Dear friends and family and those who have stumbled across my random witterings and are hooked on learning more about the life that I have. Tuesday 21st September my middle bro's birthday. Happy Birthday Will.
Today I have seen and heard things that I have not come across before some good and some not so good. So the good ones first so we can build to the not so good, and then gently deflate like a balloon faded and jaded caught on a telephone wire after being released in the vague hope that it will circumnavigate the world and land in a place where someone just happens to, a) read English and b) have enough credit on their phone to dial the unusually long number on the once shiny tag. Instead the releaser of the balloon stares at their creation but 20ft away suspended, out of reach and awaiting its destiny from the next puff of wind. They wish it well, hoping that tomorrow it is gone and then amble off with a sense of......Actually that makes me sad, so the good news wins always.
First the hearing dog, i have seen guide dogs aplenty and read much about hearing and sensing dogs but not been able to rub the ears of one and tickle its tummy at 28000ft whilst flying to Edinburgh this morning! It was one of those things that you started to think, I hope it is plane trained, what if, how does it equalise the pressure in its ears? and many other thoughts went through my mind as I sat reading Cycling Active.
Then as my mind wandered back to the page I turn it over to see an advert for the Surly Long Haul Trucker (Georgie's bike Sally with slight editing by her bike builders colleagues) and also a Pashley Poppy (Georgies get around town bike which I have often strolled alongside or at one time held out the house keys from my car window as she deftly negotiated traffic, grabbed the keys and raced me home). Makes me smile alot.
Then after a day which consisted of many meetings, phone calls, emails, frustrations, a quick read of her blog update, job offer, meetings and more phone calls, I headed off to the hotel for tonight. I bashed out just under 6 miles cycling in the 20 minutes I had before I need to be back in the room changed and out to dinner. Back to the room, sweaty but elated - better times than last week, I completed my ablutions before thinking - teeth must clean them - they have been up since 4am and it is now 7.20pm. Urgh! I turned on the tap, no water from sink, oh no some numpty had pulled out the pipes and water was now gushing over the floor and I mean gushing, Brain help me and tap was turned off. I pulled my just showered towel off the closed toilet seat to mop the floor (so considerate) before calling reception, and with the towel came the entire toilet seat including assembly! OK - I need to get out of here. 1 manager visit later I am now in the complete access room, as they have called it.
So I sit on a slightly lower chair with a desk in proportion, so no Ronny Corbit impersonations tonight. However I did have a story relayed to me at work today about a call from 3 mobile and it went something like this.....'Hi, I am so glad to have finally got hold of you sir, can I ask who is speaking?' - My name is irrelevant how did you....' 'I am sorry sir, but can you spell that for me...'
So tonight I had a different dining experience but nonetheless great company and I managed not to spend the entire night talking about me. But as for reminders as I looked down the list of starters I could not help but smile and order - 'duck roles with a Vietnamese dressing'
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