Ignorance and understanding things.

[G2EWS]

It's all about lateral thinking.

If you learn or are taught lateral thinking it opens up a whole new world.

Regards

Chrisd

 

[ColinJ]

Hilarious story!

Bravo Colin, you've just given me an idea for a new form of exercise!

I must admit that when I look back on it now, I wonder why I didn't just buy a bike with the money I was wasting on beer! I could have been riding down to the Cotswolds or Malvern Hills on summer days, rather than sitting around in pub gardens getting sloshed. We live and learn, eh!

I once bet my mates that I could give up beer for a month. I did it but it was the most boring month of my life***. I went to the pub with them most nights and drank only orange juice. Listening to their drunken jokes and stories over and over again was a painful experience. I decided that I either had to find more interesting mates or start drinking beer again. Loyalty won ...

*** Since overtaken by the last month or so that I've spent in hospital and recuperating at home!

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

So did I. For instance - a sober mile is 1 mile in length, whereas a drunken mile can be anywhere from 2 to 5 miles in length! (Depends on the degree of staggering involved ...)

I once set off home on a Saturday night in the wrong direction and walked 2 miles before I realised my mistake. I then had to walk those 2 miles back again, and then the original 3 miles home. The trouble is, they were drunken miles so each one of them was about 2 miles in length. I meandered about 14 miles in total, taking me about 7 hours, getting home just before dawn and about 30 minutes before my family got up!

I did that once, but I had to walk about 10 miles just to start with.

 

[Globalti]

I
*** Since overtaken by the last month or so that I've spent in hospital and recuperating at home!

Eh? You've been in hospital? Why didn't you mention it on here? I'd have popped in with some grapes and a copy of Cycling Weakly. Are you OK now?

 

[ColinJ]

Eh? You've been in hospital? Why didn't you mention it on here? I'd have popped in with some grapes and a copy of Cycling Weakly. Are you OK now?

Ah, well, you need to look in the right places - either my status messages or potsy's 'GWS ColinJ' thread!

I did a 100 km hilly forum ride to Otley on the 15th July. By the 19th July I was starting to have breathing problems. On the 22nd, I was gasping for breath at the very start of the Cragg Vale climb. It just got worse and worse before I finally realised that this was not some chest infection that I'd get over in the usual fashion. I went for a chest x-ray in Todmorden and my left leg was swelling up and going purple on the way home, so I went straight to the GP who suspected what I feared - a DVT - and sent for an ambulance!

Short version - a pretty serious health problem (DVT/pulmonary embolism) which is responding well to Warfarin treatment!

I'm probably off my bike for the rest of this year, but aim to be doing as much walking as possible to get my legs working again.

 

[gbb]

Ah, well, you need to look in the right places - either my status messages or potsy's 'GWS ColinJ' thread!

I did a 100 km hilly forum ride to Otley on the 15th July. By the 19th July I was starting to have breathing problems. On the 22nd, I was gasping for breath at the very start of the Cragg Vale climb. It just got worse and worse before I finally realised that this was not some chest infection that I'd get over in the usual fashion. I went for a chest x-ray in Todmorden and my left leg was swelling up and going purple on the way home, so I went straight to the GP who suspected what I feared - a DVT - and sent for an ambulance!

Short version - a pretty serious health problem (DVT/pulmonary embolism) which is responding well to Warfarin treatment!

I'm probably off my bike for the rest of this year, but aim to be doing as much walking as possible to get my legs working again.

Cripes Colin ....missed all that somehow, GWS

 

[ColinJ]

Cripes Colin ....missed all that somehow, GWS

Cheers!

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Sometimes the possibility of doing certain stuff ourselves (like cycling as a means of transport or using a pallet lifter ) never enters your mind until you see somebody else doing it, and think " I could do that!"