- Notice I am wearing my Boston Red Sox T-shirt that was most generously sent me by Dan Leone, a god among men. He informs me that they were the winners of the 2007 World Series. It’s strange, but I don’t recall the United Kingdom having an entry in this international tournament. Perhaps we were knocked out in the early stages; we usually are.
I have yet to build up the courage to inform Dan that his team have made an error in the printing of all their merchandise. You would have thought that someone would have noticed they misspelt “socks” by now. - I was initially concerned that Amy’s reluctance to walk at anything faster than 0.1mph would hold back the hike. However I needn’t have worried as it appears Paul travels at a net speed of 0.09mph due to feeling compelled to stop every three meters to photograph pieces of wood.
- Oli brought his walking stick with him, and I was rather surprised that it did not appear to make him look like a prat. I am increasingly tempted to apologize to Greg so he’ll send me that customized, collapsible, titanium trekking pole with a ruby eyed Bucky the Marmoset head on it that he got me for Christmas.
- This was the first official outing of the walkie-talkies I bought in November. We gained much enjoyment messing around with them, although mine didn’t seem to work properly and the others deliberately changed frequency of theirs without telling me. The bastards.
- Dave chose to prove his manliness to us by forgoing the offer of a lift to the starting point and walking four and a half miles from his home before we even began. He was pretty quick to accept a lift back though so it appears his testosterone only holds out for about eight miles. I’m pretty sure his voice was getting higher towards the end too.
Cross posted at The Dales Walk blog
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on Jan 2nd, 2008 at 7:41 pm
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on Jan 3rd, 2008 at 10:31 am
my parents tend to drag them along on almost every walk they make..
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on Jan 3rd, 2008 at 4:16 pm
It’s a walkie-talkie! I just thought Oli was picking his nose.
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on Jan 3rd, 2008 at 5:41 pm
Except I don’t know a single cricket team.
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on Jan 3rd, 2008 at 10:00 pm
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on Jan 4th, 2008 at 12:27 am
I thought that I’d been snapped picking my nose, but I’m glad to see that I was using the walkie talkie, and as was rightly pointed out, Dan was ignoring me.
To be fair to him though, his kept distorting both the sending and receiving of pointless messages, and we found it was a lot easier just to talk/shout to each other. Then the batteries went dead.
And Whit – shush!
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on Jan 4th, 2008 at 2:44 am
Nobody. Walks. In. L.A. They look at you funny if you do…
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on Jan 6th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
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on Jan 6th, 2008 at 8:28 pm
The Dogs shot is a common problem when taking photos of men walking. Especially at weddings when they’re all in suits too.
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