Due to lack of foresight and people doing other things this was just a day trip. Early Sunday morning Tony arrived with Wendy and off we (Ray, Steve O, and me - Sam) set for the Dales. We met up with the York folk, Steve B. and Grovel in Bernies and after breakfast headed for the hills. Leck Fell was being fairly pleasant (no horizontal sleet anyway) and we agreed to rig the Centipede route, whilst team York would rig Dome and carry on to the bottom. Grovel kept us entertained on the way down by complaining about his harness which was either too loose, or too tight, but generally not right. Once down all the pitches we did the obligatory stomp upstream, and then downstream until it got too wet (except for Grovel who'd seen it before and had more pressing problems arguing with his harness). I volunteered to derig, mostly so I could play at swinging out of the eyehole on Dome pitch. However, it turned out that York had not rigged the eyehole and instead chosen a squalid little crawl popping out over a cavernous rift - boring. It was also a job to keep the oldies moving as they kept sitting down for rests, claiming that they were waiting for tackle sacks to carry out. Speaking of tackle sacks, we appeared to be one short, the York folk having rashly invested a fortune in krabs, which may be light and easy to use in these days of "join the dots P hangering", but are somewhat bulky once you've collected 50 of them. Eventually we made it out and then had to catch up with team "York" who we met coming up the hill to rescue us as we were driving off Leck fell.
Roll up, roll up come and see Leck Fell's finest. I can't go myself - cos I'll be living it up in Majorca caving \ gorging \ climbing and not at all drinking any of the free alcohol on offer (some chance!).
Close on the heels of the Stell's announcement comes John and Linda, who are pregnant (well strictly speaking only Linda is pregnant, John only looks pregnant). The little chap \ chapess is due around Christmas time or so, which comes as a major setback to John's skiing calendar. He'll just have to take up knitting or something. All the best from Muss anyway.
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Feel free to send \ phone up with what's happening, things you'd like to do, holidays \ parties we could gatecrash, etc etc. What are people doing at New Year for instance? That's it for now, see you all soon
Sam Lieberman, The Twenties, Twentypence Road, Wilburton, Ely, Cambridgeshire, CB6 3RN
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