food v exercise

I said:

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During the walk, I discovered that by "walking" she meant that
she enjoyed gentle strolls of no more than a couple of miles.

and Roos queried:

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And you still married her..? 🙂

I've at least improved her cycling range. She hasn't ridden for about a
year (due first to pregnancy, then to the inability to fit both children
in one trailer when one of the children can't yet sit up), but before
that I eventually managed to get her riding 30 miles without too much
discomfort.

Not only that, but I persuaded her to go on a cycling holiday last year
(CTC Birthday Rides), and she enjoyed it so much that she actually
suggested she'd like to do something similar next year. So we're going
to York Rally.

--
Danny Colyer (the UK company has been laughed out of my reply address)
<URL:http://www.speedy5.freeserve.co.uk/danny/>
"He who dares not offend cannot be honest." - Thomas Paine

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"Peter B" <[email hidden]>typed

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Was this at Mayflower Helen?

I didn't realise you went there! When were you there?

I only know you were there because I asked you via this NG after spotting
your name (a little less common than Helen Smith :-) with your comment about
your profession when browsing through Friends Reunited some while ago.
I spent the last term of '64 at Mayflower after moving from Launde School
in Oadby to live the city, St Philips Road in fact, only round the corner
from Stanley Road.

Because the county had abandoned the 11 plus and I missed the one run by
the city I lost the chance to qualify for a city Grammar School.
Moving to the "old fashioned" city system from the progressive county one
was a culture shock, the city pupils were way ahead on all fronts but the
Headmaster put me through a series of tests and gave me extra tuition, one
of those people you remember all your life for their kindness and
dedication...but I ramble on.

Anyway, two of my sisters and a brother followed me through Mayflower:
Susan, Lorraine and David Burnham , I don't know if you may recall any of
them?
(Oh, and several of my brothers and sisters passed through Evington
Valley).

Best regards,
Pete Burnham.

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The first time I ever felt old was in a chip shop near Blackpool. During
one of those conversations you have to endure when the fish are frying I
mentioned The Beatles. The young girl serving replied "Never heard of

them".

The first time I felt old was when aged about 40 and feeling about 20 I
went into a disco (as we called them in my day:-) full of 18 year olds then
I felt about 50 :-(

Pete

Peter B said:

The first time I felt old was when aged about 40 and feeling about 20 I
went into a disco (as we called them in my day:-) full of 18 year olds then
I felt about 50 :-(

I know. Every year University students get younger and younger. If they
keep getting younger at this rate they'll soon be as young as my daughters.

Tony

Tony Raven said:

Peter B said:

The first time I felt old was when aged about 40 and feeling about 20 I
went into a disco (as we called them in my day:-) full of 18 year olds then
I felt about 50 :-(

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I know. Every year University students get younger and younger. If they
keep getting younger at this rate they'll soon be as young as my daughters.

And at the other end 50 year olds seem to get younger and younger. They
are starting to look like normal people 🙂

Roos

Peter B said:

The first time I felt old was when aged about 40 and feeling about 20 I
went into a disco (as we called them in my day:-) full of 18 year olds then
I felt about 50 :-(

That reminds me of the time I went home from university at the end of
the first term. I went to the pub with a few friends (all of us 18) and
we realised we were the oldest customers in the place.

--
Danny Colyer (the UK company has been laughed out of my reply address)
<URL:http://www.speedy5.freeserve.co.uk/danny/>
"He who dares not offend cannot be honest." - Thomas Paine

in message <[email hidden]>, Roos Eisma

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Tony Raven said:

Peter B said:

The first time I felt old was when aged about 40 and feeling about
20 I went into a disco (as we called them in my day:-) full of 18
year olds then I felt about 50 :-(

Quoted message said:

I know. Every year University students get younger and younger. If
they keep getting younger at this rate they'll soon be as young as my
daughters.

And at the other end 50 year olds seem to get younger and younger.
They are starting to look like normal people 🙂

What gets me is I see these solid, middle-aged, respectable people with
families and proper responsible jobs and stuff all over the place, and
they're _all_ younger than me.

I mean it's not as if I wish to grow up, you understand, but I do
sometimes wonder what happened.

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Simon Brooke said:

What gets me is I see these solid, middle-aged, respectable people with
families and proper responsible jobs and stuff all over the place, and
they're _all_ younger than me.

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I mean it's not as if I wish to grow up, you understand, but I do
sometimes wonder what happened.

I suspect it takes a lot of practice. I recall when I was a young
student noticing that some of my fellow teenagers were already
practising being middle aged adults, and a few of them were already
pretty good at it, right down to the brogues, cardigans, and
curly-stemmed pipes.

It's probably like language acquisition. If you leave it too late
you'll never make it. At 60, I'm far to old too grow up now, and the
benefits are very questionable now that I don't need to pretend any
longer to be a reliable punctual employable sort of chap. But I do
think it's important to get past the teenage years before getting off
the growing up train. One doesn't want to end up like those dreadful
elderly American teenagers that prop up the bars in the backcountry.

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Chris Malcolm [email hidden] +44 (0)131 651 3445 DoD #205
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