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    Water leak on Sheffield driveway - plumber beta?

    My colleague had a similar experience last weekend. Called Severn Trent (he lives in Nottingham) who said that they’d fix it the next day but because it was over a metre inside his property he’d have to pay. Out of frustration and curiosity he dug down to the pipe himself and found the hole. He...
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    Re: climbing-goes-mainstream weirdness

    It makes them grippy if it’s got pine resin in it, which most liquid chalk does.
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    Best of 2024

    Anyone who changed their username seems to have gone back to what they originally had when they joined up. I guess whatever process displayed the new names instead of the original was specific to the previous forum software.
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    RIP

    Or if you’re looking at it on a mobile, press where it says “31 minutes ago” or similar rather than the thread title. A weird shortcoming of the new interface is that it always shows the profile picture of the person who started the thread rather than that of the last person to comment. I keep...
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    Aims for 2025

    Every year I make a second post in this thread with a goal that was one of the first I came up with but that slipped my mind when I first posted. This year is no exception. Clean some Peak moorland grit routes, let’s say 5. It’s satisfying, it’s good for getting/ staying fit for moorland...
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    Aims for 2025

    My big project this year has nothing to do with climbing and money’s going to be tight in general so I won’t be going on any foreign trips or anything. Every year I foresee bad things happening with my housebound parents’ health and while a major event for either of them has yet to materialise...
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    Best of 2024

    Yes yes, greatest thread of the year. Looking forward to reading through everyone’s posts later- never fails to get the psyche flowing! Best trad routes Jackabu, Brimham “You should lead that Mike” yells Deacon over the edge. “The gear’s good and the top’s absolutely piss”. The sum total of...
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    Aims for 2024

    Nice work and cheers for posting to everyone who’s done so 😁 I had an unbalanced year climbing-wise. We bought a house in December last year which was a big (positive) upheaval and around the same time I accepted an invitation to the Costa Blanca in late March which would mean being there on...
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    Poetry about Climbing - Anyone know of anything?

    There’s a bloke called Mark Goodwin who’s had poems published in various guidebooks.
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    UKB Freecycle

    Yeah, didn’t explain that very well. Skimmed keeping some solder on the tip under “tin everything”. I was referring to the universal beginner error of holding the tip to the part(s) you’re soldering and putting the solder on the iron directly- if the parts haven’t heated up enough it’ll melt...
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    UKB Freecycle

    I’ll WhatsApp you Sam :thumbsup: The project is cabling up my basement studio and doing some repairs/ improvements on my mixing desk. There is a shit ton of work to do which will on one hand keep me busy til spring but on the other hand if I don’t get it all done by spring it’ll be another...
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    UKB Freecycle

    Anyone want/ need to get into soldering? Electronic, not plumbing soldering.I just upgraded all my kit ahead of a big project so I have lots of stuff to get rid of. None of it’s great and it’s almost all used but if you’re starting or only need to do small jobs (although I did pretty big jobs...
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    RIP

    His autobiography, Q, is really interesting. It’s amazing how hard he worked as an arranger in the 60s, at one point he describes coming up with a system to keep cold water running across his wrists as he wrote out charts by hand all night without falling asleep… One of those behind-the-scenes...
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    RIP

    Quincy Jones
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    RIP

    Austin’s associated most with Yorkshire but as a Peak climber I first became aware of him when looking up the development of Bamford Edge. On the 4th of April 1957 he made the first ascents of Neb Buttress, Undercut Crack, Wrinkled Wall, Möglichkeit and Dead Mouse Crack. A decent day out today...
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    Remains of Sandy Irvine found on Everest

    Feels weird that Jimmy Chin’s so prominently in the picture.
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    RIP

    This Instagram post seems to be the only place it’s been reported and, despite its LDNClimber vibe it is a genuine account.
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    RIP

    John Cleare
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    Topic split: What are the rules at High Tor?

    Further up the thread I said I didn’t consider myself qualified to have an opinion on this but having climbed on High Tor quite a bit over the past thirteen years I easily pass the established criteria. Leave ‘em out.
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    Topic split: What are the rules at High Tor?

    Is this still true? Feels like it is.
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