B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for February 27, 2018

Two steps forward, one step back. This scree is harder to navigate than it looks.

The “mountain” or the line, John?

Mole-hill!!

Everything in its time and, in his case, lots of time

When you pack your own house around.. time is irrelevant.

….and you still haven’t reached the crest!

off the subject…but it just came to me. Why do we type/write contractions e.g. haven’t,wasn’t etc. when (it’s) just as easy to type/write an “o” as it is an ’ ?

Turtle abandons ‘completely suicidal’ solo ascent of deadly K-2

Perhaps a granny gear might reduce the effort he’s using (admittedly, it will not reduce the length of time required).

Contractions are alright when used for quoting speech but not necessary in normal typed text, doing so is a sign of laziness. I blame newspapers for the destruction of the English language. In order save the cost of ink, they would eliminate punctuation marks such as the Oxford comma, Christmas became Xmas, et al.

Turtle has climbed three feet of a four foot hill, in three weeks, so he has another week to reach the ‘summit’.