I love this part of the run. It’s such a lovely view and ITS NOW DOWNHILL for 10 minutes. At my age that’s almost as good as life gets…..
I needed that downhill section. My spirit was flagging. Mainly because of politics again. The once impartial BBC announced proudly over the radio airwaves that Boris Johnson is a family man and he’s backed it up by promising a new 60 youth centres. Unfortunately the BBC failed to mention for some reason that since 2010 the Conservative Government has effectively closed 763 youth centres. Funny that wasn’t mentioned. I must sort out my MP3 player so I don’t need to listen to these falsehoods anymore.
Twenty minutes later I was having a lovely chat with a helpful Road Worker.
“You can’t come down here the road is closed”
But I’m not in a car I’m on foot
“The road is still closed”
I can see the Road Closed Sign but I don’t see any signage saying the Path is closed.
“Well it is”
Looks open to me
“Well I say it isn’t.”
Does the highways order cover the pathway.
“I bloody don’t know. I’m telling you the path is closed. You need to go back.”
You haven’t even put up any advanced closure signs.
“Don’t get clever with me. Your going back the same way you came.”
As much as I’m enjoying chatting to you I am getting cold and very bored now. Your closure doesn’t include the path and it certainly doesn’t include the field. So see yah…
** at this stage I jumped over the fence into the farmers field and ran past the purple faced road worker. He seemed to be giving me some friendly hand gestures.**
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You get pivotal moments in time. In Middle Earth it would be the Battle of Helms Deep. In Sherlock Holmes it would be the Reichenbach Falls. In Marvel it would be End Game. In our house it’s when a certain Dad tries to bake an Apple Crumble. Years of trying and years of disastrous failure. Now it’s that pivotal moment in time again.
Dad did you make this Apple Crumble ?
Yes
All by yourself. Your not pretending you cooked it but actually it’s my aunties baking.
No all my own doing.
Unbelievably Dad this is actually nice. Never thought I ever would say this but can I have seconds.
So in the scheme of things for an old fart useless muppet life doesn’t get any better than running downhill and baking an edible apple crumble. It really doesn’t.
Love both actions…
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Thank you
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Good scores on both counts – love the lateral thinking (did you really cook it? I’d be quite happy to fib at this juncture).
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No fibbing unbelievably I did without help.
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Such humour and the conversation with the road worker would have been something that I would have done, in fact I would probably just walked past him without jumping the fence but it was a good way out of the situation.
There are a lot of jobsworths about today I think and it really is crazy.
Good luck on your continuing journey and I certainly wouldn’t say that you are useless, not everyone can bake an apple pie just as not everyone can bring up children in the circumstances that you are doing.
Well done.
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I’m not sure why I didn’t keep walking really.
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Congrats on the defiant run 😛 😉
And HUGE congrats on the apple crumble. I love to bake, but it’s not something I have quite mastered yet, so kudos to you 😉
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Thank you. First baking win ever.
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Love it!
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Thank you x
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A good day!😍
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🙏
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Winning day! I’m so glad you hurdled the fence!
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I’m so pleased I didn’t fall over doing that.
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That, too.
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🙏
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Two triumphs!
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Indeed
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I wept a little at the end of your post. Kid asking for seconds… you truly deserve this joy.
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Probably not happening again.
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I wouldn’t bet on that😉
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No x
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Always celebrate the Victories… and never let the Turkeys get you down! 😉
And fix the mp3 player.
Well Done, MISTER Crumble. 😉
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Good to hear from you sir.
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Johnson being a family man makes me laugh, he is very fuzzy on how many kids he has.
Well done on the apple crumble, I still haven’t mastered it
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Which family. From the sound of it he has potentially many.
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“Children 5 or 6”
^^^ That is from his wiki page
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Look at that. What more could you want really xxxxxxxxxx
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Maybe to be able to recreate that success at the weekend. xxxxx
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You may even add to it.
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Maybe
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Crumble is one of my few specialties, one of which almost led to divorce
https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2014/05/11/a-grumble-in-the-crumble/
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That post is so funny.
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thanks. Sis still doesn’t talk to me, but for different reasons now
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🙏
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I agree about the BBC, so unprepared to challenge Conservatives or Brexiteers… so unwilling to listen to the others, in particular the Greens.
Stoopid jobsworth roadworks man.
My apple crumble is going down very very well with my kids at the moment. Long may it last.
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Do you go for custard, cream or ice cream?
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Custard for me, or if there isn’t any, cream.
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Good call
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Two times A+
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That’s a score I can settle for.
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🙂
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You should have taken one of your old style apple crumble and some milk of magnesia ice cream down to that nice road worker that was so helpful in giving you directions home. 😂😂 Maybe tomorrow when it’s not so hot out.
❤️✌️
BY FOR NOW
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Custard pie for him.
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Win, win!
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It was.
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Reading the exchange, I just KNEW you’d hop into the field! It’s the smart thing to do.
And great news about your apple crumble. My son loves the crumble part but not so much the apple so nowadays we make “Crumble Crumble” aka we leave out the fruit.
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It’s the first time he’s eaten the crumble. He normally just goes for the fruit.
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Wow 🤩 I’d call it hero of the day: pie 🥧 & run 🏃 in 1 day 👍👍
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Thank you. The crumble was heroic.
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And for the record, you’re not an old useless fart!
So glad your pie came out good. That’s a big accomplishment! Huge! 🎉🙌🏽
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Ok will go for useless fart then. Hope your well. x
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Haha! Nah! Still wrong. I’m doing better. My thyroid has been acting up and I’ve developed anemia. So we’re trying to get that under control, but only time will tell. There’s nothing but medication that can help.
How are you? How’s your son?! Have missed reading your stories. And I’m so glad you’ve gotten so much better at baking! 😊🙌🏽 that’s amazing
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One win in a sea of burnt disasters. School is a real fight at present.
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Ugh! I’m fighting that same fight. My 5 year old is showing early signs of dyslexia, her teacher continues to be dismissive of that and so now she cries each morning not wanting to go. I have a meeting scheduled this Thursday with the school and then I need to schedule one with the teacher. There are great teachers out there, but then we have a few that are not willing to help far more than their paychecks allow. It’s beyond frustrating.
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Have you got an Optician locally who does dyslexia testing. Rare here but they will test the mechanics of the eye out to see if that is contributing to the dyslexia. The one we saw didn’t give us a solution but she did help rule out a range of things.
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No, they haven’t mentioned any of that. Thank you for letting me know. I’ll call her insurance tomorrow and find out. And even then, dealing with insurance companies is a headache. I meet tomorrow with the school counselor to let her know what is going on.
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Keep my fingers crossed.
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I think politics everywhere is a sh*tshow right now. Over here, across the pond, we are trying to figure out just how corrupt our president is. Fun.
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It doesn’t look good at the moment for both sides of the pond.
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I love it! Awesome you did it anyway. What is apple crumble? 🙂
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It’s food heaven. Cooked apple topped with a thick layer of crumble.
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Oh that sounds so delicious . Did you post a pic?
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No because I thought it would be awful. It then went to quickly.
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Oh darn lol . So it came out good I take it🙂
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I managed to burn everything today. I ended up having cornflakes for dinner.
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Oh no … what is going on ? I think we are both having the same luck 💕
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It must be the weather
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Agree..
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🙏
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