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SomethingOrOther-
Thanks.
Don't really have the money for a hotel at this point in time and my landlord will be here early in the morning to check everything out so I'm just going to hold out. One of the guys on my team lives just down the road so I at least managed to get a shower at his. Fortunately I'm fully kitted out with multiple lights and battery packs and have a bunch of warm clothes already in my kit bag so tonight should be no trouble :)
frankenbike
Yeah ice spikers would have been spot on for this year. Icy slabs of rock is probably the one thing I was least prepared for. Snow, rain, cold, mud wouldn't have bothered me - just not ice!
Shame I couldn't meet both of you - didn't have the energy for much aside from sitting in the van. Maybe next year? ...
I returned home to find that moments before I arrived the flat above had had a burst pipe, and the water had leaked all through the electrics in the ceiling and through the fire alarm, which set it off. So the lady in the flat below (who also had water coming through her ceiling) had called the fire brigade who arrived a few minutes after me. No electricity or heating for 24 hrs whilst everything dries out! Just what I needed