Tag: friendship

Spontaneous lockdown gatherings

1 July 2020

During lockdown all sorts of spontaneous and semi spontaneous socialising moved to Zoom. Dean and the gang, Emily and gang, Wheaty, Mat, Helen, cake'n'roll, clan friends etc. I'm looking forward to seeing people's faces in real life, but I won't forget the very silly times we managed to have despite all the distance ˜Š Originally […]

Friends came together at lockdown start

30 June 2020

Right at the start of lockdown, some friends got together to cook food on Zoom and chat. Cooking with Company was born. Every week, people will come together on Zoom. Ignore the theme for that week, and share their successes, creations, failures and commiserations with the crew on Zoom. We've had curry night, Italian night, […]

Getting to know the person who holds your rope

14 May 2020

It can be quite tricky to get to know the person who's been holding the end of your rope. Usually you're separated by 10m vertically, and you're swearing at life, the route setter and everything and trying not to fall off. This doesn't leave loads of opportunity to get to know each other. Except occasionally […]

Describing the monsters under my bed.

10 March 2015

I want to describe one of the monsters under my bed – one of the things that keeps me awake at night. I don't believe describing the monster will make it disappear, but I hope it may help you understand how I'm feeling about something I've barely mentioned. In 2007, I wrote this article about […]