180 days to go

Now this is going to come as a shock to those of you with eyes, but I’m no slave to fashion. OK, so I read InStyle and I’ll pick up Vogue in the hairdressers (well, the alternative is Heat) but jeggings? Really? No.

As you will have noted in this blog, following fashion isn’t really a priority in the climbing world, which is troubling, even to someone who has no intention of buying a shiny grey suit with 3/4 length sleeves just because the 80s are back.

I don’t understand why this should be. It’s perfectly possible not to look like a Grade A billy-o on the ski slopes, where you’re basically strapping bits of duvet to yourself, and skateboarding clothing has been on the catwalk (I know, I read Vogue). So why, when it’s just trousers and tops, can’t there be options other than beige? Beige with odd sagging.

Solutions, not problems, as problem-causing line managers tend to say and here at two-go-mad-up-a-mountain we’re prepared to see this as an opportunity to fill the vacuum and be trend setters. As mentioned last month, we will be taking our moustache-theming from last year’s Reading festival beyond badges and flags, to every possible realm. My sister gave me a lovely pair of ‘tache earrings last week and today I took delivery of two moustache bandanas, for myself and Wendy.

The terrible thing about being a two-person trend, however, is that we look like twins. Potentially idiot twins and not dissimilar to those poor twins seen weeping in supermarket aisles because their parents have dressed them in the same clothes. And to what end? I hear having twins is the fastest possible way to lose all your sleep. Faster even than suspending a beef joint just out of reach of next door’s dog. Surely with all that sleep deprivation you’re at risk of double vision anyway, why ram the point home?

The bonus for us is that, should one of us succumb to the madness/vomiting, the other one can stand in for all the photos. Genius.



What we have learned:
Skateboarding is a sport
Wendy’s bandana is black
The 80s are so not back

Boot update:
The four socks have been tucked into the boots in preparation for next week’s rescheduled walk