Airbrushing...

"Don't give your money to any institution that sells you the lie of 'perfection'. They are trying to break you, so you will hate yourself and go out and buy something you don't need, in order to fix something that was never broken in the first place."

Another new year...2018

New year, new me? I doubt it but it's always a time to think about what one might do differently over the coming year. For me, I think it's mostly about starting to move again, eating sensibly, spending less time working and more time playing. Time moves so fast and it's so easy to miss things because you're too busy staring at a screen.  My house won't fall down if I don't clean it. I might trip over something and do myself a mischief if I don't tidy it, but there's still only so much of that worth doing. I should aim to post more here too, for my own benefit not anyone else's.

So far this year has been ok. The weather has been predictably damp and gloomy although we seem to have escaped most of the crazy high winds that have hit the rest of the country (that makes a change - it's usually pretty windy here!). Thing 1 and Thing 2 have been good as gold, work wasn't too bad (although I'm anticipating that will not continue) and the fridge appears to be still reasonably full. The Paw Patrol cupcakes are still there (no surprise - I wonder how long it will take them to become obviously inedible...) and there are toys everywhere. But who am I to stifle the creativity of the very young? Here is the mess which greeted me over breakfast earlier this week:

Our Art Wall has also had a refresh. All the pictures have come down and we will spend this year filling it up again.  Here is the cumulative effort of the last couple of years:

Tonight, I'm struggling to sleep for some reason. I've no idea why. Being woken very early ought to mean I'm shattered by about 8.30 but tonight I am wide awake. Busy brain. Wondering about new year's resolutions. Lots of ideas of things to do, planning time to do them, mulling things over....I think the conclusion is that I need a Tardis if I'm going to tick anything off the list.

One special climbing trip - Part 3

Our sea stack day proved to be the start of some wet weather, so we tootled over to Reiff. But nae luck. We spent a day wandering like lost souls along the enticing cliffs at Reiff. Frustrated, we sat under an impressive roof and watched seals through the binoculars.



They say the best things come to those who wait, so wait we did. We were rewarded with a beautiful still evening and a dry day. We turned up at the Pinnacle Area to face the horror of Blackpool-style crowds! Hoards of climbers, crawling out from under rocks having spent the last 24 hours sheltering from the rain. Such was our determination to have the crag to ourselves, we hiked all the way round the bay to the Minch Wall.