Yesterday we awoke to a massive contrast of weather, overnight it went from days of barely breaking 5 degrees to a morning of 20 degrees plus! Nicer than a British summer : ) without a cloud in sight and the sun beating down it felt like Spain really should feel; although there was no sea or sand in sight. Kay, now happy as can be with the new found warmth, was surprisingly up for spending Valentine’s Day trudging around the forest climbing the day away. I do feel this was only classed as acceptable after I had proposed the idea of going out for a meal for the evening and spending the night in a hotel. The prospect of someone else cooking tea followed by a shower was more than enough to excite us both!

Cosmos… On my last post I said to ‘watch this space’, well I hope no one’s holding their breath. After another hour of effort I was shut down again (plenty of time left for another shot another day though), 2 minutes later the friendly faces of Andy, Hannah and pooch River walked round the corner. Having lived here for the past few months (Lucky buggers) we are now abusing their local knowledge of the crags, and it’s great to have a couple of mates from back home to climb with.