Sheffield

Hurrah, off to Sheffield this evening for the weekend for 2 days of climbing with the guys. Have i Climbed enough lately? I'm not sure but it will be great none the less. One thing I'd like to try is Gorilla warfare as I last tried it 2 years ago and would like to see how I have improved.

The wedding plans are moving at pace, I finally got my baptism certificate from the UK so that's all sorted so I'm pretty much sorted. Ann seems to have a load of things to sort out but I think I'd only get in the way!

Starting to get excited by the whole thing now it's going to be great to have everyone there for a big party.

Snow joke

Cycled to work again this morning through the snow, It was lovely it was like I had the clean world to myself. It was quiet hard going similar to running through wet sand was glad of the big thick tyres on Ann's bike!

Have been surprised that despite the weather warnings etc we have been busy in work people who have phoned in as it's to hard for them to get to work have been browsing the shopping center. These are the same people who went shopping in the sales on Stephens day, however if you asked them to work over Christmas there would be an uproar, as Christmas is a time for family! When Christmas becomes a 1 day bank holiday they will only have themselves to blame.

Even Ginger people

Just seen this, thought it was maybe a little offensive but still really funny!

Not much news really - Christmas is coming so I'm working like a dog at the moment. I don't mind too much as it can be good fun if not a little stressful trying to explain why a 12 year old wants a particular phone.

I managed to win a laptop last week in work, I'm not sure how and I don't really want to ask as surely to win a laptop you should be focusing on it.

My days off at this time of year and since the last trip to Glendalough I have not managed to climb on real rock. I seem to be getting days off either side of nice or at least dry days. This means that I am in the coop a lot at the moment. There are a good few people down there in the evenings so I am enjoying the social scene. I think this must be almost what it's like to have real friends and not just stand next to groups of people in pubs pretending.

After talking to a few people of late I have decided that maybe some sort of climbing goals are necessary for me to really improve. I was hoping to be a little more " I'd just like to climb harder" but I think having a specific aim is key. I was trying to avoid this as climbing is supposed to be fun and I thought it would add unnecessary pressure. Most people seem to think without goals you lose focus, so I hope to have some short term goals up for the Beginning of next year.

Looking forward to the trip to Sheffield in January, I'd really like to be bouldering well for that as last time we went I had a stinking cold. Although the way the weather has been it will probably piss it down. It's all good as I still haven't been to the fabled Climbing Works.

Then in another honeymoon twist we could be heading to Fontainbleau for 9 days of the trip as well as skiing in Austria. The reason for this is we have both been busy and Ann just wouldn't enjoy a week sport climbing as she hasn't climbed much recently. In font she is quiet happy to sit read and relax, for me it's win win. She did ask what we could do in font when we are not climbing and I was stumped, go to font and not climb and drink, is there anything else? I also have to stop referring to the honeymoon as THE FONT TRIP!

So there we go the wedding invites are sent, I worked very hard overseeing their design and production. In seven weeks I get to go skiing for a week, then climbing for 10 days and Sheffield before that. Hmm there was some thing else, if it comes to me Ill post it.

If I don't catch you before the festive season have a good one.