Keeping it real

Keeping it real

(thanks for the poster Denny!!) Some background: Oliver (flashed? – correct me if I’m wrong guys?) 3 grades harder than his previous best redpoint.  Respect… For the connoisseur: spot the reference to the grade 33/34 route…..again, well  done Denny!! Sneaky!!  

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Quoting by

Quoting by

“Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn’t they’d be married too. ” ~ H.L. Mencken “After two days in the hospital, I took a turn for the nurse” ~ W.C. Fields “We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect...

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Italians…

Italians…

(thanks Takkies!) Fabrizio: Rossi Biaggi Schettino    

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Some random quotes

Some random quotes

“Well, I’ll say this: climbing can kill you, but women can destroy you. There’s a big difference, y’know.”  ~ Derek Hersey “What most male climbers want from their female partners is one thing: a good belay.”  ~ robDotCalm “Researches found that licking the sweat from a frog cures depression, only problem is as soon...

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Mermaids Stopping Govt Work

Mermaids Stopping Govt Work

From a friends’ FB feed – thanks Daisy! Full story in The Herald: “WATER Resources Development and Management Minister Samuel Sipepa Nkomo had a Senate Committee on Gender and Development in stitches when he alleged that mermaids were preventing Government officials from installing water pumps at dams in Gokwe and Mutare.” ” ‘We even hired whites...

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Your dog?

Your dog?

Thanks Elna!

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The blogger who kicked the hornet’s nest

The blogger who kicked the hornet’s nest

Some lyrics from an album of a band that I recently discovered, The Black Keys. Shame, the silly man I started catching up on some sleep after a full weekend’s climbing. Bliss. I really don’t know why I have this aversion to resting – best I could come up with so far is Cat...

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The end of something

The end of something

I don't step on witches When they crawl across my floor

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Beware the flare

Beware the flare

http://www.news24.com/SciTech/News/Solar-bullet-to-hit-Earth-20120124 “Charged particles from the sun will strike the Earth on Tuesday after a huge solar flare erupted on Monday. The M9-class solar flare was observed by Nasa’s Solar Dynamics Observatory and erupted from a sunspot on Monday at 03:59 GMT, SpaceWeather.com reported. The coronal mass ejection or CME is travelling to Earth at...

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End of the world?!

End of the world?!

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