seen him out on the lime yet this year!!!

[nai]

Haven't seen him but he was after a partner for Rubicon via the Facebook group last week.

[lagerstarfish]

I wondered what "Stone upon the White Rock" meant in The Book of Portents

[tomtom]

So who's doing the calling this year?

The grit was feeling decidedly summer like at times yesterday eve.... Has anyone seen a three headed crow flying backwards with a tortoise in one beak recently?

It feels like it's getting towards the time....

[gcarmichael]

 

Definitely time for the lime in my eyes! Was 14 degrees at Tremeirchion on Friday!

[tomtom]

An extensive research program involving having to SCROLL BACK ANOTHER F*CKIGN PAGE! Revealed that Barrows is the lime caller. Unless there has been a coup d'tortoise in the last twelve months.

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

Anyway - this shows the calling was on the 14th April last year... are we there yet oh great Barrows of the Lime calling almighty righteous worthiness?

[nai]

Not sure if he's gone yet but he's either in or off to Australia so I'd imagine the state of Peak Lime is of little concern to him.
Haydn might be the man this year?
Haven't been out too much but from connies reports it doesn't sound like we're there yet.  Don't we go through this every year when someone has a warm day in the grit?  The end of one doesn't necessarily mean the other starts by default

[tomtom]

Not sure if he's gone yet but he's either in or off to Australia so I'd imagine the state of Peak Lime is of little concern to him.
Haydn might be the man this year?
Haven't been out too much but from connies reports it doesn't sound like we're there yet.  Don't we go through this every year when someone has a warm day in the grit?  The end of one doesn't necessarily mean the other starts by default

Eh?? Barrows has f*cked off to Australia without leaving a deputy - or passing on the baton to someone else... this is nearly as big a f*ck up as when the Dobbinator had responsibility and we ended up with the Facebook debacle..

But Haydn is a good shout. Seconded.

[nai]

The baton doesn't get passed on, it gets left in a random peak location and awaits the caller. Many pass it without even noticing it's there, many see it but aren't drawn to it.
Kids pick it up and are told "put that down, it's dangerous". It is.
But eventually the right man, or woman, spends so long in the dirt and dust that they learn what it is. Maybe they've seen it a hundred times before and ignored it but one day it dawns on them what it is and away they go.
Kind of begs the question, how the fuck did Dobbin get hold of it though?

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[tomtom]

Kind of begs the question, how the fuck did Dobbin get hold of it though?

Maybe it was in the chalkbag he found at the Tor...

[haydn jones]

Powerband is still wet. The lime ain't  being called yet

[abarro81]

I already abdicated for this year ages ago.. Off to Australia tomorrow, screw you raven tor!

[shark]

Powerband is still wet. The lime ain't  being called yet

Fair enough - it's your call

[Wood FT]

Hayden is too keen though, a good thing to be but not a good attribute for a caller

[tomtom]

Hayden is too keen though, a good thing to be but not a good attribute for a caller

Why not? Anyway at least he's around

[lagerstarfish]

Hayden is too keen though, a good thing to be but not a good attribute for a caller

at least we'd have a good laugh at him getting egg on his balls

[nai]

By extension does that mean that JB is not, and has never been, keen?

[lagerstarfish]

Jibé?

be interesting to have a foreigner holding the stick

[Johnny Brown]

This whole thing is a farce. If I could think of someone dead who cared, I'd say they'd be turning in their grave. Does Harris still climb? He's probably squirming on the mats at the schoolroom. If you're embarrassed for an embarrassment does it double up or cancel out?

[Stu Littlefair]

Ever noticed how JB gets increasingly grumpy as the grit season winds down? I say we don't need a lime caller; lets just wait until JB punches an orphan in the teeth and start the season on that day.


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[shark]

I believe in Hayden. The lime baton is in good hands. Your glory days and oneness with the grit have passed several seasons ago. Admit it - after this winters disastrous call you need to let go of the grit baton and graciously pass it to Mark Rankine

[Wood FT]

By extension does that mean that JB is not, and has never been, keen?

JB is keen but he is not Hayden keen, no sureebob

[Wood FT]

This whole thing is a farce. If I could think of someone dead who cared, I'd say they'd be turning in their grave. Does Harris still climb? He's probably squirming on the mats at the schoolroom. If you're embarrassed for an embarrassment does it double up or cancel out?

Get off this thread scrittler!

[andy_e]

The annual limestone call debacle. No wonder this country isn't top of the climbing game any more.