Late Night Drinking

Transposed from an older blog

The first Friday of the month is usually a climb training workshop in the Greenpeace warehouse. Usually it's just a matter of showing people the gear and the ropes, and giving them a basic into.

I've learnt the ropes many times, but try and get along to keep my skills fresh. Not that I ever get to use those skills on an action, but one day (I hope)

But buried under meetings and work to do, to try and get this 4x4 poll on the road. We need to recruit lots of people quick.

So skip climb training, which is a shame as someone has come up with a really cool obstacle course round the warehouse. With things to climb, ropes to traverse accross, a big pully slide to whiz across and some more ropes to traverse onto.

OK sitting in front of a computer may be more productive, but the climbing looked fun.

Down pub with networker from Essex, who by now has arranged the great big stitch up (see later) and then lots and lots of beer till early with a German activist.

From these drunken conversations spins off a whole dialogue in the forums, comparing Greenpeace volunteers networks here, in Germany in Finland and who knows where else?