In reply to Mick - UKClimbing.com:
Great write up! Could writing standards around here be much higher? Well, maybe, if I de-stressed and remembered speling & grammair.
Mick, I was there in 1980 - I think? The only one I ever went to. Where were you? Sorry about Steve telling you to, "F_ck off!" He was probably a bit under the weather at the time. Lovely bloke, really.
Alison S, The Bat's well worth seeing, Rab C and Brian Hall as Smith & Haston, get 'em to show it again, preferably with Curran's auteur, world film premiere hissyfit thrown in!
No hissyfits from the 'Up Where The Brave Go' boys (and girls). A bit like those lonely Siegfrieds of the 1930s on the Eigerwand, bad conditions & all that, but ever upwards.
There were men abed in Dorset who would have given half their new(?) routes to be there. Is there a next year? There's always a next year! "Ah, Jerry, why ask for the moon... when we have the stars!!!"
Meanwhile, back on planet auteur, 'one nod of my head would summon Lucy Creamer to my UKC trailer….”Marc! Wake Up!” Reality bit me too...' Aye, my lad, I'll bet it did. No doubt a good clout of the rolling pin awaited you when you finally made it home!
All best wishes,
Mick