J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by AllyG

Ian,
That's O.K. then, I don't have a smart arse, not that you can see much of it in my avatar.

Ally

Ise,
I like mountains as well.

I always thought Psalm 121 meant that help does come from the hills, but the New English Bible version says not.

I prefer the King James version:
'I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills; from whence cometh help.' We have mountains here as well (very small ones) and I find it a great help looking at them as I drive into town.

Mountains seem to get a grip on one, which never really goes - I find the sea does the same for me as well. So I live between the mountains and the sea, which is just perfect for me, as Goldilocks would have said.

Thanks very much for your fantastic mountain photos - they are truly awesome, in the original meaning of the word i.e. they fill me with reverential wonder.

Ally

Ian and Pablo,
Yes it was me, how clever of you both to work that out. I knew you were a phony Colombian Pablo because you spelt it wrong. :lol:

Columbia is the one in Canada - in fact I've been there - Vancouver Island in British Columbia (but not ski-ing though, I went to a conference to celebrate the bi-centenary of Captain Cook's landing in Nootka sound).

Ally

My very limited knowledge of skis (I'm better on crop rotation) is that ideally you need different ones according to the conditions and what sort of ski-ing you want to do, after you've picked the right ones for your height and weight and pocket.

But, it would be somewhat impractical to go on a ski holiday with a dozen or so pairs of skis, and you'd need a very strong caddy/sherpa ski-ing behind with the spare ones.

So, you need to compromise, and either use a general purpose type, or put up with them not performing quite so well on powder/ice or whatever.

Personally, I hire mine, and all I do is tell them my height, weight, ski-ing ability and what I plan on doing. And I'm not good enough to know whether I'm ski-ing like XXX because of my skis or because I'm just a rubbish skier. So sometimes I notice my skis are slow, for example, and sometimes they are very fast, but I never know why. And it takes me a while to adjust to them.

But I don't know anything about ski construction. In fact, I thought they were all made of wood and metal (thank you Trencher for your excellent description). Next holiday I will try putting one on a desk and going Booooooing with it (as long as the teacher isn't watching!).

Ally

I can, I have a degree in agricultural botany,

Ally

Brandyaitch,
That's because the women do the managing, and I expect your wife is pretty good at it, if she's successfully managed you for 37 years :lol:

Ally

Rose,
I guess I've been lucky. My husband's pretty easy to manage. Clean clothes, food, as much freedom as he wants (apart from when I want a trailer for logs) and plenty of XXX, and he's happy enough.

Micric,
I think I'd count as an economy wife - I never asked for, or wanted an engagement ring. Total waste of money I reckon. And we bought the cheapest wedding ring in the shop for me. No big expensive wedding either - homemade food in the farm shed and meal out on the concrete with tables and chairs borrowed from the chapel, and 2 beer barrels in another farm shed. Actually, everyone reckoned it was the best wedding they'd ever been to. People still talk about it now, 25 years later.

Ally

Rose,
I know just what you mean, about husbands. Mine is out all day now driving tractors for other people, and all I wanted was for him to put a tractor and trailer in the yard so that someone could load up the logs from the huge trees we've had felled (I've damaged my arm lifting exceptionally heavy objects just lately - got to see the osteopath), but I had to nag him. If it was someone other than me asking, he'd have done it straight away.

I tell you what you could do - is phone up and book someone else to do you a porch etc. and then tell him. After he's yelled at you he'll probably do it himself. That's what I do. It helps if you put ear plugs in first :lol:

After 25 years of being married I could write a book on how to manage husbands.

Ally