How’s this for starters Minx…
Cute + complicated, innovative, paradoxical, frivolous.
That’s such a beautiful gesture! How generous and thoughtful of you. At which stage in them there moors did you have some regrets?
See, that wasn’t so bad!
Glad you approve.
Didn’t say that I approve, lots of contradictions
No regrets Minx, did I mention ‘Tenacious’…?
Failure has never been an option…Except the once…
Ok, I’ll bite… explain the one failure?
So deep d00d…I had to look a couple of those up…
You’re not the only one… I’m still trying to marry the contradictions. I must say, an intriguing character though
Can you top my most adventurous thing?
I don’t know if I could do that Minx…:shock:…Respect!..
It’s really quite simple, you take a deep breath and backflip into the air, gravity does the rest. You’ve given me an idea for a new thread - ‘what’s the most adventurous thing you’ve ever done’ thank you.
I’ve never been a fast walker, and one bright Saturday morning I turned up to compete in a 53 mile run/walk called ‘The Crosses’…I had arranged to do the event with a couple of friends, the only problem was, they weren’t runners.
I walked with them for ten miles but found their walking pace very fast and for me, uncomfortable. I left them at twenty miles and began to run. As darkness descended I lost the way and had to refer to map and compass, just about the same time as the heavens opened.
I struggled through tall wet grass up to my waist in the dark, and stumbled over waterlogged moors with cold wet feet, I eventually scaled a four foot barbed wire fence, that took my glove, and was spat out onto the road at the bottom of a steep hill…
I suddenly realised where I was, I also realised that I should have come out at the top of the hill…
I approached a pub and decided to call my wife (long before the days of mobile phones) To hear her voice might have given me fresh inspiration. As I entered the pub the chatter stopped and all eyes were suddenly on this swamp rat, muddy, and soaked to the skin in just shorts, running shoes and waterproof top…I asked the bartender if there was a phone on the premises I could use, he said there wasn’t, so embarrassed and tired, I turned and left…
It was another half an hour before I reached the checkpoint at the top of the hill, the rain had stopped and my friends were just about to leave “Grab a quick drink and we will wait for you” they said, but I knew in my heart that this was end, so I wished them well and took off my tally and handed it in…
I returned the following year and ran it solo, after recce it earlier in the year.
13 hours and tenth position was the outcome…
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Your welcome Minx, you’ll get fed up with me…
Oh my word, what a nightmare! That bartender was not very nice to you! In hindsight, you should have walked with the group. I agree though, it’s hard to keep a fast walking pace if you’re a runner-you just want to kick into a run- better rhythm :surprised:
Not at all sly fox. I’ve started the new thread, should be interesting
Or smoke a fag…
:hug:
tenacious dramatic humble strong optomist
Sounds perfect to me…Just a pity we’re both in relationships…