Waiting

[Cush]

It is strange; by the time you reach your 71st year, you expect your self to be calm and composed and not be worried about anything that is coming up, not like what you felt when SWMBO was ready to give birth but delayed doing so or when you helped daughter to wait for her Uni application results. Yet here I am; I know I should get out and do my annual ride over Hartside, I know I should get on with both the back and front gardens, which are getting out of hand but I cannot be hassled with either. Why? Because on Wednesday I sent off my application to study for a Post Graduate Certificate in Creative Writing at Newcastle University and though I know that I will not get an answer for at least a week (maybe longer with the recent disruption there) I am like a cat that is watching a nasty boy with a catapult and will be until I get a yes or no result. Neither will be life threatening but "Yes" will mean twelve hard months of intense writing and expensive. "No" will mean bashing the tarmac with the bike for a few hours and then maybe settling down and getting a Rohloff geared bike.
Ah well just have to try and calm down.

 

[welsh dragon]

You know what they say "your never to old". Good for you for applying, and heres hoping you get a place. I'll keep my fingers crossed for you. Please let us know the outcome.

 

[stephec]

You're going up Hartside at your age?

That's impressive, are you going all the way to the cafe from Alston?

 

[Cycleops]

Good luck, just don't give up on the biking!

 

[Deleted member 23692]

Calm down with a (well earned) cuppa and piece of Mars Bar cake at Hartside. You know you want to

 

[tony111]

Cush, bet your like my eldest brother.He's in his seventies and instead of moaning about the kids in the street playing footy, he's out there with em. If he wasn't smaller than me I'd look up to him.

 

[Cush]

You're going up Hartside at your age?

That's impressive, are you going all the way to the cafe from Alston?

Stephec SWMBO is cutting the grass , so I have to wait to get to the flower bed. Yes I will be going up from the A69 side and dropping down to cross the Eden, probably at Armathwaite. I usually stop at the Cafe car park on the top but admit I normally have my own food.

 

[Cush]

Cush, bet your like my eldest brother.He's in his seventies and instead of moaning about the kids in the street playing footy, he's out there with em. If he wasn't smaller than me I'd look up to him.

Yes and when I wash the caravan if the kids are on holiday we normally finish up having a hose pipe fight ( usually started by me)

 

[stephec]

I've driven over quite a few times for work, it's a great road on a clear summers evening.

I like the look of riding down the hairpins from the cafe to Melmerby, just not the getting up to the cafe first though.

 

[Cush]

Tomorrow I pound the pedals down the Cumbria coast.Target (1) Maryport (2) Whitehaven (3)Ravenglass (4)Millom Why BECAUSE MY PG APPLICATION HAS BEEN ACCEPTED AND I NEED TO COME DOWN TO EARTH. Seriously there is a lot of work to be done between now and term starting in September. It will be strange, the last time I was regarded as being in full time education was July 1958 but HEY this is like tomorrows ride one Helluva challenge. Only thing is I can not do as the other students will be doing, getting Hans and List and laying every thing with loose knicker elastic SWMBO will give me detention if she catches me.

 

[stephec]

Nice one Cush.