The Beatson Park Fig - No Longer a Stranger
Eltham said I'd never do it. Then in E'bo irony he was there to witness it...
Yesterday Sal, Sim, Eltham and I went to climb that fig I've wanted to climb for years! (The fact that this climb had been on my to-do list for years is what makes the event blog-worthy.) The bottom branches were way higher than they'd appeared in my hundreds of drive-bys, and the whole tree was even bigger than I'd thought. Simon was the most monkey of us, climbing from the ultra fat base of an ultra long branch to the very end where it got thin enough to bend under his weight & lower him to the ground. Very entertaining.
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This morning as I was waiting to see the doctor, there was a whole bunch of other people standing there playing the waiting game too. About enough people to play the roles of the various characters in a Cube-esque movie. And all sorts too - which is probably why I started getting Cube-esque scenarios in my head. You know - you're all standing there saying nothing, doing next to nothing... so you start thinking about which character is really going to get on your nerves in this Cube-esque life-threatening situation. There are a few candidates. And then there's the frail old lady who'll need a boost every time the group enters a different room - especially if it's one of those weird anti-gravitational ones. Stoopid anti-gravitational rooms. There's the guy with his baby in a pram. That's always gonna be a worry. I think the baby would cause more problems than it would solve in this whole let's-solve-the-mystery-of-the-Cube team effort thing.
This morning as I was waiting to see the doctor, there was a whole bunch of other people standing there playing the waiting game too. About enough people to play the roles of the various characters in a Cube-esque movie. And all sorts too - which is probably why I started getting Cube-esque scenarios in my head. You know - you're all standing there saying nothing, doing next to nothing... so you start thinking about which character is really going to get on your nerves in this Cube-esque life-threatening situation. There are a few candidates. And then there's the frail old lady who'll need a boost every time the group enters a different room - especially if it's one of those weird anti-gravitational ones. Stoopid anti-gravitational rooms. There's the guy with his baby in a pram. That's always gonna be a worry. I think the baby would cause more problems than it would solve in this whole let's-solve-the-mystery-of-the-Cube team effort thing.
Anyway... Just read John Dickson's If I Were God, I'd End All the Pain again. I'd remembered it being a good lil book & thought it might be cool to read again before lending, since some people here are having some issues with the idea of a good God, given all the poop in the world. It really is a helpful lil book for a quick read.
'Tis all for now. Too much junk in brain.
posted by J @ 1/13/2005 02:35:00 PM
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