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4 March - Ski Boots, Rats, and Mice
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Took Kate to the airport on Monday yet again. This time she went off to
Champery in Switzerland to cook in a chalet for a week.
We got up at 0445 as she likes to be a good two days early in the departure
lounge. She can usually read quite a thick book during this time and always
takes at least three in her bag for a week away. This time she skimped as
she was taking her ski boots too. She was muttering a lot about how she
hates skiing and she was going to be cooking all day anyway for her
friends, who are very nice but are terribly, terribly rich. One of the main
reasons for marrying her was that she was a very good skier.
She hasn't used the ski boots since the early nineties; they were state
of the art in 1989 but are now definitely retro. We checked them to see
if the rats or mice had eaten the insides as the inside of a Salomon
SX91E is well known to gourmand rats and mice as the icing on the
gateaux as far as three star eating goes. They were spotless if a bit
musty and I could tell she was a little disappointed.
I said goodbye to her and hoped she had a good week and that the skiing
was good. 'I've told you - I hate skiing - I'm not going to enjoy this
one little bit!!'. With that she strode off towards the
magnificent facade of the John Lennon Airport entrance, where I could
see a few early morning smokers discreetly puffing away in the raw
Mersey air. |
Very rare SX91 Equipes |
Usually I don't hear from her for a couple of days but last night I got
a text which said 'Guess what - skied all day....!!'
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