ClimbingInAutumnSunshine

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We met 12 o'clock oppostite the LLoyds building.Ben,Si,Lima, Chris, Lottie and Greenman attended. Chris looked like the cat in the hat does grungy rockstar on his BMX. I bumped into Frahid a participant of the previous climb who we had met on the street and who had joined us, he said he was missing climbing club since the last time and couldn't look at the city in the same way any more. He didn't join us because he was fasting, too much physical activity makes it harder. We spent a long time experimenting with our bodies and the the planters newly placed in the square out side credit agricole. The planters appeared possibly in response to latenight cricket matches which have sporadicallly taken place there. A notice for planning permission has been posted for hard and soft landscaping to take place in the square which will break up the space -large open spaces like this one provide too much possibility for unpredictable acts and uses and don't fit wiith the degree of control neccessary to maintain the hegemony of the City of London. We hung around the gerkin and appreciated the benches/public art with text carved into their granite surfaces invoking wild, open spaces are these texts intended to facilitate mental flight to somewhere free and unregulated? We noticed lots of plaques to the things that have been destroyed by the things that are now standing on them. Lots of the moves we tried were about flexibility and stupidity, the benches were perfect for practicing the spinning pigs tail a move innovated by seven year old callum dublin involving lying half on the bench with your head and arms on the ground and then rolling off inelegantly. We discovered that the road called Houndsditch got its name because people used to go to what was then the edge of the city to throw dead dogs away. The police turned up, were quite aggressive and said what we were doing was stupid, as if stupid behaviour were something one could be charged with. One officer made some racist inferences from a subjectivity presumable so ingrained that when challenged he seemed genuinely unaware of how his comment was prejudiced. More meandering and considerinng what the limits of antisocial behaviour are and we dispersed. back to UoClimbingClub