Tag: challenge

Reaching the bottom of the most challenging caves

20 April 2020

Reaching the bottom of the most challenging caves is something you do with ropes "so is caving ropework a bit like climbing?" They're very different. When climbing, you use the rope as safety device in case you fall. When caving, you use the rope as a way of moving vertically through places where climbing would […]

A Blog Post A Day: Looking Back

1 December 2012

31 days ago, I set out to write a blog post for every day in November. The low points: Posting various relatively poorly formatted, rushed or somewhat rambling posts that are probably below par. Rushing to midnight deadlines Desparately trying to push posts online at 11:50pm via GSM on a train! The high points: Completing various […]

Oh no-NanoWriMo

31 October 2012

According to Wikipedia: NaNoWriMo is an annual internet-based creative writing project which challenges participants to write 50,000 words of a new novel between November 1 and 30. A number of people I know have done this in previous years my friend Dan Lynch even wrote a song about it: (I may have once mercilessly reworded/hacked […]

Here's a challenge…

28 January 2012

On the 1st of March, I will start my fifth year of blogging. It's had various incarnations over the years and I did have a website before that, but I thought this not-very-impressive birthday deserved a bit of a celebration. "Well Tim", you smugly point out, "shouldn't your Happy-Birthday-To-Me post be on the first of […]