A complete lie. It’s long. It’s sometimes broad but mostly it’s just long.
I’m away with AnM and AnM v1.1 (who is small but has excellent taste – main goal in life is an optimistically phrased ‘ice cream?’). We shall call AnM v1.1 ‘JP’ from here on.
Trying to work through my mindfulness challenges from mum. Today’s was ‘be mindful for 5 breaths, five times today’. I think I did ok. I stared at trees and tried to be in the present. Ironically I just found out that tomorrow is as follows:
We hired a boat and as AnM was engrossed in making sure JP didn’t throw himself off boat in utter glee at my driving skills, I was skipper. Previously I’ve been no good at boat driving. Canal boats, fine – they are rear steering and you are in the rear while steering. Even as a kid my brain understood those physics. Broad boats however are more like planes I realised today. Steering is in the rear but you are midships and this mucks up the brain. I discovered today, you set the curve, follow it without moving steering wheel and when you like direction bow is pointing you move steering wheel back to centre. To clarify – centre isn’t marked. It’s a lottery to pick the right rotation of the wheel.
On previous trips I kept over compensating – zig zagging everywhere. Today I moored twice successfully. Once to get an ice cream from the ice cream boat and once to moor at the end. I actually really enjoyed it – first time I really understood how to drive boat and I got it right. Plus motor loud enough that much of the time I was restricted to gazing at nature and trying to breathe mindfully. Hope AnM and JP enjoyed it also (who am I kidding, JP had a great time).
Nibbles for dinner as we are that rock and roll. I’m expecting AnM and JP will be up earlier due to JP. I however will not. I have forwarned AnM of this.
