So the TDF was passing within a few miles from where I live. Lavelanet is probably the least inspiring town in the region, drab and run down, seemingly more so in the drizzle waiting for the cyclists to pass. After an hour a cavalcade of motorised advertising appeared, hyper cheerful people harnessed to garish trash…
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 It’s been a strange few days. I’ve been party to the UK voting to…
projects and limited vision
It feels sometimes as if it’s possible to live in multiple places, virtual, real, here and there, close and distant, the idea of being grounded or living in the moment seems sometimes fanciful, fleeting at best. Sometimes I don’t know where I live. Sometimes I wake from a doze in the afternoon and it takes…
Midi Pyrenees
I’ve been thinking about scale and motivation this last few days. I’ve made four drives across the mountains to go to Targasonne, crossing the Col du Puymoren at 1920m to drop down to the Targasonne at 1500m, the temps in the evening are lovely, nice and cool, but with sunshine and low humidity. What a…
Ariege
It’s been a period of change, flux and transition. I’ve sold my house in Marazion and moved to France, with a fair bit of drifting and driving in between. It’s very strange to have moved, it’s not something I have done much of, now I find myself in the Pyrennes and questioning a little as…
tree
Bouron Marlotte, Fontainebleau. Icy evening, moon, mist and trees. The next morning I watched as two forestry workers cut down a large diseased tree. The chain saw buzzed and sawed cuts around the tree base, one cut and another watched, metal wedges driven in to the cut. I looked at the top branches waiting to…
in between the rain
Amazingly it was dry today! I nearly missed it, such has been the unrelenting regularity of shit weather. Filmed a couple of classics, a lot else was covered in damp glowing wet lichen. I also saw for the first time the damage on the classic arete boulder. It does look like it was intentional. I…
Australia boulder 3D laser scan video
When I first saw the results of the scanning I was quite unprepared for what I saw. It is quite hard to describe, but I can say it was not like looking at a conventional digital image. What I had previously always seen from my perspective as a climber, I could now see from one…
Xmas wishes
Happy xmas to those celebrating and to all others; it will be over soon.
Treen, new problems
… and we came to a landscape bare of light and life, fields and paths of mud, earth and animal…two years later I leave the same landscape… of granite, wind and sea. I came across these boulders two years ago on a Xmas day walk. It’s taken a while to get back and climb three…
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