Sandy’s Treatment – Day 201

Up in enough time. What happened?

Breakfast, including that of the dog before I got too many dirty looks.

Ironing, washing, then haymaking.

Then lunch.

Then caravan.

Didn’t feel like it but a surprising number of tasks have been completed today.

Supper was another Sandy request, flavoured (Cider vinegar and muscovado sugar) and barbecued pork and other bits. A fresh pineapple also featured.

Sewing’s featured today – more than yesterday as there was no broadcast from SW19. I hope that I’m detecting an improvement. It’s slight and slow, but I’m hoping it’s there.

More than fifty years ago, pre O level time, we were studying glaciation and it was about the time of the first winter climb of the north face of the Matterhorn. One of our masters was a mountaineer and skier, and we learnt a lot about overhangs, horns caused by glaciation, drumlins, eskers, U shaped valleys, tarns, corries, plucking, and the like. I remember one lesson where we had to think about scaling and overhang and a few weeks later we were doing it on Dartmoor, Leather Tor if I remember correctly.

The Matterhorn is named, we were told, because it is a horn, the north face overhang and as such is a pretty difficult climb, especially in winter. I remember the BBC news mentioning the climb, which I now know was February 1962.

By Photo: chil, on Camptocamp.orgDerivative work:Zacharie Grossen – Camptocamp.org, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=16791896

So why mention this, what triggered the memory? In Sainsbury’s on Friday a lady was wearing a t-shirt emblazoned with the logo of the clothing company The North Face. And the overhang was generous.

Tomorrow work. Results Day. I’ll be emailing students. Tuesday, resit support, Wednesday at doc’s with Sandy then staff support. Thursday it’s meeting prospective visiting lecturers. All that and see how many typos I can make.

Music: George Lloyd’s Requiem, sung by the Exon Singers. Fourteen years since the London Bombings.

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