I had a kinda weird happening on the way to work…I cut down a small single track lane to avoid going past the Comprehensive School in the next village. There is a blind bend on it and a hump back bridge and I have often thought that if I met someone on the bridge it could be nasty. The bend is just about wide enough to get two cars through. So anyway, this morning, I am pootling along, before the bend and this pigeon is sat in the road (btw, the road is Pigeon House Lane). It doesn’t move as I approach. I sit and wait, inching towards it. It just sits there. So I beep my horn and after a second or two it flies off. Funny, I thought, wouldn’t it be odd if that avoided a crash for me, haha? Next thing, this blue sports car hurtles round the bend, just as I get to it. I manage to avoid it because of it widening out on the apex and he does a speed wobble. If the pigeon hadn’t stopped me I would have been on the humped back bridge and it would have been a head on. Weird huh?
I'm thinking of becoming an Ayn Rand-ist myself. Did anyone see that documentary last night about her/computers and the state of the economy generally? Most fascinating thing I've seen for a long time.
Toe to toe Dancing very close Barely breathing Almost comatose Wall to wall People hypnotized And they're stepping lightly Hang each night in Rapture
Back to back Sacroiliac Spineless movement And a wild attack
Face to face Sadly solitude And it's finger popping Twenty-four hour shopping in Rapture
Fab Five Freddie told me everybody's high DJ's spinnin' are savin' my mind Flash is fast, Flash is cool Francois sez fas, Flashe' no do And you don't stop, sure shot Go out to the parking lot And you get in your car and you drive real far And you drive all night and then you see a light And it comes right down and lands on the ground And out comes a man from Mars And you try to run but he's got a gun And he shoots you dead and he eats your head And then you're in the man from Mars You go out at night, eatin' cars You eat Cadillacs, Lincolns too Mercurys and Subarus And you don't stop, you keep on eatin' cars Then, when there's no more cars You go out at night and eat up bars where the people meet Face to face, dance cheek to cheek One to one, man to man Dance toe to toe Don't move to slow, 'cause the man from Mars Is through with cars, he's eatin' bars Yeah, wall to wall, door to door, hall to hall He's gonna eat 'em all Rapture, be pure Take a tour, through the sewer Don't strain your brain, paint a train You'll be singin' in the rain I said don't stop, to punk rock
Well now you see what you wanna be Just have your party on TV 'Cause the man from Mars won't eat up bars when the TV's on And now he's gone back up to space Where he won't have a hassle with the human race And you hip-hop, and you don't stop Just blast off, sure shot 'Cause the man from Mars stopped eatin' cars and eatin' bars And now he only eats guitars, get up!
According to a salty old sea dog I was talking to on Liverpool Docks on Sunday, this wind should ease off sometime today. <looks out of the window anxiously and doubts it very much>
I really like the Trot and have now done all 8 of them- well organised, friendly club and it has been my PB course for most of my running career. Only downside was the lack of hot water in the showers
I thought of Jeff the other day - I was walking past one of those fish eating your feet places. Bizarre on so many levels - grown women just sitting there with their feet in fish tanks. Do they realise how weird that looks? And the window into the shop was ordinary, floor length glass. So of course there were spectators. Fish Nibbling Feet as a spectator sport?
Hello from sunny Mouseland. Today we are a tad grumpy as we have tried to call in our policy for mending the boiler and it's never quite what they said it would be, is it?
I don't think I wrote a race report for the Swashbuckler, Crashie, a couple of lines on the thread maybe. Possiblly a small bit on the Wing. Will see what I can find.
"..Aside from that, I'm tired and hungry. Swashbuckler report - the swim was hard (tidal) and the bike course was windy and I hated it. I felt lumpen and slow. However, I felt the strongest I've ever felt running off the bike (either at Bala, Germany or from big brick sessions). The usual whinges though, I feel fat and slow, you'd think I'd eat less pork pies as a result really.... alas not I had pizza for dinner last night.."
And a response to a comment from Min about not making a meal of it (cos she didn't know I was even doing it):
"..Min - I think it's a midpoint between 'just getting on and doing it' and 'not having 5 fkn minutes to tell anyone about it (yet alone fret!)'. I will confess, I didn't feel particularly ready for a middle distance at this stage in training and I did most of the bike course on the premis (sp) that I wasn't going to run because I CBA and then kinda got off the bike and started running. I'm also doing Copenhagen in August, if I don't get time to mention it between now and then...."
Race report from Swash thread:
I have swashed in disguise!
Met Gladys and Meface - thanks for saying hello chaps. Introduced self to Happychap in the water at the start! Saw Henny a couple of times and Henny and Trogs again at the car loading up.
Hard day for me, that swim is tough, and then we had headwinds EVERYWHERE! Felt improved in some areas though, def an improvement on Bala 2009 in terms of being comfortable on the run and having something left.
Oh and I am such a donut.
Nobody told me the water is salty. I got in, almost got straight out again!
Ah, who'da thought it - saltwater in a tidal wash. Praps you should start washing your hands prior to getting into Open Water, in a Southern slaves on rice plantations kinda way?
I have spent almost 2 hours playing on my MTB in Caesars camp. I found some cows there too - I didnt know there were any cows so I was a little suprised. It was good fun, and far less nerve wracking than it would have been on the road where a gusting crosswind is liable to blow you under a bus at any time.
Min - yeah, I think it just looks pretty gross. At best, surely it tickles like hell?!
The Wockette is DESPERATE to go and have her feet nibbled by fish ( imagine that being said in a over-dramatic small girl voice and you'll get the full idea) but I'm less enthusiastic.
MIn - time to be nice to birds. Not your time to have a head on collison, I'd suggest. Or a nice scare for the person in the other car?
I have unbooked my full week off next week. I shall have to come in to work and mark on Wednesday which is a bummer, but on the other hand I will get paid extra for it as the contract runs out before I can actually take any summer holiday. Still no news on who has a job next year. Please keep your fingers crossed.
Crashie - well run. Must be about time to get ill?
For a singing bass, I think the largemouth bass would be the best bet. I'm not sure what sort of accent they have, what with generally living underwater.
Not been raptured here either (or not that i've noticed)
Fingers crossed Wotsit Mouse - sounds like you toughed it out - thank u for the cut & pasting. Boo to the boiler policy - insurance policies suck SVT - ah well, perhaps your numberswill come up or something
I have been keeping my head down at work although I was praised today by someone giving a financial report to governors on Thursday - I did ask him to say nice things about me!
Off to Nottingham now for HLad to do some more regional tennis stuff tomorrow - at least I don't have to be at work
No harm in reminding people what a good job you do, HL.
I read the other day that Ryan Giggs is sometimes homesick; apparently he loves Manchester, but he does miss Wales from time to time. (I'm not explaining that in public)
Moving on to a joke, apparently Chelsea have signed Kate McCann as their new manager. Roman Abramovich said 'she has an excellent track record; she'sonly lost one in Europe...'
Thing I don't get is even I can see that Mrs Giggs is gawjuss - why would you stray?
What Mr C said, HL.
Hope the boiler is sorted soon Mouse - nightmare, but at least it is summer, which somehow makes it better than it being a winter problem, even though it isn't your heating....
And in other news; it seems, after tax, I take home £5 less a week for 4 days than 5. Given that it costs me more than a fiver to get here, I am considering asking for a 4 day week. However, having only been here 2 weeks, that seems a bit cheeky! But the workload is ridiculously light and I know I could do it in 4. I could do it one, if I'm honest.BUT - don't want to talk myself out of a job completely....
I think I'd use the time making myself indispensible/networking/making friends/generally being very obliging, so that if anything permanent comes up...
Comments
Rapture was very uneventful in North Wales.
I had a kinda weird happening on the way to work…I cut down a small single track lane to avoid going past the Comprehensive School in the next village. There is a blind bend on it and a hump back bridge and I have often thought that if I met someone on the bridge it could be nasty. The bend is just about wide enough to get two cars through. So anyway, this morning, I am pootling along, before the bend and this pigeon is sat in the road (btw, the road is Pigeon House Lane). It doesn’t move as I approach. I sit and wait, inching towards it. It just sits there. So I beep my horn and after a second or two it flies off. Funny, I thought, wouldn’t it be odd if that avoided a crash for me, haha? Next thing, this blue sports car hurtles round the bend, just as I get to it. I manage to avoid it because of it widening out on the apex and he does a speed wobble. If the pigeon hadn’t stopped me I would have been on the humped back bridge and it would have been a head on. Weird huh?
It's a sign! Nice lucky escape, Minners!
Post-rapture Worcestershire much the same as pre-rapture Worcestershire; maybe it's because I'm an Odinist?
Dancing very close
Barely breathing
Almost comatose
Wall to wall
People hypnotized
And they're stepping lightly
Hang each night in Rapture
Back to back
Sacroiliac
Spineless movement
And a wild attack
Face to face
Sadly solitude
And it's finger popping
Twenty-four hour shopping in Rapture
Fab Five Freddie told me everybody's high
DJ's spinnin' are savin' my mind
Flash is fast, Flash is cool
Francois sez fas, Flashe' no do
And you don't stop, sure shot
Go out to the parking lot
And you get in your car and you drive real far
And you drive all night and then you see a light
And it comes right down and lands on the ground
And out comes a man from Mars
And you try to run but he's got a gun
And he shoots you dead and he eats your head
And then you're in the man from Mars
You go out at night, eatin' cars
You eat Cadillacs, Lincolns too
Mercurys and Subarus
And you don't stop, you keep on eatin' cars
Then, when there's no more cars
You go out at night and eat up bars where the people meet
Face to face, dance cheek to cheek
One to one, man to man
Dance toe to toe
Don't move to slow, 'cause the man from Mars
Is through with cars, he's eatin' bars
Yeah, wall to wall, door to door, hall to hall
He's gonna eat 'em all
Rapture, be pure
Take a tour, through the sewer
Don't strain your brain, paint a train
You'll be singin' in the rain
I said don't stop, to punk rock
Well now you see what you wanna be
Just have your party on TV
'Cause the man from Mars won't eat up bars when the TV's on
And now he's gone back up to space
Where he won't have a hassle with the human race
And you hip-hop, and you don't stop
Just blast off, sure shot
'Cause the man from Mars stopped eatin' cars and eatin' bars
And now he only eats guitars, get up!
Morning Few
Hogweed Trot last night - quite windy, so not too disappointed with my time
Good old pigeon
According to a salty old sea dog I was talking to on Liverpool Docks on Sunday, this wind should ease off sometime today. <looks out of the window anxiously and doubts it very much>
Be very careful around salty seamen...
In the spirit of being nice to myself, I managed to run 25 miles last week over my five planned runs; week 1, on course, on time.
Mousers, well swashbuckled; I shall track down a report later...
Muskers, what's the Trot like? Have idly pondered once or twice, but never done...
Only downside was the lack of hot water in the showers
Excellent work, Crashie.
I thought of Jeff the other day - I was walking past one of those fish eating your feet places. Bizarre on so many levels - grown women just sitting there with their feet in fish tanks. Do they realise how weird that looks? And the window into the shop was ordinary, floor length glass. So of course there were spectators. Fish Nibbling Feet as a spectator sport?
No hot water is a bit rubbish, Musky.
No hot water in the showers? That's disgraceful in this day and age. Nothing like the Slog... oh, hang on...
(In fairness the water was actually lukewarm last year, which is a welcome improvement on the usual 'barely liquid'.)
Hello from sunny Mouseland. Today we are a tad grumpy as we have tried to call in our policy for mending the boiler and it's never quite what they said it would be, is it?
I don't think I wrote a race report for the Swashbuckler, Crashie, a couple of lines on the thread maybe. Possiblly a small bit on the Wing. Will see what I can find.
Race type comments from other threads:
"..Aside from that, I'm tired and hungry. Swashbuckler report - the swim was hard (tidal) and the bike course was windy and I hated it. I felt lumpen and slow. However, I felt the strongest I've ever felt running off the bike (either at Bala, Germany or from big brick sessions). The usual whinges though, I feel fat and slow, you'd think I'd eat less pork pies as a result really.... alas not I had pizza for dinner last night.."
And a response to a comment from Min about not making a meal of it (cos she didn't know I was even doing it):
"..Min - I think it's a midpoint between 'just getting on and doing it' and 'not having 5 fkn minutes to tell anyone about it (yet alone fret!)'. I will confess, I didn't feel particularly ready for a middle distance at this stage in training and I did most of the bike course on the premis (sp) that I wasn't going to run because I CBA and then kinda got off the bike and started running. I'm also doing Copenhagen in August, if I don't get time to mention it between now and then...."
Race report from Swash thread:
I have swashed in disguise!
Met Gladys and Meface - thanks for saying hello chaps. Introduced self to Happychap in the water at the start! Saw Henny a couple of times and Henny and Trogs again at the car loading up.
Hard day for me, that swim is tough, and then we had headwinds EVERYWHERE! Felt improved in some areas though, def an improvement on Bala 2009 in terms of being comfortable on the run and having something left.
Oh and I am such a donut.
Nobody told me the water is salty. I got in, almost got straight out again!
Ah, who'da thought it - saltwater in a tidal wash. Praps you should start washing your hands prior to getting into Open Water, in a Southern slaves on rice plantations kinda way?
I have spent almost 2 hours playing on my MTB in Caesars camp. I found some cows there too - I didnt know there were any cows so I was a little suprised. It was good fun, and far less nerve wracking than it would have been on the road where a gusting crosswind is liable to blow you under a bus at any time.
Min - yeah, I think it just looks pretty gross. At best, surely it tickles like hell?!
The Wockette is DESPERATE to go and have her feet nibbled by fish ( imagine that being said in a over-dramatic small girl voice and you'll get the full idea) but I'm less enthusiastic.
MIn - time to be nice to birds. Not your time to have a head on collison, I'd suggest. Or a nice scare for the person in the other car?
I have unbooked my full week off next week. I shall have to come in to work and mark on Wednesday which is a bummer, but on the other hand I will get paid extra for it as the contract runs out before I can actually take any summer holiday. Still no news on who has a job next year. Please keep your fingers crossed.
Crashie - well run. Must be about time to get ill?
Personally, I have spent many years carefully nurturing the hard skin on my feet to avoid blisterage and I have no desire for fish to nibble it off!
WMS; she's wise.
SVT, that model will be long since discontinued by the time you've saved up; its replacement will be more expensive; life's like that...
Crashie - fact. To both.
Maybe I'll just go for a regular sea bass - the freshwater ones have to be imported from the US, I believe.
Afternoon all!
Not been raptured here either (or not that i've noticed)
Fingers crossed Wotsit
Mouse - sounds like you toughed it out - thank u for the cut & pasting. Boo to the boiler policy - insurance policies suck
SVT - ah well, perhaps your numberswill come up or something
I have been keeping my head down at work although I was praised today by someone giving a financial report to governors on Thursday - I did ask him to say nice things about me!
Off to Nottingham now for HLad to do some more regional tennis stuff tomorrow - at least I don't have to be at work
Shame I didn't know about the Trot as it's close to work.
Ooh, get you with your 'job'
No harm in reminding people what a good job you do, HL.
I read the other day that Ryan Giggs is sometimes homesick; apparently he loves Manchester, but he does miss Wales from time to time. (I'm not explaining that in public)
Moving on to a joke, apparently Chelsea have signed Kate McCann as their new manager. Roman Abramovich said 'she has an excellent track record; she'sonly lost one in Europe...'
Baboomtish, Crashie!
Thing I don't get is even I can see that Mrs Giggs is gawjuss - why would you stray?
What Mr C said, HL.
Hope the boiler is sorted soon Mouse - nightmare, but at least it is summer, which somehow makes it better than it being a winter problem, even though it isn't your heating....
And in other news; it seems, after tax, I take home £5 less a week for 4 days than 5. Given that it costs me more than a fiver to get here, I am considering asking for a 4 day week. However, having only been here 2 weeks, that seems a bit cheeky! But the workload is ridiculously light and I know I could do it in 4. I could do it one, if I'm honest.BUT - don't want to talk myself out of a job completely....