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Jumping Jesus on a blue bendy bicycle I've never been so scared in all my days.
Sunday, I'm leading a traditional climb graded Very Severe. A combination of a difficult start and some loose rock means I'm pumped and shitting it, lobbing loads of (unnecessary) protection into the rock. Anyway, I'm flapping a bit, thinking of the fall, thinking about crumbly rock and shit protection.. I'm about 10 metres from the finish point - which is a small tree/shrub growing straight out of the cliff. ...

The BP machine is mine for a week.
And already it's pissed me off ;

>No batteries supplied
>Instructions for another model
>Cuff that only just squeezes over my guns
>Out of date calibration

Christ on a bike that lot alone would send my blood pressure through the roof.

Hey ho, lets see what we see.

WTF is this? It’s not even half nine of a Thursday morning & the car park at Morrison’s is virtually full. And there’s all manner of nobbers slowly tooling about & taking half a dozen attempts at reversing in. Ah-could it be pension day? It would fit-it’s all older people. I’ve bagged my bit & sauntered in. I’m on orders not to return home for a couple of hours, & I’m deliberately a bit peckish so now seems like a good time to check out the Morrison’s Café for breakfast. Oh God no-I’ve ...

Looking back though some old photos recently, it made me think hard about the label 'biker' and what it means to me, and I decided that although there are no photos of me bungee'd to my dad as he rode me round the garden on his BSA, I know it happened, and wonder if that experience planted the first seed of my biker path. My dad got rid of the bike when I was three and a half and never rode another one until I was seventeen, so is it learned behaviour or is it deeper than that? Are some people just ...

That's my problem I like a drink of an evening.
My current alcohol intake for 1 week is;

1 bottle whisky
2 bottle of wine
12 bottles of Hobgoblin

That probably accounts for loads of sugar, loads of calories and loads of units

So I reckon a bit of cutting down is in order, not quitting it all together, that'd be daft. So from Monday I'm limiting my weekly booze shop to;

1 bottle whisky
4 bottles of hobgoblin ...