Thank you for the effort you put into editing your videos. Your videos are certainly not boring. I'm either laughing at your general musings or gripping the table with white knuckles every time you get on your bike and risk life and limb getting your shopping. It's really interesting to see the every day happenings of your boating life.
Thank you so much for your lovely comment. Sadly the UK roads are not yet set up for cyclists, and we must sometimes take a few chances to reach our destinations. But I fully realise how fragile I am at the age of 61, and I can't afford to take crazy risks on the roads, although I think it probably seems like I do. My achilles heel ( and probably what makes the videos more interesting), is that I have a limit of patience. Once I am properly fed up with the situation, I tend to lose my sense of control and perspective, and I must admit, then I am prone to doing stupid things, purely out of frustration. I was once detained at an airport because my bag did not come out on the luggage carousel. This was after a 24 hour flight delay, and I was not in a good mood when my suitcase did not appear on the luggage carousel. In my anger and impatience I climbed behind the barriers into the 'forbidden zone' in a desperate attempt to find my suitcase. The alarm sirens went off, and I was detained by a squad of police, but thankfully they understood my point of view and let me go, I wonder if it is this fragile temperament that makes my videos more interesting to the viewer?
11/20/24, 3:55 pm, St. Louis, Missouri, 79year old, with coffee, watching spry 60 year old peddle around England on a hot day, wonderful, thanks, enjoy the humor.
You are very kind, thank you. But I fear that the word 'spry' may be too generous. My cycling around England would surely be no less distasteful to behold if someone had decanted a large tub of lard into the seat of my bike, and filmed its progress along the country lanes.
You phrasing is very kind, and I do appreciate that, but the harsh truth I must confront is that my current weight is way too high, and I really do have to take it more seriously. On the plus side, I have lost some weight since August when this video was filmed, but there is a lot more work to do. I will never be booked to appear on a catwalk, but it is almost a survival and longevity issue. If I even want to carry making videos for another decade, the time has come to address the elephant in the room. Pun very much intended 🤣
Haha, yes Mr C, those are wise words indeed. But I do worry that I have indulged a tad too much in the gift of beer. I had an incident at Coventry canal basin - it was back in Sept, so I've not reached that yet in the videos. My right foot swelled and became quite painful if touched, and Trev advised me that it sounded like gout. It subsided after a week or so, and I was able to move freely again, but I treated it as a shot across my bows, and I've reduced my weekly beer intake by about 60% since then. It seems we have a choice, once we get into our 60s. Option 1 is to carry on indulging all of our food and drink desires, and then to face some fairly serious consequences (of which my gout attack was probably the least serious). Option 2 is to throttle back on the beer intake, in the hope of living a decade or so longer, (and still be at least reasonably mobile). For the sake of my global audience, I am trying to take option 2, whilst not turning into a dour and miserable bugger.
Thank you for the effort you put into editing your videos. Your videos are certainly not boring. I'm either laughing at your general musings or gripping the table with white knuckles every time you get on your bike and risk life and limb getting your shopping. It's really interesting to see the every day happenings of your boating life.
Thank you so much for your lovely comment. Sadly the UK roads are not yet set up for cyclists, and we must sometimes take a few chances to reach our destinations.
But I fully realise how fragile I am at the age of 61, and I can't afford to take crazy risks on the roads, although I think it probably seems like I do.
My achilles heel ( and probably what makes the videos more interesting), is that I have a limit of patience.
Once I am properly fed up with the situation, I tend to lose my sense of control and perspective, and I must admit, then I am prone to doing stupid things, purely out of frustration.
I was once detained at an airport because my bag did not come out on the luggage carousel. This was after a 24 hour flight delay, and I was not in a good mood when my suitcase did not appear on the luggage carousel. In my anger and impatience I climbed behind the barriers into the 'forbidden zone' in a desperate attempt to find my suitcase.
The alarm sirens went off, and I was detained by a squad of police, but thankfully they understood my point of view and let me go,
I wonder if it is this fragile temperament that makes my videos more interesting to the viewer?
Yes, you're probably right. It's expecting the unexpected that gives the videos an edge. Looking forward to the next one.
11/20/24, 3:55 pm, St. Louis, Missouri, 79year old, with coffee, watching spry 60 year old peddle around England on a hot day, wonderful, thanks, enjoy the humor.
You are very kind, thank you.
But I fear that the word 'spry' may be too generous.
My cycling around England would surely be no less distasteful to behold if someone had decanted a large tub of lard into the seat of my bike, and filmed its progress along the country lanes.
back in grandpa's day you would have been regarded as, "portly", "barrel chested", "successful".
You phrasing is very kind, and I do appreciate that, but the harsh truth I must confront is that my current weight is way too high, and I really do have to take it more seriously.
On the plus side, I have lost some weight since August when this video was filmed, but there is a lot more work to do.
I will never be booked to appear on a catwalk, but it is almost a survival and longevity issue.
If I even want to carry making videos for another decade, the time has come to address the elephant in the room.
Pun very much intended 🤣
"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy" Benjamin Franklin
Haha, yes Mr C, those are wise words indeed. But I do worry that I have indulged a tad too much in the gift of beer.
I had an incident at Coventry canal basin - it was back in Sept, so I've not reached that yet in the videos.
My right foot swelled and became quite painful if touched, and Trev advised me that it sounded like gout.
It subsided after a week or so, and I was able to move freely again, but I treated it as a shot across my bows, and I've reduced my weekly beer intake by about 60% since then.
It seems we have a choice, once we get into our 60s.
Option 1 is to carry on indulging all of our food and drink desires, and then to face some fairly serious consequences (of which my gout attack was probably the least serious).
Option 2 is to throttle back on the beer intake, in the hope of living a decade or so longer, (and still be at least reasonably mobile).
For the sake of my global audience, I am trying to take option 2, whilst not turning into a dour and miserable bugger.