I got a very short climbing session in (just over1 hour). It's barely enough time to get warm, so I didn't manage anything hard. I had a train to catch, hence the short session.

Congratulations mang, well played.

I went caving over the weekend.

Saturday was quite a little of rope work; the biggest pitch was 70m. I got stuck in a rift between two of the pitches, other than that it was a great trip.



Sunday was a little trip, but with much faffing so I got home at 10 p m..

I went climbing today, with a distinct lack of energy.

Yesterday, I finally finished my cavern diving course. It rocked.





The sump was 750 metres from the car park, up a steep hill. Carrying my tanks up and down felt like exercise... I took two trip to start, and three to come back.

I did dry caving on Sunday, a rather nice sporting 6 hour trip with lots of rope work.

Long time without logging...



I went caving a week ago on Saturday. It was a good, hard session. We were underground for 8 hours.

We surveyed my cave on Sunday, and actually finished the survey. So we are close to being able to name it.

The alarums and excursions included me losing my car keys. I had my house keys, wallet, mobile phone and clean clothes in the car. I plopped the car app onto a friend's phone, which solved the not having useful stuff issue.

A friend gave me a lift back on Monday. I went swimming in Tuesday. I got the train back to Wales on Wednesday after work, and after a couple of hours found a cab willing to take to the back end of nowhere to reunite me with my car .

I worked from home at the caving hut on Thursday, so I walked up the local hill looking for caves over my lunch hour. I failed to find any caves, but the view was nice.



I drove back to London on Thursday evening, and went for a climb on Friday. The middle finger on my right hand hurt like hell. I tried to ignore it, and fell off loads of easy climbs due to mild pain. The pain improved the more I climbed, so my cunning plan worked. I eventually sent a v5. Yeah buddy! 2.5 hour session, and loads of walking.

I had a rest day on Saturday, and got 12 miles' walk in.

I contemplated a rest day today, and ended up walking 10 miles then climbing for 2.5 hours, so I wasn't entirely successful in that endeavour.

England had a very cold snap recently, getting to as low as -12.5 centigrade in Norfolk. I decided to cope with this by running away.

I went to Watamu in Kenya for some scuba diving. We were helping to restore the corals.

A typical day was:

7 a.m breakfast

7.30 walk to scuba shop, about 15 minutes down the beach.

8 to 12.30-ish two scuba dives, typically shallow and lasting from an hour to 80 minutes each.

Walk back to the accommodation (A Rocha, a conservation charity) after rinsing the kit.

1 p.m, although we were normally late, lunch.

2 p.m. to 4 p.m I had kite surfing lessons. I think I have a new hobby, it was really fun.

4 p.m. to 6 p.m. snorkeling and free diving, or yoga.

7 p.m. or later was dinner.

It was a nice level of activity, a bit more may have been ideal but it was relaxing.

Pictures to follow when I get back, which will be Saturday.

I have been active, my logging is crap.

I did another cave diving course. It was cracking fun; I recommend it. The course was TDI intro to cave; I did it in a mine in Derbyshire.



I went climbing in Monday, I was average.

I went climbing today, I was actually pretty good until I did something unpleasant to my shoulder .

My logging is a bit crap. I have been doing stuff.

Saturday

A rare outdoor climbing session, on the Southern sandstone at Tunbridge Wells on top rope. Good fun, I should do this more.

Sunday

I came down with something.

Monday

I recovered.

Indoor bouldering. Really good fun, we practiced jumping moves. I got my fist ever lache dyno (where you swing on the first move to get enough momentum to jump).