Thornbury files

[Tom K]

If I offered a girlfriend a shoppig trip, and she requested a sailing trip instead, she would gain enough gf points to do what the hell she fancied for a very long time after.

This may be the worlds only cake and eat it moment!

[Hayley_Trim]

If I offered a girlfriend a shoppig trip, and she requested a sailing trip instead, she would gain enough gf points to do what the hell she fancied for a very long time after.

Shhh. Best keep that between us mate. Don't want you leaving yourself wide open to feminine exploitation. Or then again, maybe you do...
Thanks for the insight.

[paul_croote]

If it was my Sarah in a similar scenario I am sure she would go with the "I should expressly reserve the right to go shopping on another occasion" option

[Neil C.]

If I offered to take Mrs C. shopping, but she said she wanted to come sailing with me instead, I'd be even more suspicious than she would be if I came home from work with a bunch of flowers for no obvious reason...

[Graham Bridle]

<< Cant believe Roland knows what shopping is ?

[tim_unerman]

<< Cant believe Roland knows what shopping is ?

Does might be thinking shopping is going to B&Q or similar!

[Hayley_Trim]

Well he suggested going to Bath, but i'm fairly sure he wasn't thinking of the plumbers merchants...

[simon_jones]

If Kerrie said she would like to go sailing, I would know that alien abductions don't only happen on Cherubs. To her credit she dosen't like shopping either.

[Hayley_Trim]

Mr Kiddle, you were quite right. A distinct case of having my cake and eating it (although not yet literally - see below). A most successful weekend included the best kind of shoppping trip - one where the desired item is found and purchased within half an hour and you can go home - and a breeze at Thornbury that built to a 4-5 and sent Born Slippy on a couple of epic airborne kite runs.  A sail that should keep me grinning well into the new year if it turns out to be the last of 2011.

I now know what to put in my letter to Santa this year - some new sailing gloves please, I appear to be missing a few layers of skin. Oh, and some decent rope to go in my trapeze adjusters - I keep forgetting to change the dental floss that Andrew's crew put on her at the nationals and my language became positively blue after unexpectedly dropping to the knots for the third time. 

As for the cake part, Sunday evening was spent baking in order to keep with that bizarre tradition of taking cake to work for your colleagues on your birthday. Can't help thinking that's the wrong way round, but at least I can guarantee quality cake! But Nigella has clearly not tried sailing before baking - whisk until the mixture is light and airy indeed. Ouch.

So I haven't yet done the cake eating part, but we did pick up a fantastic piece of stilton from favourite cheese shop in Bath, so we had cheese before bedtime instead 

[phil_kirk]

No sailing weekend for me.

Antenatal class all Saturday (my biology is improving but I feel vindicated for choosing Physics and chemistry for GCSE).  Decorating has expanded to all upstairs doors.  I then had an ent class AGM on Sunday.  Sarah meanwhile had a very productive shopping trip and got some more baby related things on special offer. 

[Hayley_Trim]

A whole Saturday of antenatal classes? I expect you to be qualified to deliver Kirklet single handed now!

[Andrew Whapshott]

Sorry about the "dental floss" not sure why they were changed. The original elastic rope went in your rope bag or somewhere similar.. not sure..  It's about though..

[roland_trim]

Still grinning from the weekend.

Born Slippy in force 4+ simply feels like being connected to the wind - then you add the speed humps. As H said the outing started tame and then the wind filled in. Thornbury in those conditions rocks.

The only negatives were the 2x capsizes caused by me forgetting to let of the kicker before gybing and that I look like I've had a session with the grumpy headmaster. Impressive bruise line across the back of my thighs from hiking out the back of the bus and going wave jumping 

[JimC]

some new sailing gloves please, I appear to be missing a few layers of skin.

On serious breeze days I used to put a couple of layers of PVC tape round the second and third phalanges of the first and third fingers under the gloves (and leaving the joints free of tape)  and it made a big difference to the skin damage without really affecting movement.

[Will_Lee]

Babies are fussy about decor, eh?