Chaplog tries hard

Around Stoney Middleton

Is it just me or has someone used shaving cream to give her a beard?

How many times have you gone into a pay and display car park, left your car there for four hours, and on leaving are one pound thirty better off on the deal? Well not only did Lynne do that but she gave £1.00 to a strange man. My wife has money keeping skills that never fail to impress me.

It takes some explaining. To start with, the meter thing where you get your ticket had a number of coins stuck in it and there was only one machine in the car park.

There was a man hovering around looking devastated as he would be unable to buy a ticket as the only machine was jammed. Lynne strolled up, “did things” to the machine, and two pound coins jumped out like a slot machine that has just displayed two cherries and an orange. Now, the clever bit, she did not completely clear the machine but left it in a condition where we were still unable to pay. She returned the £1:00 to the man. We are one pound up. We leave a note in the car saying that the machine is jammed and we have been unable to buy a ticket. We now go for our ride that was the purpose for the visit in the first place. On our return to the car park Judy and I prepare our bikes for the journey home.

Lynne takes out a set of allen keys, now, as far as I am aware she has never used them on a bike and does not know how to. She ambles over to the machine and uses them to extract a further thirty pence. Respect. It is still unclear in my mind why, after we have finished the meal in the café, we have to ask Judy to pay the bill as we have not got enough money!

We had a warm ride in the slight drizzle around Stoney Middleton. The ride started at Eyam and passed through Foolow. Both villages were staging well dressing events.

In Foolow they were telling a story, to a small croud of umbrella owners, about John Wesley who travelled five thousand miles on a horse each year going from village to village. We live a tough life up here in the north

The highlight of the ride was the mud around the quarries. It stops bikes from working. if Lynne and Judy were not my wife and my sister I would show you photographs that would have outclassed Mary on the caked status.

They warned of quick sand on the notice, it looks worse than that to me

I am continuing to develop my window shopping skills with a digital camera. It is more the life style than the object that I desire here.

Candles do not seem to me things that you would roll your own

Posted by mikec at August 23, 2003 09:15 PM