Grumpy Old Men's Climbing Club

 

 

 

Hi Grumpies. We have had a Grumpies page now since 2007 and it has become by far the largest part of my website, currently with over 4500 pictures stored on my website and on the remote server with Zen. In order to reduce this enormous load of storage, I have decided to just retain the last 5 years as "live" sites and archive all the others. If anyone would like a particular year revived. just let me know and it is easily done. I hope that this meets with approval.

I think that it was Eileen's fault (above) that the whole thing started, our fault for always grumping I suppose but it was the sudden appearance of the T shirts that finally kicked it off. With the aid of Eileen's new T shirt printing software there it was on the front, a silhouette of a climber on a piece of rock on Bamford Edge, coincidently known a Wrinkled Wall, there was no escape. From that day on, an epidemic of T shirts slowly spread amongst us, afflicting the grumpy and the not so grumpy alike, mainly the aged but occasionally youngsters barely out of their 50th year.  There was no cure, like small pox or any other pox for that matter, once infected we were marked men, scarred into our twilight years.

Constitution? Rules? Not really. I suppose that in the unlikely event of a member becoming positive and forward looking there could be a ceremonial defrocking where the guilty would have his T shirt ripped from his body and him sent away in total disgrace to do the honourable thing with a sharpened walking stick.

Below, click for members listing. Updated February 2020

 

 

 

chris jackson e-mail

Banner. When we were very young.

 

 

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