Lakeland Dipper 87

Ullswater
Another practice dip...
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Goodness gracious...it was rough out there today ...nearly a mile I think, hard to tell as it was more up and down than along...it felt like swimming the high seas. More lake inside me than out. I wonder if it will be like Flan O’Brien’s policeman and his bike and I’ll gradually be more lake than person ...

“The gross and net result of it is that people who spent most of their natural lives riding iron bicycles over the rocky roadsteads of this parish get their personalities mixed up with the personalities of their bicycle as a result of the interchanging of the atoms of each of them and you would be surprised at the number of people in these parts who are nearly half people and half bicycles...when a man lets things go so far that he is more than half a bicycle, you will not see him so much because he spends a lot of his time leaning with one elbow on walls or standing propped by one foot at kerbstones.”

(Great programme on Christo as I write this)