Rich Rule

Cheese. I always tell my missus, "Cheese, a moment on the lips a lifetime on the hips!" Not a big fan of it myself. As for sarnies, peanut butter, marmite and banana is surprisingly nice. One of my favourite main meals that is very tasty and quick to make it Thai Krapow Moo sap. Stick some rice on, I use a rice cooker as we eat rice multiple times a week. Chop a couple of cloves of garlic and about 6 red chillis. 400g of pork mince (Alternative if feeling rich, slice some half decent beef steak about 3-4 mm and fry the same) Cook the pork mince or steak till is is about done and remove from pan. Reheat some oil and fry the garlic and chilli until the garlic turns golden. Throw in the meat and juice, mix well. Add 1 tsp soy sauce, 1 tsp fish sauce, 3 tsp oyster sauce and mixed well Add some holy basil leaves or fresh basil and cook for another couple of minutes. Serve with rice and a fried egg. Bangkok Street food in the house.

Hang a heavy weight from the belly of the chain. It will hold the chain in position to be able to sharpen and easy enough to move it around.

Didn’t seem to harm QPR in the 80’s.

I have always found the best form of warm up is sport specific. So I just climb and take it easy for the first bit. Once a throw line and line are installed you have generally carted a load of stuff to the tree, all potentially part of a warm up. If I have a niggle, either from work or hobbies, I might stretch a bit. When the back hurts I bust out a foam roller when I get home. I have had a hand injury the last year so have been doing a fair bit of stretching for the rehab but as a general rule I tend not to stretch before a climb.

Hi Paul, I think it will be interesting to see what kind of spin gets put on the results. As far as I can see the majority of climbers I know and see on various forms of internet, haven’t adopted the working practices of the new guidelines. If the numbers of incidents reduce, what will they put it down to?

I had an Audi that was chip tuned. It had extra HP and torque but had much better fuel consumption. Altogether a better package IME. Drove lovely with the upgrade.

Angry Chris (the seller) is based in the town I grew up.

Most definitely.

Do you have an FAC?

Hi Tim. 👋🏻

One from today.

You and Stubby for the win. Both correct predictions. Missed the fight as I was driving over the mountains and remembered. Put on talkSport and Fury was singing LOL

Could it be Pine Blister Rust? It hammers the SP here in Norway. Does the outside of the bark go black and dusty?

@Steve Bullman Test. cheers.

Who’s been doing that Chris?

What is your thoughts on the matter? Are you all for preservation of ivy or removal?

Something like that. 🤪 Strangest day of my life, so far.

Speaking from experience. I used to contract to a firm that managed the gardens and open spaces of a museum in South London. They also had a nature area, completely left alone apart from major deadwood over the footpaths. They got an Ecologist in quite a few years ago to plan and manage works on the nature area. We heard he was a friend of the trustees, but I am not 100% on that. His recommendation was to leave all IVY for habitat. Which we did. The problem with this is is engulfed the place and shaded out lots of the areas under the trees. It (and more importantly IMO ) cover over lots of unions and defects in the trees and for a few years these defects went unnoticed until a number of big failures. Stems failing and trees going over into the neighbouring properties and this led to uncovering further urgent work that needed to be done. Of course the Ecologist had recommended the use of heavy machinery to be non. SO we were left with large trees failing onto properties in South London. We had to try and make safe without heavy machinery. The whole thing was a pain in the rear end. After a number of very costly claims I do believe (IIRC) they had a different outlook toward the Ecological consultant.

Jeezus must have been an old school raver!

No. Job and knock is going home when you finish the job not working to a set number of hours. In other words you graft hard to finish the day a bit early and then have the rest of the day off.

If you have tennis elbow related pain. BUy yourself a Theraband flexbar and look up the exercise called ‘the Tyler Twist’ on YouTube. To fix the problem is much better than masking the problem with Cortisone. Although it does provide relief.

Thanks. Just sent you a PM.

Man I feel your pain. April 23rd 2021 I clipped my finger with a circular saw. Actually clipped is an understatement. I severed nerves from 4 fingers and did 5 tendons. Ended up in Aand E and had 4.5 hours micro surgery and over 200 stitches to repair. The first thing the surgeon did was explain I would probably never climb again. I had scored the bones and they were really concerned the tendons would fuse to the bone and my finger would be locked in position. I was doing physio every hour I was awake to prevent it happening. This was 3 days after surgery. Fingers are still numb and the cold is a bitch but I have been back work a while now, usually 3 days a week. But full time back climbing in May. I am back doing a bit of Muay Thai and BJJ. I wish you well in you’re recovery, there is hope yet. Good luck. As they say, pictures or it didn’t happen…. Trust me this happened in a seconds lapse of concentration. The last picture is how it looked this morning. It is still very stiff in the mornings but warms up ok. It depends on how much work I have done the previous days. IMG_4909.MOV

I think the whole point in stuff tethers was to avoided the flop. It might work for you but it would be like using the RW Mark 1 with that coloured bit of cord it came with.