in serious run away mode..... Cornwall is beckoning even harder than ever and I just want to run............................surf.............. climb.....................

have started looking at jobs and houses... on my own........... my own place........... hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

and tonight it's Astanga yoga!!! yet another course I have signed up for, this one is a 6 week beginners course in power yoga!! Should be fun and as I am so stiff and achey from last night the stretching should combine well with climbing..... by the end of the 6 weeks I might even be on my way to a reasonable level fitness again which means I can eat vast dinners and drink copiuous amounts of alcohol with impunity!

Went climbing last night and scared myself silly but it was sooo good! Did the course a couple of weeks ago and have been down to the centre a couple of times since to try out all the exciting new techniques.... hmmmmmm boy can I smear well now!! Anyway sort of realised that my confidence is fine with top roping, I can happily climb to dizzying heights and make interesting moves if I have a rope attached.... but without a rope I have been a little wuzzy, until last night that is! There are a couple of sort of slabs (walls leaning away from you as you climb, makes it loads easier!) and I have free climbed these though must admit to pounding heart and liquid knees at first.... so the confidence has been growing a bit.. and I have progressed to doing the harder climbs on the easy slab...... last night........ wandered around and tried free climbing a wall that we had top-roped on the course. It has massive bolt-ons and chunky holds mainly because it has a very severe overhang at the top of the wall... so I looked at it and remembered how easy it was to climb with a rope.... actually felt a bit like walking up a ladder sooooooooo I decided to free climb but only up to 15ft when I planned to jump............. thing was when I was up there I was really enjoying the challenge and decided to continue.... and it was fun, not too difficult and even at the overhang bit the holds were solid ....... until the end.......... the wall ends on a platform, a flat platform with a couple of bolt-ons to grab and pull yourself up with.... trouble was there was nowhere for my left foot to go to push myself up from... and I was at this point about 25ft up dangling on an overhang with steadily growing panic /adrenaline coursing through my veins! hmmmmmm luckily someone saw my plight and offered a hand (how embarrassing but very very useful) sooo next time I am determined to do the same climb tho' this time I will look first before I start climbing to see exactly where my left foot can go. This is totally the advantage of using a climbing wall, you can go over and over the same climb until you get it right whereas climbing outdoors you generally do a route once and move on to something else...........

hmmmm the little Glastonbury bubble that I have been happily floating in for the last few days seems not to have burst but gently landed........... it was an excelllent, wonderful, chilled festival I am totally converted and want to return again and again, in fact I want to live that life.... though with fully flushing toilets as an addition!

So much was going on a time machine is a real necessity.. you could easily have so many different festival experiences with the use of a time transporter....... one could be where you squeeze in to see all the big named bands that are on, another could be spent in the Greenfields and Healing space getting wiped out and amazed, another could be trying out the new bands in the plethora of smaller stages and drinking beer and having a laugh with yer mates, and yet another could be wandering around the lost space and marvelling at the fully intentioned mayhem that is Lost Vagueness

Glastonbury

an excellent weekend....definitely the best festival I have ever been to...... the sun helped but it was so much more!! will add more later but as my blog has been updated I'm off to explore