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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 singletound?

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.

Kids eh, eldest had found an old mobile phone and had it in his room playing games. 4:30 alarm going off on it wakes him up so he comes and wakes me up! I was rather abrupt as he knows he shouldn't have such things, Mrs then has a go at me so downstairs to get a cup of tea for me. Washing machine on, log on the fire and cup of tea in hand.

Well I think I can agree that the problem wasn't the gun but the person behind it rattling off the shots. Why cant we all just live in peace and harmony ☮️ I feel comfortable with gun laws in the UK but as mentioned it's the law abiding citizens that follow the rules. The drug dealers and nutters don't follow the rules and have the weapons, that why I have switched from crack to paracetamol as the Mavis at Morrisons is less likely to be tooled up.

What a crock of juvenile shit. The big issue is the police failed to stop yet another Islamist terrorist on their radar. You obviously have very little or zero knowledge or experience of firearms or any form of shooting. Im away this weekend to shoot greys with a 308 because 1 rifle is enough apparently eh SP/AT. PS you don’t kill a “Target” 😞

The wrong uns already are. They only need go to the kitchen for a knife. That's already a greater force multiplier than the majority of people carry. Good people are already outgunned. If someone put a kitchen knife against your kidney at a cashpoint, you'd pay him. I would anyway. We're not all as hard as Major Fifth. And why should anyone else's choice (or apathy) affect my rights? Remember. I'm championing the rights of individuals. I'm an individual. So are you. Are you really happy to be told like a child what you can't do when you damn well know it's wrong?