Heights

They've put some clear glass floor like this at the top of the stairs in
the Nottingham Fat Cat, it's great having a lunchtime pint and watching
people freak out as they cross it.

I suspect it'll be gone by spring though as anyone stood at the bar gets
a view of people passing the ladies toilets, should they happen to look
up.

 

Heh, I thought of saying that. Even so, as Fr Jack sez, it doesn't
always work!

 

I do. Not extreme vertigo but pretty bad. It's mainly that I can
imagine exactly what it would be like to fall off.

So I took up climbing. Hasn't cured it completely but has put me more
at ease with high places.

 

I am scared of heights and found it very unnerving to be presented with

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As a lad of 7 I was taken up a 80ft tower crane by my brother. Amazing !
Also on same day to the edge of a newly built Tower Block in London, again
amazing!

Later years I have replaced the trolley wheel bearngs on similar equipment
in the City while on repairs for a Plant Hire company, 120ft up, 60ft out on
a gantry with suitable harness and tools with string on, amazing views and
you DON'T drop anything.
Sorting out the guide wheels on Ski lift towers while using a waist belt and
a 36mm A/f size spanner, plus 4ft scaff pole as extra leverage, leaning off
at 45 deg and pulling with all my strength was to say the least no problem.
Falling off the same tower whhen a Tirfor winch handle broke is summat else,
hence the fecked knee joints. (Only a 30ft fall, somersault, landing on the
fet, compression of the upperbody and a pair of knees in the face)

So I realy don't have a problem with hieghts at all.

HTH
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I hate heights. The only cure is repeated exposure, I'm afraid.[1]

[1] I can recommend the lifts in the Lloyd's Building.

 

You haven't be under ~15 stone, don't you?

 

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The Lloyds Building is one of my favourite buildings in London. Love
it.

 

That must have been horrible...

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I've been told that the observation deck of the CN Tower has a clear
floor section. I'd love to go and experience that. I quite like
heights, but occasionally I get a weird moment if I'm close to an edge,
even when there's a substantial barrier there.

Party poopers.

 

Aye. It's great inside. A real gem. A great cure for vertigo is to
be at a desk on, say, the 10th floor that is right next to the glass
atrium and looking down on the underwriting room.

 

Can you invite the BCB for a meeting?

 

Big Camp Bastard. Corfield.

I might pop in some time. Dunno when I'm working in London next. First
stop after Christmas is Birmingham. *shudder*

I scrub up okay, as it happens.

 

WTF is BCB? Erm, if you're booted and suited and wearing a tie[1], I
can give you a guided tour. And a pint.

[1] Dress code is V strict.

 

That the one just outside Le Havre? On the outward journey, I didn't
realise we were on a bridge until we were halfway over it as it was so
foggy / Nice views on the way back, mind.

 

You poor, poor man.

I guessed so. We had a colleague who was asked to leave once because
he was wearing a red blazer.

 

If you're working right in the centre it's improved, lots.

If you're working in another part you have my sympathy.

 

Quite right too.

 

yep

 

I didn't realise until I went over it on the return!