…is a little bit of motivation. It’s very easy to spend your life looking down, focusing on your work, your home or the tiny things that fill your day. Shit I’ve run out of waterproof grout or if I don’t fuel Dad’s blog the world will implode (scientifically proven apparently). These things can wrap you up like a 1980’s snorkel coat and suffocate you so sometimes I forget to look up from my daily toil and breathe in the mountains that surround me and sometimes I forget to look up and see my son doing something extraordinary and new. Sometimes I even forget to read Daddy P’s blog…
Yesterday somebody very loverly reminded that I have a big fat motorcycle. So I dragged it out of the pile of leaves that it was hiding under, cajoled it into life and took it for a spin – nowhere in particular – I didn’t pop to the council office to pay my miniscule water bill or to the minimercado to buy some delicious chocolate muffins. Just went for a ride. And bleedin’ marvellous it was too…
Nuts – forgot the muffins – where’s my keys…?
I didn’t surf today.
Now you be careful astride that formidable machine …….. we don’t want any accidents do we?
nice…
[heavy sigh] i’d have one, but many bad drivers where i live. scariest? the elder folk, turn signals on since they bought the car, straddling 2 lanes, out to buy batteries for hearing aids. since i have no bike, i get a proximal boost by hopping in my old jeep, topless, and going nowhere… [heavier sigh]
No we wouldn’t Daddykins…
Hey Twin. Nice indeed. How’s the surf over there?
Is that the jeep that’s topless. If not – can I ride shotgun…?
A most fabulous idea! I’ll bet Dakar was smiling as much as you were …
Well…I’m stuck in the office. So…you know…fucking all time. (check the pics on gaz’ or doc’s blogs)
That would be about right Twinny. Apparently it’s been epic for weeks here. Since I last went in. Bastards…
I think so Ms Bravo – I’ve been neglecting the poor thing. Must go buff some footpegs or something.
Thanks for the nudge… xxx
What an excellent post. Sometimes you just need to do nothing but what’s good for the soul.
Of course, in my world, good for the soul includes muffins. 😉
Cheers Jen. You’re absolutely right – muffins are exceedingly important to the balance of the universe. Also a scientifically proven fact…
I had a day with my head out of the routine fuzz…. took off for a while this afternoon with my pup to trek across the rather muddy fields near where I live (which I haven’t done in ages). It was bloody freezing but what a great cobweb clearing experience. It just has to be done to remind ourselves just what is important to feed the soul
alas, just the jeep is topless. the new ‘twins’ are nice, but spending the night in jail for indecent exposure arrest wouldn’t feed my soul. some passengers have been inspired to stand up in the back seat, hold onto the roll bar and do a ‘kate winslet’ – screaming ‘i’m flying! i’m flying!’
I wouldn’t say it implodes, but he gets very quiet and witdrawn………… nice.
Witdrawn…? Well that’s no surprise… x
hey i hope that pic wasn’t taken in Portugal
cos if it were then your gonna have a head on with someone!!
and yes i might be getting all the surf but hey im jealous cos i want to be riding a big bad bike
Hey Dolphinium. I tell you what – you sort out that bike of yours and I’ll come down for a surf. Happy days all round…