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No doubt Joshua is being paid well to give a show, but it will be a huge embarrassment for him to even let it go beyond the first minute of round 1

Morning, sorry to hear about your mate Stubby. i went back to work yesterday after 2 weeks of basically living and sleeping on the couch , it didn’t take long before I seized up and twanged something in the back of my leg , 😂. Went to bed at 8pm, started my baby night shift at 4am, fed and she went back to sleep at 5am. Luckily my nephews out grounding today and shifting the timber so I’ll point at stuff when I go in at 9am.

It shouldn't . Big cahoonas to Jake Paul for going in there . I don't particularly like the bloke but he has trained his nuts off for this . His " fight " against an old Mike Tyson was a joke .

This is to true.. I like to rock climb to a reasonable level.. tree works limits this more than I care for. For me the out of climbing is in progress, surveying/Consultancy being the option which im tryin to increase.. or sack it all off and train as a sparkie.

Yeah, it keeps me motivated when I’m feeling the pain. I quite fancy this bike ride too, it goes straight past my house.

Morning all, Rain due by 11. Quick raid on a small horse chestnut then back home. Start rebuilding the older Echo 2511 if parts have arrived. Stay dry if you can.

I’ve got 4 years till my youngest is 18 and we can dump him LOL. Overlanding sounds like a nice thing to plan for.

I stagger my jobs so that I don’t climb every day, I tend to choose the enjoyable ones and get another climber in to do the ugly, ivy covered monstrosities over swimming pools. I work alone quite a bit too, so I am climber and groundy, I just price and pace the job out better. Eating well and keeping active outside of work is essential for me, I had back issues when I first moved out here due to inactivity, the harder I train the less issues I seem to have. I’ll keep climbing until the kids leave home then look at winding up, buy an over lander and just set off.

Surely this won’t last a single round?

I know of two maybe three climbers still climbing in there 70s but its a hard demanding job ,everyone will be different. Think alot of it is down to how you look after yourself.

If you know it’s wrong, go and get yourself tooled up then, it’s not hard to find a gun if you want one. You can walk around in blissful harmony knowing that you won’t be ‘scared, just prepared’ in whatever situation you find yourself in, imagine how safe you will feel whilst purchasing your Elderflower cordial down at Waitrose. If you do get pulled, you will face a 5 year stretch, but you could just argue your individual rights override the law, that degree will certainly come in handy.

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51 and still climbing most days. A mixture of contract climbing for others and my own work. Embrace innovation and crack on. Keep fit with my hobbies. the thing as I am realising as I get older is the work I do to pay for my hobbies is restricting my ability to do the said hobbies. No idea what I will do after this is up. Im kind of stuck in a rut as I live in Norway and language difficulties limit opportunities. Plus I’d be bored shitless not climbing or doing tree work.

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@AHPP any truth in the rumours the Palestine Solidarity Activist hunger strikers use pictures of your cooking to keep them motivated to abstain?

Good morning Sad to hear Stubby. Hope you'll get to meet old friends and have a good gas-bag. Last day of this site. Choices are Thornton Heath or Slough both have issues.... Planning a weekend of cutting and splitting. Feels like I haven't started my racing saw in months. Going Cold Turkey. Keep dry and safe.

Good stuff Svat, never surrender! @topchippyles it’s a question that I ask myself more and more. I’m training a young climber atm and he’s taking huge leaps (not literally) week on week. So for 85% of the stuff we do he’s as quick as me or near enough, this leaves me on the ground, running the ropes and feeding the chipper and guess what? It’s harder work than climbing especially on my rather fragile back, but he loves climbing and every day he’s in the harness and up the trees he’s happy, who could deny him that? But to get back to your question, what’s next for me? In an ideal world I’d just hire another fit young person, let them do the grunt work and just run the loader and grinder. Employing another body is too much of a risk though. I’ll just carry on, hopefully stay working (in treework) till retirement, mechanise as much as possible, try and get the work that suits us best, head down to the finish line!

Morning troops . Its a little bit very rainy here . Funeral this morning ( again ) Old mate , same age as me . 🙁

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Morning all. End of the week for us today, going out tomorrow for the xmas lunch. Dismantles and hopefully no rain until later. Have a good one folks.

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Up and away to do my thing down south. Then drop chipper off at HQ. Seeing folk in Cumbria tomorrow and then done for the period! Best get thinking about Xmas then! Chaps, Unease.