I think it was more of a mettyforical handcart than an actual handcart. But ICBW.



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I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty

that whooshing noise is the sound of a reference hurtling past my head at great speed...

[ping]

and that's the lightbulb coming on.

funny how posting an 'I dunno' post can suddenly clarify things.

All the references are up the top, for anyone who still can't work it out.



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A few days since the last post on this thread. How's the ankle, PSD ?

My ankle looks fantastic - it's (bursts into song)

Blue and yellow and purple too,
Swollen and puffy and black,
'Cause I made my ankle,
made my ankle,
made my ankle go "crack!"

My ankle is about as good as my singing. I'm going climbing on it next week while it still looks scary - it doesn't hurt as much now and I reckon I can put enough weight on it, even if I climb a grade or two lower.



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Climbing on a bruised ankle (sigh). Not surprised. One of my university friends was a climber - you get a lot of them at Sheffield Uni - and he spent almost his whole grant on climbing gear. He used to buy peanuts by the pound, and have some with a Mars Bar for lunch, all term.

We went out to Yarncliffe Quarry one day and he taught me to abseil. Good fun.

Climbing ona top rope is more fun than abseiling, as you get to come back down anyway...

I'm actually getting quite obsessive about it - I spent an hour at lunchtime sat in my garden with a piece of stone (2x3x1) working out every handhold on it, from every angle. Fortunately I don't climb outdoors very often, so haven't started spending a fortune on protection.

Aftr an hour I realsied how sad it was, so I went indoors to watch the rugby. Hurrah!



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There are certain rough, stone walls around Sheffield which occasionally develop smudges of white chalk leading upwards. Wonder how they get there....?

Don't know, but i know a few of my friends got their rope out, tied it to a bedframe and started scaling the walls of their halls in Birmingham. Apparently one of them got stuck trying to traverse between two windows, bottled it and had to be rescued by somebody else. Oops. The problem was that he'd gone too far across to one side, so that the length of rope between him and the bed was longer than the distance between him and the ground.

This is a bad thing, and can lead to cratering.

(Note - cratering is not a phrase describing a bad case of acne. it's far worse than that.)



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Hmmm, cratering....conjours up rather graphic image.

Another climbing friend of mine had the best collexion of scars you could imagine. He'd done a 60'seacliff climb with some friends.While winding up the ropes at the top of the cliff, he took one step back too far...

Broke his jaw, both legs and left arm. Was in a coma for two weeks and had a steel rod in his left thigh for years afterwards.

Don't you feel better now ?

Well, knocks spots off my ankle, I must say



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Now *that* is a darned peculiar image !

Sea cliffs are pretty notorious for falling debris.

I saw a programme following a French woman aiming to be the first person to solo the Old Man of Hoy (a huge sea stack). The biggest problem she had was about two thirds of the way up, when she popped her head up a bit close to a gull, which retaliated by vomiting all over her. That must wreck your concentration.



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