Back when I was young me and the missus spent months in a shitty van traveling around. Back then you could rock up outside the airport and find a van with the keys and paperwork and a note saying to take it as the previous owner had left.
Don’t get me wrong, we have good days too but the weather can change in a heartbeat here. It’s what catches most people out, especially on the mountain, too many people head out thinking it’s a nice day then the weather changes, cold wet and zero visibility. Easy to get tired, lost and confused and needing to call mountain rescue only too find out they were only 10 minutes away from the car park.
I remember biking years ago in Wanaka and climbing at hang dog in golden bay on the south island. Beautiful place, can’t wait to go back, take my kids. It’s just so far away.
I don’t know where you live but the Scottish Highlands can produce some seriously “fuck this” weather. When you’re still hours away from home and the sleet and winds pick up, your soaked to the bone and hands too cold to pull the brakes, you look back on it with more fondness than you felt at the time.
We call this type 2 fun. It might not the most fun at the time but once you’re off the hill and having a pint you say it was the best time ever, because you survived.
Also allows to I’ve climbing and skiing.
I can’t put into words how much I despise bananas.
Luckily every single banana plant is a clone so it’s likely that one single blight will wipe them all out.
No if I can just figure out how to create a blight.
Absolutly none. Can’t stand bananas. Need to wash my hands after peeling them for my kids when they were young.
Think it’s the weird texture.
And also the awful flavour.
I’m an industrial radiographer and every year I have to have a rad medical. And every year the doctor asks if I’ve been busy and I say yes and they say “but your tld badge readings show you have had almost no exposure.”.
To which I reply, “that’s because I know where the radiation is and hide from it. If I were standing in front of the the ‘bomb’ I’d be dead instead of sat here.”