Thursday, 3 September 2009

Walkers don't mind weather

  1. It gives opportunities
    1. If good, worry about distance
    2. if showery worry about the merits of gore-tex
    3. if like today do alternatives
      1. plan to go to edinburgh
      2. have a long bath hoping stiff legs will be better soon
      3. cancel trip to edinburgh as A1 and train line both flooded
      4. go to Seahouses and eat fish and chips
      5. visit the amazing Barter books in the old Alnwick railway station
      6. visit the Grace Darling Lifeboat museum and witness really crap weather from the observation gallery
      7. wonder why the RNLI issued 23 gallantry medals to women, mostly in the latter half of the 19th century, and 3 since 2004, but none in the century between!
      8. marvel at the fact that lots of 1800s tough action was done by women - like dragging a lifeboat across 3 miles of beach to launch it in a storm
    4. whatever, go for dinner in an amazingly cosy bar/restaurant in the Victoria Hotel
  2. it might change tomorrow!
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    2 comments:

    Alasdair Honeyman said...

    I think you mean fush and chups

    4 September 2009 at 15:22
    Nick Booth said...

    Well this is a dialectical comment. In New Zealand Fush and Chups may be right, but in Northumberland it is more or less impossible to illustrate the accent using text. I ought to explore the possiblility of getting sound-bytes up on the blog. In the meantime you should practice pronouncing Coquet (as in the River Coquet) in an Amble accent. Best wav or mp3 gets a pint of Tyneside Blonde!

    6 September 2009 at 09:47

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