A list scrawled at 1am on a train home, despondent yet clear-headed and conscious that with a 24 hour mountain bike race tomorrow, I really ought to be sleeping right now.
- Sometimes a 9 hour round trip to find out what you could have learned in a 15 minute phone call is worth it.
- Sometimes you need to be told something face to face before you can accept that that is what you thought all along.
- I like my expeditions and projects simple. Difficult in execution but simple enough to be planned in one evening on one piece of paper.
- I wish that I had a river beside my house for all visitors to swim across as a rite of passage.
Hi Al,
An old Army phrase that “Time spent in reconnaissance is seldom wasted” reminds me that your 9 hour trip was probably good reconnaissance. Better to do that than to end of on a disastrous expedition.
Hope the mountain bike race goes well.
Will
when you’ve got a castle you can have a moat. for now why not replace your stairs with monkey bars?
that’s very deep! (Actually a bit too deep for me to quite understand…?!) :-)
Sorry, I meant having a river by your house to get your visitors soggy sounds to me a bit like a moat.
Monkey bars have always appealed to me an a good alternative to stairs. Imagine how strong your arms would be if you had to do that each time you go up to bed? I’m just jabbering nonsense…
haha! So not deep at all then!
Haha! Monkey bars are awesome Pete, but I’m sure dinner guests wouldn’t approve if the only toilet was ‘up the bars’.
Great post as always Alastair! ;-)