I'm back in the library this time no coughing man and no slanty monitor or chair. I have my gorgeous daughter sat opposite me trying to her maths work and she keeps asking me questions, there are only so many times I can bump her off with 'why don't you work it out' or ask Google.
Maths is not mine or her strong points.
But I feel rushed at the PC clock is counting down and I'm conscious that I have so much stuff to look at, and there's only so much you can do on a tiny phone screen.
I have more to tell you about the moving day......
It turns out Ob pulled the red cord as apparently he wanted to see what it did, so he's the culprit of breaking the garage door, since then he's broken a zip on his school shorts, a zip on his new shorts and something else that I've forgotten. Thanks Son!!
Eunice / Yannus actually fixed the garage all I needed to do was press a button on the actual unit, so I didn't actually need Jim or Mo. Sigh.
Now the mountain fiasco...
Sean thought it would be nice to take us to Mount Stromlo. Its easy he said, enjoyable he said, you'll love it he said.
I can tell you now It's not easy, It's not enjoyable (well maybe a little bit) and I did NOT love it.
We rock up on Saturday after squeezing 3 bikes into the civic and get there where we see an endurance race is going on. I did have a little fist pump and think yes got out of it. But no Sean thought it would be a good idea to just to the playground bit. Which was logs, see saws and various planks narrower than my bike wheel you're supposed to cycle across.
I did none of this just scanned for scaries. after about 30 minutes in here we decided to cycle on a bit, only we came face to face with the endurance race (a 24 hour one) now I like cycling but I could not do a 24 hour race, mainly because I couldn't do it in Will Smith time. Anyway we thought it probably best we try and get back to the car, fighting our way through the equivalent of the Tour DE France we made it back to the car. (the last time Sean and I went to Stromlo for him to cycle me to mooch there was a race on, so you'd have thought by now he'd look to see if there was anything on)
I suggested this and he agreed!
Any how we go back on Sunday. Up and out the house by 6.30 am.
We arrived and for the first time we get going. I'm on the Boardman which is an awesome bike, poor Ob is on my clonky old bike (with no brakes)
So after about 15 minutes I ask if we're at the top yet, the reply is short "NO"
great. We are literally cycling up the side of the mountain, single path (why would you do that) and its getting hot and its getting hard work.
Ob at this point is loving it as he can beat us all the steep bits. I am not enjoying this and have to admit at one point I had a little diva fit and screamed 'where is the lift down and why isn't this flat'
Sean replied quite simply 'its a mountain, what did you expect'
I expected it to be fun and enjoyable like he told me but I put my game face on.
Right so half way up and we get to stop and look at the burnt out old observatory which is amazing and has no graffiti at all and the views are stunning.
I'm trying to look for ways down but there are none, so up we go a bit more.
We eventually get to the top having been lapped by one hell of a keen man, (he had far too much energy for my liking and was a show off)
And then ask again where the lift is and where the flat road down is.
Hmmmm there is NONE. So we start the decent, having told Sean to go on as he knows what he's doing and he has the proper bike for this, he leaves us in a proper cloud of dust.
I got my bike ready and so did Ob and ......
We made it about 3m then got off, Ob has no bakes (if I had a dollar for every time he's said this I would be rich) he then has a little diva fit, and we walk down the first bit. Seriously we did.
It then flattens out a bit which is lovely apart from there is a single path rocks all over the place and we have no idea what we're doing. The advice we got from Sean was to stand up and put all our weight over the back tyre and only use 2 fingers to brake. Ob has no brakes so pointless him using 2 or 4 fingers, makes no difference.
Sean's pulled over and is waiting for us and he's so happy he's beaming like a Cheshire cat, I put my game face on and say 'yay' quite meekly, 'this is ok'
Ob is grumbling very loudly about how stupid it is and how he HAS NO BRAKES!!!!
Sean goes on further, so does Ob then me.....
I get to a clearing bit and don't see either of them, and there are 4 or 5 different routes to choose from, Great, I'm envisaging helicopter rescues, my hair being messed up and being on a TV show. But promising myself how ever long I'm up there I will NOT eat bugs.
I then see a route with a cross so decide to take that one, luckily that's the right one. By now there are several more people on the course and I pull over to let them pass, they are so quick I feel like I need to tell them to slow down because they'll hurt themselves if they fall.
I obviously don't.
This part of the mountain now has luge's, I'm not joking the same type that toboggans use. Christ I go into the first one and the back wheel is sliding out the front wheel is chucking me to the left. I am NOT happy. After about the 76th and me getting off to walk around them I'm ready to scream.
Game face on though.
We do eventually make it back to the car where after putting the bikes back in the car, Ob asks 'can we do that again tomorrow that was awesome.
"NO"
2 Min's left on the PC, time is ticking.
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