rginns blog

So, I've got a couple of meetings in the Paris area this week, and it just so happens that todays meeting ended early so I was able to head round the peripherique and down to Fontainebleau. I suppose I had actually engineered it really, but it is true that I do have to be in Paris for work, and as I'm in the area, well, why not make the most of it? I got to Franchard Isatis by about 3 pm and the weather was nice and warm. I thought it would be too warm, but luckily it wasn't, and much of Isatis is in the shade anyway. I warmed up on a couple of easy problems, Orange I think and then set to with the reds and blue circuits. It's been over a year since I've been to font, but I love this place. It's very calming to be back in the forest again even if I did only have half a day. I got a few of the red and blue problems done, and was surprised to note that even on a Wednesday afternoon it was still pretty busy. Not as busy as it would have been at Easter, but neverthe

Well today I turn 30. Christ it's all down hill from here... Whenever you reach a milestone inevitably it leads you to think about acheivements and where you are at that given point. My one score and ten has not meant I've climbed 7a yet, nor have I onsighted E1, but I have my health, a good job, a nice house and I'm generally happy. Not only that, but the summer is coming, and I can't wait, my favourite time of the year. Anyway, I digress. Yesterday was also a good day. I had unexpectedly found myself free for a couple of hours before a christening and so decided to head over to Cadshaw, G-man was psyched for some eliminate quarry shizzle adn I haven't been on Brian Jacques for a few weeks. Shortly before I left it started raining, so a last minute change of plan meant we met at Wilton 1 -it was, however tanking it down, and given the friability of the Snakey B wall and the fact that Gareth keeps pulling the bloody wall down anyway meant that climbing was not a via