Be gentle with me - a beginner's story!

[Tim Bennet.]

I'll pop into the cafe later. If there's a chance of being chatted up at my age (47) and in my condition, then I can't possibly pass it up.

I think you'll find you're just entering the prime of Patrick's life.

 

[Renard]

Good luck vera. The more you stick with it the more your sense of achevement will grow.

 

[Dayvo]

Aperitif, I'll pop into the cafe later. If there's a chance of being chatted up (by Dayvo or anyone else) at my age and in my condition, then I can't possibly pass it up. !

Too old for me! You're only a year younger than I am!

No, don't you go listening to that Aperitif fella!

I'm very prem im mature these days, and would talk to you in a very respectful and courteous manner; I might suddenly burst out laughing, but that's another story!

See you in the caf a bit later on, then!

 

[Blue]

Hello and welcome to the forum. I didn't read all of your OP as I already waste so much time listening to the ramblings of one woman(SWMBO) that I don't want to read the ramblings of another..........<ouch, that hurt> .

Seriously, good luck with the learning process as it's great fun - I'm not so much of an experienced expert that I can't recall those little victories like pushing the specs up the nose!!

 

[Arch]

Welcome Vera - cracking story and first post! Well done for taking the plunge!

It will get easier, with practice. And the great thing about cycling is, a bit like walking, you can just take it as far as you want. If you want to really challenge yourself, you can, but if not, you can just as well enjoy a quiet slow pootle to the shops. It's all good.

Anyway, do pop into the cafe, I have a feeling you'll fit in well in Tea? Don't feel you have to read all of it, BTW, just crash in and say hello...

 

[andyfromotley]

Vera,
hello and welcome.

I think you will fit in fine, i think there are lots of returning or 'never were' cyclists of a certain age on here. i think we may have all glimpsed our own mortality!

andy

 

[postman]

Aloe vera.

 

[Aperitif]

Aloe vera.

 

[Vera Wayfromee]

I think you'll find you're just entering the prime of Patrick's life.

'Ere! 'Ow dare you! I 'as not entered anything, I tell you. The last thing I entered was a State of Confusion - and that was a long while back!

 

[Vera Wayfromee]

Too old for me!

<sob>

You're only a year younger than I am!

Doesn't mean I couldn't teach you some new tricks.

No, don't you go listening to that Aperitif fella!

I'm very prem im mature these days, and would talk to you in a very respectful and courteous manner; I might suddenly burst out laughing, but that's another story!

I'm used to people bursting out laughing when they talk to me. Sometimes they don't even have to talk to me!

See you in the caf a bit later on, then!

Does that mean you're paying? For everyone?

 

[Vera Wayfromee]

Hello and welcome to the forum. I didn't read all of your OP as I already waste so much time listening to the ramblings of one woman(SWMBO) that I don't want to read the ramblings of another..........<ouch, that hurt> .

I'm sure SWMBO will agree that it's your loss when you don't listen!

[Seriously, good luck with the learning process as it's great fun - I'm not so much of an experienced expert that I can't recall those little victories like pushing the specs up the nose!! [/quote]

I'm going to have to get a sports band to hold the pesky things in place.

 

[Vera Wayfromee]

Welcome Vera - cracking story and first post! Well done for taking the plunge!

Thank you. I'm in the process of turning it into a blog so that I can add to it as my adventures grow. The likelihood is no one else will ever read it, but I think it will be something I'd like to look back on when I'm ready for the cross-cuntry challenges!

<snip>If you want to really challenge yourself, you can, but if not, you can just as well enjoy a quiet slow pootle to the shops. It's all good.

ROFL... The quiet slow pootle down would mean gripping the brakes all the way. The climb back looks like Kilimanjaro. Luckily one short hill away there is an old railway line that cuts across the mountain, rather than up or down it... and the nice people at sustrans persuaded the local government people that it should be a bona fide cycle/pedestrian track into a country park. So plenty of scope for leisure runs once I build up the ability to pass people on a 3 foot wide track!!!

Anyway, do pop into the cafe, I have a feeling you'll fit in well in Tea? Don't feel you have to read all of it, BTW, just crash in and say hello...

Tea seemed to be going through a serious phase, so I crashed beer instead. (That's my excuse, and I'm stubborn enough to stick with it!) Thank you.

 

[Vera Wayfromee]

Andy... "glimpsing my own mortality". Getting fit might kill me but I'm determined to look good in my coffin!
Postman...

So yesterday afternoon, just as I was wondering whether to chance leaving the house empty (ie no one in to take delivery) to go get some milk, there was a knock on the door.

There stood a very bedraggled rain-soaked gentleman with an equally bedraggled rain soaked large box. Whooooooooooooooo!

Unfortunately, what with the aforementioned lashing rain and wind, coupled with the fact that the bike doesn't yet have mudguards (the front one needs a little 'adapting' so my nearest and dearest has taken it off to work today to persuade it to fit!) a ride (especially a first nervous one) would probably not have been the best of experiences. So I just sat it in my living room and looked at it.

I'm not quite sure what the gasman made of it when he came to read my meter... which happens to be in a cupboard in the corner of the living room.

It looks as if things might be drying up a little outside now... hopefully very shortly the ground will be dry enough for the still-one-mudguard-short wheels not to throw crap in a straight line up and down my body.

 

[postman]

We have some very strange people on here now.Vera i don't know what the gasman thought when he came to read my meter and Hairy Jock who opened the door in his cycling shorts.

 

[Arch]

Thank you. I'm in the process of turning it into a blog so that I can add to it as my adventures grow. The likelihood is no one else will ever read it, but I think it will be something I'd like to look back on when I'm ready for the cross-cuntry challenges!

Ah, I was just saying in the blog section, that your post would make a great entry for the Cyclechat blog....