Good conditions for bouldering?
patient
It’s difficult to describe the last few months, dislocation from previous life, removal of old context go some way to explaining my current state of mind and life. A sense of content adriftness, an alienation that is both sweet and consuming. The projects of house renovation, something I never took to seriously, stutter on, bit…
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cornwall, rain and reading
I’ve had a FB exchange with a climber, who has been visiting Cornwall and has been in touch for details and directions for the problems in the ‘Treen’ video. It felt strange, for it’s the first time since moving to France in March that I can honestly say I missed Cornwall. At the time I…
dendrology
As a distraction from endless work on the house I’ve switched attention to the 1,900 square metres of trees. Firstly I cut a path through the young trees, then I wandered up and down. I realised I was blind to the varieties and types of trees. I could recognise Oak and that was it,…
swim
A very cold bit of water, I liked the idea of swimming upstream, getting nowhere, yet moving. I’ve swum here a lot this summer and I wanted to try and film it and capture the tranquility of the place.
A wet Sunday in the Ariege
So you live in the Pyrenees, its raining, you have no training board, what do you do? Well it just so happens that I stumbled across a bit of steep limestone, sandwiched between Lidl’s and a Carrefour Express, easy parking and three minutes across a field. This has a kind of urban feel to it….
the rat and the EU exit, a rather poor analogy.
update…it turns out I was mistaken, my blog was based on prejudice, as was the decision made by millions in the UK. The animal that turned up in my toilet bowl was in fact an edible door mouse…. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edible_dormouse ? Orlu project rat business It’s been a strange few days. I’ve been party to…
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