rginns blog

Well we are now officially homeless. Moving was a total arse and seemed never ending. I banked on a day and a half, and in the event it took 3 days to clear the house and the garden. Still, eventually it was done, and we're now at a temporary address until the new house completes, probably sometime in April. I went to the old house to take the final gas reading, and it was really weird being in the house with someone elses stuff in it. Things have been altogether perturbing lately, hopefully they'll settle down soon. I'm not too keen on being in limbo. Anyway, to alleviate the stress of moving, I went up to West View with the G-man and El Beardo, and it appears that 3 days of shifting crap does nothing for your climbing technique. So I was generally out of sorts and wonderful company all round. There was plenty of crush from the Lanky one as there was from El Beardo, whilst I mostly failed on everything V5 and above, and sat around a lot. However, as a wise man once said, i

Today I made a decision to postpone the planned Font trip in May. It looks like we won't be moving into the new house until April at the earliest, and as I'm working in Germany for a week already in May, it's not looking feasible. However, the house we're buying has a nice sized garage with at least 8 ft clearance. plenty of room for a woody. Can't wait to build it...!

So I had a pass out yesterday and chose to head over to Preston. I haven't been indoors for a long time, looking back at the blog it appears the last time was at Rochdale on November 29th. Ah well, events seem to have taken a front seat recently. Gareth was free and decided to put in an appearance, but the bearded one was enjoying some Italian based birthday food avec the family so couldn't make it. I had forgotten my card, so it took about ten minutes before I got in. This is after having parked dodgily the wrong way down a one way street. West View seems to be a victim of it's own success... I wasn't too pleased at the hike in rates, I'd forgotten that it had gone up to £6. This now puts it on a par with most of the other walls in the area. The price had always been a decider for me over where to go if there was indecision, in spite of it being a bit further to travel. To be fair, the price has been static for some time. As expected from the state of the carpark,