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Sunday 24 June 2018

A scooter...

and the week ahead.
The floor tiles are coming tomorrow, all well and good.
There is one small problem, well to call it small is the understatement.  The tiler is huge  added to which he talks a lot.  Although I enjoy goss like the next person I do have a low boredom threshold when it comes to  chat.  There is a lot of preparatory work to be done levelling floors, removing shelves in the pantry, moving furniture upstairs and so on.  All this accompanied by a touch of the verbals!  Oh and not to mention the DUST!
I have been threatening to get away, a holiday on the coast or some such!?!  A good idea until I suddenly realise I now live on the coast so perhaps, not such a cunning plan?
For a while now I have been thinking of getting a scooter.  No not the type the mods used to ride 
kitted out in parkas with fur 
around the hood and cuffs, but the sort you had as a child.
Husband has been trying to put me off by saying that I will develop one leg more than the other, then find myself walking round in circles!  I countered this with saying I would scoot to Folkestone pushing with my right leg and then my left to return,  Sounds like a very good plan to me!  He is not so sure?  Anyway to cut a long story short and with the very real need to get away from the building chaos this next week and beyond I have ordered myself a scooter.  My plan is to scoot along the prom to the Harbour Arm, Folkestone, order a flute of champagne and sit looking out to sea.  Overtones of the French Lieutenants Woman on the Cobb in Lyme Regis, minus the cloak obviously!  It would surely hamper my progress if the wind filled it.  Added to which it 
might get into the wheels and shoot me into the sea.  

  

10 comments:

  1. You'll get very hot scooting in this sunshine! Take lots of water with you :D

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    1. Can’t wait! At least it is flat all the way and not too busy... yet!

      LX

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  2. Hello from Idaho stop in from Heron view. Sure hope your floor project goes well.
    If you find the time stop in for a cup of coffee.

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    1. Ummm... Hythe to Idaho, quite a trek... exciting though! Best I start planning my route and you put the coffee pot on the stove in readiness!

      LX

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  3. Hope your next post is not about the broken leg/arm/collar bone!?
    Have fun!

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    1. Not sure whether to wear my cycle helmet bought for our holiday last year in the Loire valley? That trip could have been a post... the trials and tribulations of cycling for the first time in 300 years, the pair of us. Not to mention the cystitis!!!

      The pickles I get is into?

      LX

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  4. What fun!! I watch my grandkids on their scooters and wish I could do it too.... Tried it once and felt most unsafe though !

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    1. I remember on our first Christmas day here, on the prom, waylaying a man on his scooter... like you do!?! So it really isn’t a passing fancy!

      LX

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  5. I'm ungainly on two legs, let along on a scooter, but best of luck, old bean!
    Margaret P

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    1. I have no doubt there will be a post on my ‘Have Scooter will Travel,’ exploits, just don’t hold your breath. I can trip the light fantastic, with the best of them, I’ll have you know old fruit!

      LX


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