This guy just got himself a beagle puppy:
Rookie error. If only he had asked me for advice first.
I can see that I’m going to have to set up some sort of pre-emptive advisory service for foolish individuals such as this.
That is, if I have time between repairing the garden and saving geckos from the jaws of our own huge mistake.
Altogether now…
“What a difference a day makes; Twenty-four little hours.
Brought the sun and the flowers,
Where there used to be rain.”
Except not.
Sadly, it seems that we’re doing things backwards down here in Cape Agulhas. Yesterday gave us this scene of the boy ‘togging whales (more of that when we’re back in Cape Town):
But today, I found myself walking the beagle and gazing out over an ocean that looked like this:
It was almost as if all the colour had been sucked away.
The snakes and the tortoises that we saw wandering around here yesterday have been replaced by snails and happily chattering frogs. Annoyingly chattering. Puff adders may be venomous and nasty, but at least they are quiet.
And then the recollection that I’ve promised to take the boy up the local hill on his bike in this grey mizzle. That is, once I’ve dried out from this morning’s exertions…
‘Turn Circle Line into giant travelator’, says NBBJ
No.
The firm says that its concept could help reduce travel delays and provide a more pleasant environment for commuters.
The proposal would see commuters step between three adjacent walkways running at different speeds, starting at 3mph and rising to 15mph.
A statement from the firm said: ‘When added to an average walking pace of 3mph, pedestrians would actually move faster on foot than today’s Circle Line trains, which must stop for boarding at each station.
But they’d be on foot.
Ugh.
“The result would be considerably quicker, more enjoyable and healthier journeys.”
Quicker? Possibly.
Healthier? Maybe.
More enjoyable? No. Not even a little bit. What on earth are you thinking?
Seriously, where can I get a job in which I get paid good money simply by coming up with absolutely ridiculous ideas loosely based around stuff we use every day? Because I think that I might be rather good at it.
How about a travel system getting you from Cape Town to Stellenbosch in record time, by trebuchet (would require huge pillow near Paarl), for example?
Or, a rival to Wumdrop, but using beagles? (You might get your stuff eventually, but it’ll be horribly chewed and actually, you won’t get your stuff.)
Both about as useful and plausible as NBBJ’s ridiculous flat escalator plan, above.
I took the beagle for a run on the beach this morning. One log later, this was the result:
I think she was having a good time.
