Yesterday my friend Pauline persuaded me to go swimming in Lough Mac Nean with her. Yes, she is as daft as a brush as we had snow again last week and you can still see it on the mountains – see the photo I nicked from www.photosofblacklion.net as the proof! To be fair Glan is a couple of miles up the road from Blacklion but there was seven and a half feet of snow! And all that snow melted down and trickled it’s way to the lake where it was BLOODY FREEZING. Of course I am daft too so I tarred myself with the same brush - and us two half-wits got rubbered up putting on our tri-suits to make a splash. Toes are still intact, thank you. Having eventually got down in the water we managed to persuade ourselves to swim out around the island and back. The only way to keep warm was to keep going! Maybe it was the air of Boho and wizzing down the country lanes that had my mind half-baked - YES I had got my little trucker out again and have been cycling the hills of Boho. All I can say is thank God for disc brakes as I nearly went flying into a BMW yesterday on one of the downhills.
Today Pauline wants me to go running with her. The girl is like a march hare she did not walk, but RAN up Croagh Patrick a few weeks ago. So I told her to go easy on me. In other news the Revolution Boys will be back from the first Irish Circumnavigation of the Globe (a mouthful indeed) on the 15th May and will be doing a homecoming cycle from Blackrock to Greystones raising money for Aware. I am actively recruiting! It’s only about 25km and if you are worried about getting on a bike hear this: when they left in November 2008 I did the same cycle on a rusty bike, I hadn’t eaten breakfast that morning and was probably slightly hungover too. I only felt woozy once and the lovely marshals pushed me up Bray head! So get your old Raleigh or whatever serviced and get on your pushbike. There will be a bit of a shindig afterwards in the Rugby Club in Greystones so it will be well worth it for the craic. Or even to see the state of Simons big red beard and dodgier by the day hairstyle. I think he’s going for a beegees look at the moment and I will personally be presenting him with a very sharp pair of hedgeclippers when he comes home.
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April 8, 2010 at 12:14 pm
Marina
Hilarious blog!!
Sounds like you should give swimming in the alpine lakes a bash!
As for Simon’s hair…To be fair, I think the style quite suits him and that he should not chop it beyond those ear-lobes!
April 8, 2010 at 12:25 pm
Rachel
So you’re in freezing water and your mind is half-baked? An achievement indeed. I can testify to the half-baked bit and also saw you ‘rubbered up’. I need to retreat to my happy place now.
April 15, 2010 at 7:48 am
Simon
Good blog Emms very funny.
In defence to my hairstyle, I haven’t been to the hairdressers since Tashkent when the flashy jewleried muppet with a dodgy hairdo there cut it he chopped half it off, and there were literally piles of my glorious red hair on the floor. I’m thinking that perhaps it’s valuable there and he wanted to sell it? The morale of the story is, never get a hair cut from someone who has a bad cut themselves!!
So how do I order a David Beckham hairstyle en Francais then?
PS, tri suit?? Try swimming butt naked in a freezing kyrgyz river, which is actually just meltwater from the snowy peaks above. Wusses : )