Couldn't believe it spent the whole week trying to sleep off nights in the heat of a fairly good spell weather wise,woke up Saturday morning and shock horror, chucking it down with rain. Typical, my first of two rest days and it's raining. To make matters worse Oliver stayed over and was looking forward to going to the beach but ended up spending the morning in the house. Which wasn't to bad because at least we were together.
His reading is really good and I can't believe he just sits and reads paragraph after paragraph and is also trying to pronounce the names of Dinosaurs.
Kelly was at work but had the next day off so Saturday was fairly uneventful but at least Kelly was off Sunday so fingers crossed for good weather.
Sunday morning, rain! Chilled all morning but then decided to go to the indoor climbing wall at Newton Aycliffe. We've been going there for quite sometime now and it's a good work out. We're not Adam Ondra by any stretch of the imagination and for a start I'm scared of heights which limits me some what,but we have a laugh and a good couple of hours trying to beat each other on different routes or problems on the Bouldering walls.
I used to climb when I was in the army but it was limited as I was away a lot and didn't get chance to carry it on. Also I was once at the climbing wall in Edinburgh and had got to the top of a particularly trick route and was having a well deserved rest whilst my belayer had me locked off safely. I was preparing to be lowered down when I heard a 'whoosh' of fast moving rope and a sudden scream of pain from across the hall. I looked across and saw a bloke lying almost motionless on the deck and his belayer screaming looking at his hands. My buddy let me down a little bit too quick for my liking but once I'd untied myself we rushed over to the pair now both in obvious pain. Ambulance arrives and they're both taken away. My SSM went with the pair (don't know why) and tells us all later in the day of what had happened. Both the lads were accomplished climbers and had come to the wall for the day to train. The one who was climbing had reached the top and the belayer was preparing to lower his mate. However, the belayer had a moments lapse of concentration and in that moment, his mate slipped, plunging about 50 feet to the floor, and the wrenching 'pop' we heard when he hit the ground was his pelvis snapping in half. The belayer tried to grab the rope but the speed of the fall caused the rope to rip through his hands causing horrific friction burns to both hands. That incident slightly un nerved me to say the least.
Anyway, we have good days at the wall and normally go home knackered ready for a drink or two. Kelly is the better of us as she doesn't have as much weight to lift as me ( that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it). We both prefer out door climbing but unfortunately we are at mercy of the weather and can't always get there.
Kelly has informed me this blog is a bit dull as I haven't uploaded any pics yet, unfortunately I don't know how to so she'll have to try when she gets in from work. Bye for now
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