Last-minute decisions
Jul. 26th, 2004 07:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
j4Right. I will be in Switzerland from 7th-13th August. If I was supposed to be doing anything then, I'm not going to be doing it now, because I'll be in the wrong country.
There are times when only mountains will do.
There are times when only mountains will do.
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Date: 2004-07-26 12:01 pm (UTC)In the Mountains, there you feel free
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Date: 2004-07-26 12:20 pm (UTC)And no, I typed it it.
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Date: 2004-07-26 04:38 pm (UTC)First time I saw a real Mountain was last year, snowboarding in the Alps. Being entirely devoid of natural poetry I thought Feck me, that's BIG!
They rate capital letters.
Mind you, I grew up in Leicester, and have cycled up and down again the three biggest hills in the county in a day. None of the BFO Mountains in Tignes had a cycle path to the top.
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Date: 2004-07-26 05:31 pm (UTC)How decalsé. Did you stand still for long perios, wear mud colured clothes, and shout "dude" a lot?
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Date: 2004-07-27 04:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-27 08:56 am (UTC)There is a video sequence - fortunately deleted - which shows me proceeding down la Grande Motte at a pace which I thought was the land speed record, and looks like a conductor on a bandstand on a very slow carnival float, playing something very slow indeed.
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Date: 2004-07-26 12:06 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-07-26 01:18 pm (UTC)The road to Cold Mountain that never ends.
The valleys are long and strewn with stones;
Streams broad and banked with thick grass;
Moss is slippery, though no rain has fallen;
Pines sigh, but it isn't the wind.
Who can break from the snares of the world
And sit with me among the white clouds?
- Han Shan ("Cold Mountain")
in the T'ang.
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Date: 2004-07-26 01:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-26 02:55 pm (UTC)TSoM always makes me cry too, but not quite that quickly.
Why Toblerone, anyway? You can get that over here, & it's grim. I will bring you some real chocolate instead.
Toblerone
Date: 2004-07-27 03:45 am (UTC)Re: Toblerone
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Date: 2004-07-26 02:11 pm (UTC)Enjoy! I'd mention Toblerone but
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Date: 2004-07-26 02:40 pm (UTC)I'm now very very hungy,...
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Date: 2004-07-26 03:00 pm (UTC)Dammit, come to Switzerland with me. Please.
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Date: 2004-07-26 03:14 pm (UTC)I'd love to.
But I'm in Scotland that week.
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Date: 2004-07-26 03:24 pm (UTC)Or we could go next year, and go for August 1st, and see the fireworks ... sit outside the chalet in the warm evening air and watch the entire valley blossoming into flowers of light.
I'm in Scotland that week.
Date: 2004-07-27 03:43 am (UTC)Just.
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Date: 2004-07-26 02:59 pm (UTC)Leftover raclette cheese makes such good cheese-on-toast, too.
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Date: 2004-07-26 03:08 pm (UTC)Nope, don't understand this.
Unless you under-catered on the potatoes.
The HORROR.
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Date: 2004-07-26 03:15 pm (UTC)It's not so much "under-catered on the potatoes" as "filled every suitable pan I own with potatoes and this still proved not quite enough for the amount of cheese which well-meaning grandparents gave me". They bring back a piece about ... [waves hands] *this* big.
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Date: 2004-07-26 03:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-27 04:45 am (UTC)[to be sung to generic bluesy tune]
"I've got a big cheese, baby, and it's melting just for you.
I've got a big cheese, baby, and it's melting just for you.
Come over here baby, dip your bread in my hot fondue."
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Date: 2004-07-27 04:29 am (UTC)Have a lovely time, and eat plenty of cheese and chocolate. But not together, I don't think they go.
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Date: 2004-07-27 04:40 am (UTC)*drool*
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Date: 2004-08-04 02:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-26 02:57 pm (UTC)Grrr. HUNGRY NOW.
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