I was at work yesterday, and had to do a double take as I entered the Plas Y Brenin dining room to collect my lunch, yes it was a well known Olympic gold medalist. apparently after climbing with the BMC at Stanage she has been bitten by the climbing bug, so has come on a Rock Climbing Course, so watch out at the crags!
I was there to help out on the ML ropework day, and spent the day over the road on the Ricks and Racks, and spent the day looking at confidence roping, emergency use of the rope for the mountain leader, including the ‘classic’ abseil. Now for most mountain leaders they will never ever have to use the classic abseil, apart from on there ML training and assessment. I however seem to do a lot of the ropework days so end up doing about one a month or more on average. I wonder whether it will effect my chances of ever conceiving a child (although my personality often seems to be a big enough barrier!).
The day had a small amount of downtime in the afternoon, so I picked up the staff copy of the Daily Mail, and flicked through. Now seeing that I enjoy a good headline I found a couple of great stories.
“My Helicopter Hell”, was a prime example of Daily Mail readership worries. An old lady had her neighbour landing his helicopter anything up to 4 times a week, and once it landed 4 times in one day. I mean it must be a living hell for her. Image if she lived next to a Motorway or Main Railway line or even over the Heathrow flight path! I mean in Snowdonia we are constantly buzzed by RAf training Helicopter or the Big Yellow Rescue Taxi.
An even funny headline was “Millionaire Mansion in Sex Orgy Party”, where a upper class family had hired out there mansion house for a weekend party, and having seen all the guest turn up in very posh cars and then watch at the stroke of midnight as it turn into a deprived sexathon. The quote was ‘I counted at least four couple at it against the Bannister’s’. Sounds like an amazing party to me!
I have been trying to do a bit of school work today, and finally got onto SPSS, which is a sick computer program design to do statistical analysis, it is an arse to use, and even harder to interpret. Anyway it looks like my relaxation protocol has a significant effect within a minute, which is a relief. I did try and see my supervisor today, but it is graduation day, so he’ll be in the pub all day I suspect.