Spending the evening supervising the public climbing session tonight.... there are 12 people climbing at the moment and I feel too lazy to join in so thought I would make the most of the computer and add a comment or two...

Was in London at the weekend... meal at Quecum Bar (yes i know a terrible name!!!) it was somewhere down Battersea High Street... pleasant place and got to see London friends... which was nice indeed...

sad stuff at home though as J & H have split up... will be very sad not to see H again.... she has been part of the family for so long....and this is the first big split up for either J or J....

looking forward to Glastonbury and have had my confirmation from Greenpeace about my ticket... made me laugh though as the letter said I would be working on the climbing 'frame' I know they said it would be a smaller wall this year but how much smaller????? Just hoping it's an admin error...

Have just finished reading The Eternal Child by Clive Bromhall, a fascinating read about human evolution that really does seem to pull together lots of anomalies concerning human development and human behaviour. It is well written and its arguments are clear... it is the sort of book that makes you look at the world differently after reading it!

Now well settled into my new job and the season has really started so it's busy now until September. We had a residential group in this week and I was 'looking after' them so took them for a mixture of activities like climbing but also had to do evening activities so had them playing games in the woodland and by the time it came for them to leave felt I knew them all very well and they were all really sweet saying their goodbyes and thankyous... so this job is more than just the activity. It is getting pretty social too... we have public climbing once a week which I join in although feel slightly intimidated by the group of French blokes who are very loud and quite expert climbers... I always seem to bang my head on the wall or slip off as I am about to start when they are there???

Last Sunday was gorgeous weather...the only day so far ... and the evening was really quiet so I though I would go for a swim. You see in my head I have this plan of getting really really fit and swimming everyday is included in that plan. But it is still May and the weather has actually been quite cold so the lake hasn't really warmed up yet... taking this into account I put my wetsuit on... thank god I did... I stepped into a shallow bit near the jetty and literally had my breath taken away from me... but I was in the water so couldn't at this point turn back, it would look very silly to put a wetsuit on and then stand in the lake up to my knees and then get out...but it was freezing freezing freezing!!!At each stroke I could feel a little trickle of icy water creep into the back of my wetsuit and despite the theory of wetsuits it did not get any warmer!! So I swam up and around the moored powerboats, passed the yacht along to the other jetty and then straight back to the jetty and ran straight into the shower.

The week before all the staff went on a high ropes trainers course which was excellent... very very inspiring and massively confidence building.... by the end of it I was happily hanging upside down rescuing someone 30 ft up... and it has made me more confident generally with all the activities ... I have learnt that I can push myself quite easily to do lots of physically difficult stuff...