Posted by alan truelove on March 26, 2009 at 19:51:05 user atruelove.
(I'm sure this name has been discussed..)
Reading the autobiography of Q - Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch [Oxford Book of English Verse, etc] when he went with his Oxford friends in the late 1800's for a 'reading' party in the Lakes, they stayed with 'farmer Tyson'. They combined their intense studies with afternoons of rock-climbing. This agreeable habit seemed to have died out in my student day ('53-).