No one seems to have taken me up on the money back guarantee which I
offered on all purchases of Between The Trees. All I had requested was
that you had seen every boulder problem in the film climbed (either in
real life or in a video)… how hard could that be? There
weren’t any [...]
English man in Font
I hate when people start blog entries with lines such as
“It’s been a long time” or “It’s been ages
since I’ve been on here”, so I’ll spare you the rage
and simply say “errr, well, I don’t know. I haven’t
posted in ages and I’m not entirely sure why. That’s the
truth”. One thing [...]
It is not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent,
but the ones most responsive to change. - Charles Darwin
This is a long post so here is a summary for those whose time is more
valuable; I’ve not climbed all winter. I feel pretty annoyed about
it. The flipside is that I’ve boarded a lot, and I’ve put
energy into some other avenues of my life which have borne the sweetest
fruits. I got better [...]
One week ago I saw a hand specialist and I went in filled with optimism.
He listened to my explanation, my adamant tone regarding just how
important it is I have a working hand, and then made a swift diagnosis.
He said that there was some sort of rupture on my tendon sheath, which
was [...]
Movement. A good friend once sent me postcard which said “movement
is life. Stillness is death” and it’s the kind of statement
that can mean nothing but can also mean everything if you choose to read
something into it. It’s true on a very logical level, in that
being dead is intrinsically linked with being [...]
Sometimes the truth really is stranger than fiction, and sometimes
it’s just so terribly mundane that it makes for such bland
writing, to the point whereby the words seem wasted. It wouldn’t
take a genius to figure out which has actually occurred in the last
couple of months. Whilst autumn was spent editing and cursing a [...]
After Between The Trees went platinum, I decided to take some time off
and look slightly beyond the horizon. I bought a big warehouse in China
and have a team of 40 people who do nothing but box and ship DVD’s
out in their thousands. I was surprised by the take up in nations such [...]
The last few weeks things have been eerily silent on here. I’d
like to say this is because I’ve made so much money from the DVD
that I’ve bought a house in the mountains and retired. In actual
fact, it’s nothing so glamorous. In actually fact, I feel a lot
more like Marlow going to [...]
On Friday I was supposed to be changing the price of the DVD and HD
option from £17 to £19. I genuinely meant to do it, but the
day unfurled a little differently than I expected, culminating in a trip
to Bristol to party with some expected and some unexpected characters
(and sometimes all in [...]
At least a small part of me expected to be starting this post with
something like “The epic continues…” but instead I
have great news to report. This morning I decided to take action and put
things back under my own control, so at 8am I headed off down to London.
Two hours later I [...]
