How do you count time?

Climbers do not count time in days or weeks, indeed. It is useless notion for them. Instead, you could sometimes hear such expressions as: "Oh, it was long time ago I went climbing, I had to cut my nails four times!". So the currency of time in climbing is the nails. You can't climb with long nails, so if you climb often, they never happen to grow long as you cut them all the time. But if you are taking a break, you will have to deal with the nail cutting as it is not comfortable to wait until you would be climbing again!
So let me explain the meaning of such expressions:
"I had to cut the nails once" - at least a week has passed (unless you were drinking a lot, as then they grow faster), almost no impact for you climbing skills.
"I had to cut nails twice" - you will not be able to do some things you did well before.
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"I had to cut nails five times" - you will get thoughts like "what I am doing here" while climbing.

England is funny but...

Sometimes she scares me...
So, happy new year. We are finally sober and drunk again, in the right course of the year so to say.
The stuff I wanted to tell you guys about was the travel we made in South England just before the new year. You wouldn't believe, but the weather was perfectly warm and nice, no strong winds or rains. Our brains were spelled with the magnificent views of the sea. I have never seen such a landscape - beautiful cliffs just above the sea and countryside landscapes on the other side. It is a hobbit land, it is. We felt like hobbits traveling with some mission. Well, Marius had to be a megahobbit, but it did not change the feeling.
The trees looked like women with long hair, who stand in the wind and keeping the hair with their arms so that they could see where they were going and stoned in this position through the ages.