Free cake and friendship

If you want to come help us, please do. Just get in touch by phone and everything else will follow. One of the most enjoyable aspects of our days out together is that we always manage to get what Ken Wilson calles "Last on Crag Points". This is not as boy scoutish as it sounds. It underlines the fact that we always get the most out of each day, and early retreats (because that is what they are) to the pub are not part of our culture. Why would anyone retreat from a wild and glorious place to an urban pub? My home number is 01663 750106 and my mobile is 07950 88 96 70

Week 1 results

In that time we (and it was nice to have friends along for the ride):


*finished Worlow Quarry
*rediscovered Nab End
*finished Standedge Quarry
*finished Rough Knarr (apart from putting the lower off bolts in)
*nearly finished Shooters Nab
*finished Ringing Roger
*went to Laddow in the rain
*realised what the cover shot was going to be
and discovered that somewhere we thought was going to be awful held a wonderful secret.

I'm unemployed, and I love it.

It's almost like being back in the '90s when I went to Pakistan on a whim. I woke up one morning, decided I was bored, and got on a plane: it was that easy!

I have a month off in order to finish the guide. I've told enough people that if I don't finish it this year I will have to shoot myself- so drastic action had to be taken.

I'm not employed by the BMC (for one month only) and it's very liberating...I can sit at home and look at the rain rather than being in a traffic jam on the way to work, looking at the rain. You can play too.