Well, we’re into our second week of the new year and it’s already filling up with stuff. I appear to only have two spare weekends between now and the end of March. And of course I’ll book something in for those weekends because they’re free. A bit like climbers climb mountains because they’re there, I seem to fill weekends because otherwise they’d be empty.
What I forget, though, is the joy of getting to Friday night and then working out what to do with the weekend. Will the evenings be spent in the pub and the days spent trying to perfect the ultimate crusty cheese roll? Or will there be spontaneous decisions to drive to north Wales, or the Yorkshire Moors, find a B&B and get out and get lost? Or will I just decide to read a book, have an early night and a full day of riding in the great hills around my Yorkshire home?
The Penny Steps, a couple of miles from my house.
Well, I’ll never know if I keep taking off to places now, will I? How will I find that hilltop linking track, or see a new trail I’d never noticed because I usually speed by too fast? I’m going to get the wallplanner down now - the one that governs my every waking moment throughout the year, and mark off a few weekends of ‘me’ time. I’ll have an ‘exploring from my house’ weekend, a ‘going somewhere stupid’ weekend and a ‘having an old schoolfriend to stay’ weekends I think. But then those weekends won’t truly be free, will they? OK, one more then. I’ll have a weekend of ‘absolutely nothingness’. I’ll tell everyone I’m riding in Portugal or somewhere, they’ll believe that. Then I’ll see if I can rediscover the lost art of pottering around…
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January 9th, 2007 at 8:27 pm
“having an old schoolfriend to stay”
I read that as “having an old girlfriend to stay”.
Silly me