TGO Challenge 2009 Trip Report

yes, folks, here it is at long last, see it over at ww.doodlecat.com/tgo/MKnipe2009/intro.html

The 2009 TGO Challenge Report.

All those who have been holding their breath waiting for this will have had their wills read by now...

Phil (Lord Elpus) Lambert at Whiplash Hall has triumphed once again and turned a set of competely inane ramblings into a neat and tidy set of completely inane ramblings.

Just about to post off my application for the 2010 TGO Chally - the envelope has had it's stamp on and been sitting on the mantelpiece for several days now.

But what route shall I attempt? Shall I turn on my GPS this year? And will I ever learn to pack the inner of the akto seperate from the outer when the outer is wet through and the inner isn't.

August Howgills in Doodlecat

I just had an email from Lord Elpus to say that the absolute final episode of the Howgills sago has now been repainted, vaccuumed out, polished up and de-greased and is now appearing over at http://www.doodlecat.com/howgills/12aug.html

This is, no doubt, some great relief to Phil and, he appears to have celebrated the fact by installing a new kitchen, thus earning a great big pile of Good Boy Points.

I hope he spends them wisely, I really do.

Just one thing about the August edition. It has more than one walk in it. Don't stop reading after the first, unless you are asleep or in a Howgill-induced catatonic ..er..thing. Carry on bravely till the very end.

There will be a test at the end of term. Anybody who gets less than 25% will have to visit my rooms for a thrashing with my pet plimsole, Ronny.

Anyway. its finished. Over. Ended.

Phew.

To celebrate, and by way of distraction, I've included here a short video which has fluffy kittens and some pigs and stuff.

yet more stuff about the Howgill Fells

Yes folks, its that time of the month when we like to plug yet another instalment of the on-going and apparently never-ending story of that very small group of hills stuck onto the side of the Yorkshire dales - the very lovely, grassy hump-like blobs - the Howgill Fells.

Readers of this epic rice-pudding...er..sago...er...saga will be relieved to know that their ordeal is almost over and that they've been very brave and that they've done very well so far. Only one more episode to go.

First, read the interlude here http://www.doodlecat.com/howgills/interlude.html

Then press the little "next" button at the bottom of the page. Thats the one on Doodlecat. there isn;t a "next" button on this page, so don't go looking for it.

Unusually for this blog, there'll be another posting along very shortly.

More Howgills stuff

...is now appearing at http://www.doodlecat.com/howgills/10jun.html . This, of course, is the June entry in the diary, rather bizarrishley written in October 2006. There's just another two months of this stuff to go. Many people..er some people..er. somebody ... will be wondering exactly what the point of all of this is. This is the one where we introduce a bit of uncertainty and tension and stuff...

So, there you are.

Whats happening with my TGO trip report?

Phil Lambert, head honcho of the very fine Doodlecat has indicated that he’d likely accept my 2009 TGO Challenge trip account on the Doodlecat website.

I think this is probably the best place for it (providing its any good!), along with multiple other TGO challenge accounts. Presumably some other Challengers will be looking to post accounts and picture albums there too. It’s a cracking resource for this kind of stuff.

So, the result of this is that there will be very little further mention of the TGO Challenge on this blog, at least until the October issue of TGO Magazine comes out. Unles I get a bit maudlin about it and start missing the constant rub of skeggy undies against glowing thighs, the delicious smell of damp socks and the craving for sausage and chips. No! I will have none of it. At least for a few months anyway.

Until then, I leave the TGO with a cuppla pics – the bottom one being sent to me earlier today by Challenger Tony Bennett, whom, along with this mate Steve, crossed paths with me several times between Newtonmore and somewhere else. It is, of course, yours truly reclining recumbently and a bit imperially at Gelder Shiel with a cup of hot chocolate. There’s a couple of other pics too. I’m saving the rest for Doodlecat and the occasional unresisted mention of the TGO.

There’ll be a shameless plug when it appears. I’ve not started writing it yet – I want things to sink in a bit. I have made no notes at all, so, when it happens, the result will be inaccurate, disjointed, untrue and at best, exaggerated. Specially the bit about the slug. Anyway, you’ll have to wait.

That’s http://www.doodlecat.com/


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Howgills Diary thingy

I don't usually post more than once a day, but Phil Lambert emailed me just now to say that the May episode of the Howgills diary is now posted on Doodlecat at http://www.doodlecat.com/howgills/index.html

read it.

its fab

Its a non-smoking walk.

This is a plug.

A shameless plug

He's having trouble with his ftp, though, apparently and can't write a Doodlecat post till whatever it is stops doing whatever it isn;t doing, or starts doing something it should.

sorry about the technical jargon here, sometimes plain English just isn't enough....

New Plug for Doodlecat

No, Phil hasn;t been investing in new bathroom equipment, its my monthly shameless plug about the Howgills diary thingy wots over at Doodlecat.

This time, we're in April.

See it here at http://www.doodlecat.com/howgills/08apr.html

Incidentally, Bob Cartwright says my new sleeping bag will be delivered tommorrow...

I'd better have a good old slug of 40% or I'll be too excited to sleep......

Can you see the shape in the scree on the pic? Is it a camel? Is it a Llama? Is it a random shape in the scree?

Mistletoe and Whine - Xmas Howgills on Doodlecat

The Howgills Diary account and walk description (well, sort of...) for December is now appearing on Doodlecat. Read it here at http://www.doodlecat.com/howgills/index.html

Drama!

Tension!

Passion!

Action!

New Cliff Richards Christmas Hit!

None of these are contained in this account!

Read it before Christmas! Or feel dead left out, like, sorta thing!

Yet another shameless plug....

Incidentally, whoever it is in the Anteeps, down there in New Zealand who is reading the blog - hello and welcome and we are the right way up! Hope you are enjoying the fun. We do requests......

(Pic is a friendly Howgills Fell pony)