One does want to look one's best , which is why both I and my bike were tidied up this week .
Predictably the whole thing worked better on the bike . Only four months old , her after sales check involved her saddle bags being hoovered , tyres pumped up , chain oiled and being lightly polished with a chamois cloth . She gleams .
I , on the other hand , having gone to the hairdresser rather than the bike shop , have only had a haircut . I have polished my shoes , though , so there's a slight improvement overall even if I don't exactly dazzle .
Since Friend , YD and I are hoping to see the Hubert De Givenchy exhibition To Audrey With Love in Den Haag this weekend , I might even re-attach the top button on my coat . Still , Friend and YD will look their usual elegant selves and I'll be the Margaret Rutherford figure bringing up the rear . Perhaps if I hoover my capacious handbag and check for the odd fluffy peppermint .... ?
Goodbye 2023, Hello 2024!
11 months ago
7 comments:
My sweet bike is going on three years old. You have reminded me that she needs some love and attention. Have fun at the Givenchy exhibition with your friends.
Gawd, I could use MY tyres pumped up!
Mental pictures forming here of a Hoover nozzle growling away in the deepest reaches of your handbag!
Is that a little brave of a bike shop, to hoover deep in a customer's saddlebags.
Now there's an idea, a good buff up with a shammy (though in reality I need one of those industrial polishers).
Oh I think we'd get on well.
And don't be too hard on yourself, after all Bikey is only 4 months old, that's the equivalent of 6 months in human years. No, that can't be right. If a bike lasts for 10 years, say, and a human lives for 100, say, then that means one bike year is worth 10 human years so 4 months equals - oh I don't know. I should never have started this.
Margaret Rutherford..... pffff..... she was rather wonderful, wasn't she? I imagine that you are too, on your gleaming bike.
I hanker after a bike, but my knees twinge at the thought of it. Electric, maybe, to cope with the hilly bits - after all, you have to pedal to some degree to get the thing to move....
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