For reasons best left obscure, my wife noticed this. Touching.

In a moment of unthinking idiocy a while ago I binned the bolts for all the Troll/Lizard hangers I have because they looked a bit old and rusty. I put in some stainless set screws. Then I realised this was a total cock because the shoulder has to land on the spit sleeve, not the plastic bit...

Every so often a decent shoot-the-breeze comes along. You can usually read at least one article if you don’t subscribe. https://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2024/01/john-gray-peter-thiel-discussion-post-modern-world?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

https://www.economist.com/business/2023/11/13/the-curse-of-the-badly-run-meeting I retired when I just couldn't take it any more.

Must be 40 years old...

Since finding a decent eatery seemed to be an issue recently, maybe we should have a series of relevant food reviews? We could start with the Marton. It’s been a bit rocky in the past decade, but since the middle of Covid there seems to be a definite intent to move towards fine dining. After a...

I have been trying to clear out stuff, and I think have to be realistic I am not using my dive gear going forward (I have never dived in the UK) and I don’t like stuff not being used. Apart from some painful process via Ebay, is there somewhere you can offload a bunch of stuff in one go? Some...

https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjP4M-wlP_7AhWDjaQKHY8NBhMQwqsBegQICBAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D8zIf0XvoL9Y&usg=AOvVaw3BaPmoW7sJzx3Yy-pciF_8

For those who have interest in these things, the new rain radar presentation is a dramatic improvement on the old one. Apart from being much easier to use (just swipe the timeline), it also does a prediction for days ahead. Effectively it gives you continuous surface maps from their model...

In a spirit of light curiosity do people go down this mine? Is it a worthwhile experience? I was looking at the shaft from my sister-in-laws back garden yesterday, so it could rank as summat to do when all else fails, as it often does.

I am going to skip these ladders shortly unless someone wants them. A 5m and 10m 3mm with 12” spacing. Although visibly undamaged they are decades old and I don’t 100% trust galvanised wire over time. I can leave somewhere in Dales. I am def not saying you can hang your life on them but maybe...

Just so you know who is running this show?.. ?The NLAWs have been so effective that Boris Johnson and Volodymyr Zelensky have been joking about them. Ukrainians pronounce them ?N-love? rather than ?N-law?. According to reports over the weekend, the Ukrainian president sang ?All you need is...

Item of no doubt long-cherished rigging gear found in County. PM me.

If you haven?t seen this on Netflix, I?d give it a go. Proper hard and a rather different perspective.

I walked down and got my booster yesterday from our ever-keen GP. Can?t fault them for being on the job over the last year or so, first-class effort on all fronts. But it seems the message isn?t out there on jabs. Here?s one chap from ICU who should be put on TV in the middle of Strictly...

Does anyone know if this entrance is open and in a useable condition?

Yesterday was somewhat chastened to find that my doubled 30m rope did not actually reach the ledge on the big pitch in Swinsto, in contrast to many previous trips. Neither did the other one. I assumed I had made a cock of things, age probably. Both came off a recent 200m drum that measured at...

This guy actually won. Tiger Patel? It's a whole new vista. The second vid is a real goer too - make sure you get at least half way through. https://twitter.com/HannahAlOthman/status/1389964348102225924

Forget all that mineshaft nonsense, here is the genuine article to get your teeth into. "Stowaway" on Netflix https://www.imdb.com/video/vi1721483289?playlistId=tt9203694&ref_=tt_pr_ov_vi OK, the film is maybe a bit droopy, but the SRT is awesome. Premise. You got a spaceship which consists...