Manchester Talented Climbers Day

Ellie was invited to attend a "Talented Climbers Training Day" in Manchester run by the British Mountaineering Council. Along with 4 of the other Mountaineering Ireland Youth Team members they spent a very productive day learning lots of useful skills. Slept well afterwards too.

Jamie and Ellie in action on the boulder wall

Still cold

Overnight snow so Ellie builds a "Health & Safety Snow Angel"
(dunno where she gets her ideas from ?!?!)

The Big Freeze !!!

Well since Christmas Eve, we've been in the grip of the coldest spell of weather I can remember. Overnight temperatures as low as -12C, 4 days with no water as despite copious lagging, the supply line under the field froze solid - even the Calor gas froze and had to be covered with blankets.
Luckily the forgotten bag of coal in the shed came in handy.

Pretty pictures though... view of the village from the mountain road

one of Ellie's artistic shots