There’s something beguiling about the idea of having the afternoon off while other people are still at work. However, on a grey January afternoon, the enchantment doesn’t last long. Once spring arrives I will probably feel different.
Of course, once spring arrives, I will retire, and every afternoon will be free.
Duck – Arnot Hill Park
I thought of where I could go, but so many places are now closed to me. We were unhappy with Clumber Park the last few times we visited – what seemed like deliberately poor service in the cafe several times, then a somewhat overbearing attendant (not for the first time at a National Trust property) – so after lockdown we decided not to renew. It will therefore cost me £5 to visit. It’s not really worth it for the limited use I can make out of it. Seems to me to be discriminatory – free to pedestrians and cyclists but £5 to a man with bad knees who needs to use a car. It would be £10 if Julia was with me. If we ever go again, I may make her get out and walk.
The same goes for other places – paying where car parking used to be free, and in one case, demolition of the car park to allow for the building of a new, less convenient, visitor centre. I realise that things are never really “free” but it’s discouraging when you re looking for somewhere to go. If I could still spend an hour or two walking it would be OK, but for the distance I can now do, it doesn’t seem like good value.
Mandarin Duck – Arnot Hill Park
When you also add my disinclination to mingle with people, it’s all very discouraging.
There is a very cantankerous old bloke with a mobility scooter who makes a point of speeding down the pathway and then edging out onto the road and crossing so slowly that all traffic has to stop and wait for an inordinate amount of time. He does it on purpose and yells and swears and takes his hand of the control toggle to shake his fist at anyone who toots at him. You could possibly avoid that sort of thing.
Avoid? I thought you were giving me a masterclass . . . 🙂
Ha Ha ! !
🙂
I do like tootlepedal’s idea, and perhapos a Mad Max theme would work–something implying admiralty at the very least–
I will try a modest start and maybe work up to something more theatrical.
‘Effective’ is what counts most, and outfits can be part of that–I am having design concepts on the subject…
I like the idea of you on a mobility scooter. There should be many entertaining posts as a result.
I am definitely considering it. “Travels within a 15 mile radius” could be the result.
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I don’t know what is available in the U.K. but here one can get a handicap tag to hang from the rear view mirror. Parking spaces near the entrance for people with such tags are mandatory in most if not all public places here.
I need to fill in a form to get a badge, just had a knee X-Ray as the start of the process. 🙂
You could get a mobility scooter and scare the lives out of all those visitors who don’t need one
I have actually been hit by one some years ago. The same person almost hit me twice in the same day, but I was on the lookout. 🙂
I’ve been hit once in a shop and also had an old lady sound her horn furiously at me as |I was holding her up on the footpath. 🙂
I am seriously considering it. 🙂