Ah, progress...
Creative is for the write up @jjraak"Month 14 of my Cruise
(The back to normal sunchaser cruise, on The JJRAAK,
T2D Seaways, if anyone's interested .)
Tickets are sadly VERY expensive.
An Arm & a leg, almost.
And I pray the advertising blurb is truly accurate 'A once in a lifetime experience" they say....please God, let THAT be so.
but, after all the kerfuffle of actually being brought onboard, all i can say is once you leave Immobility Harbour, and set sail, it's the only way to travel.
As per dateline, we've been cruising for a good while
Captain M'eter,
French and a more then a little quirky,
Just come over the tannoy to say due to ongoing engine difficulties, we are still marooned in the Sea of Six. And oddly enough 6.6 nautical miles off the coast (Gulp)
Not much I can do about it, but it is starting to feel like groundhog Day, ..again.
Trying to keep myself occupied, and personally moving forward, I Used the ships gym again yesterday.
I ache a little today, but think I'm making headway and might be turning into a gym bunny.
After my previous 12 weeks rehab on shore experience, the gyms becoming something I'm beginning to feel comfortable in.
Moved beyond simply teaching myself to move once again in a less robotic fashion, & now slowly developing a little work out routine.
So I hope before too long, to start being able to measure reasonable improvements, in timings, durations, weights & reps
On a 'felt good' note, trainer explained an exercise very well, but I could see one lady, didn't really get it and seemed confused what to do
(It was a leg pull, ankle tethered to cable machine, side on movement)
I took time to offer advice
(Basically, Let the leg lift UP, slightly pulled BY the weight, then pull it DOWN. And repeat. THAT is the exercise to work that muscle )
I know as well explained as it was by trainer, sometimes we need other ways/routes to help us understand 'how' to do something new.
I didn't realise trainer was observing from across gym, quite liked when she came over & she said I should try teaching ..
( blush )
High praise indeed
Anyway, I digress
Looking out on the ships deck, the sky is blue, the day is lovely, if a little chilly.
Itinerary is more of the same as last week
I hope the malfunction works it's way out of the system soon & we leave the Sea of Six.
The brochure did promise we'd drop anchor and spend some time on the legendary "McGarrett Plains" I hear so much about.
Really looking forward to that trip, ...if it ever happens.
Got to go, buffet breakfast finishes soon,
eggs, bacon & a mug of tea while watching the waves...
What's not to like..
Bon voyage, Mes Amis"
Loving that description, oh so well illustrated.
Maaaaarvelous
Agree. Up to the point 'to assess'
Sorry to hear that
Okay let me rephrase that 'assess' @jjraakAgree. Up to the point 'to assess'
They say we learn fear
I just think as kids we were fearless
Like many of you it seems, bomb sites, building sites, abandoned buildings were our playground too.
Running on high ledges and leaping from warehouse roof to warehouse like ninjas, playing life out, the way today kids do on computers, without the respawning & extra lives if you got hurt.
Not to mention the thrill of speeding down a hill with brakes barely there, on bikes serviced & maintained by 10 year olds.
I doubt any assessment was every done.
We simply egged each other on, that it was safe, we were 'chicken' and we watched others did what scared us, so we followed.
I think our parents would have been rightly horrified (I know I am now ) at what we got up too as kids
Yet somehow we survived (mostly ) to play another day. .. tho' gawd knows how.
Fear...we learn it .
And danger...mmhh
It needed a volunteer to be badly injured, to show us in glorious details the risks, before we went , 'yep, that's dangerous'
And likely we went back to doing it anyway, the very next day ....
Happy days of a childhood long gone .....
A ginger?If I die ......
I'm coming back as one of your cats
Hope your BIL recovers quickly from all that trauma. Eyes are a worry when things go wrong.
Isn't it always the way? Dinosaurs, Apartheid, Empire, Colonialism, they come, they go but they never seem to realise that the lessons of history apply to them.Ah, progress...
But hard to say it's 'better' for it it many ways.
A lesson in the weight of generational change grinding down long established practices.
And those in power believing that THEIR power is set in stone & can't be swept away .
Seems the dinosaurs taught us nothing ...
Except maybe to dance ....
Ok people, with me...let's MOVE
Let's not be chauvinistic about this - equality of opportunity for all, after all. I think any colour or breed of cat would find a warm welcome from the lovely gennepher.
Science ma'am. The opiate of the masses.
Its the chisel not the carpenter
I have to point out that, after Neil had cut branches into "steps" for Em, he showed her how to climb and find handholds and well as footholds, he stayed with her to make sure she didn't fall. She was 8 then - just about the same age I was when I started climbing things and is much more confident now, but still pretty careful. When scrambling or climbing on rock faces, Tom was always with Neil, who was an enthusiastic climber. Alistair, on the other hand wasn't keen which is why, fairly early on, I stopped climbing because he needed me to stay with him - at the bottom! Years later he told me that he really doesn't like going up on the roof (chimney sweeping) or climbing up the mast of a ship - encouraged by his Dad. He doesn't have a fear of heights (my Dad suffered from vertigo) but he doesn't like the process of getting there.Thanks Ian
