By: Blonde Two
On Friday night, I had to do an embarrassing bit of sewing. One of the seams of my favourite walking trousers had split around the derriere – around tout le derriere (suspicion of poor French here) in fact. There is no way that I can throw them away, as well as being my favourite, they are a size smaller than my usual effort and they make my aforementioned derriere look pretty good. No, my bum does not look big in this!
I think that the damage has happened because I have been sliding down rocks too often. This is not through choice but because I am becoming braver about scrambling up rocks. A thing to be celebrated, I am sure you will agree, but then I realise that my knees won’t do the reverse route without making major complaint. At this point, unless there is a big bloke handy to lean on (there never is), bottom sliding becomes the only way down. This is obviously sudden death to the sensitive trouser seam.
I am hoping that my trouser surgery will help me to keep my dignity for a while longer. In the meantime, just in case a gap should appear at an inopportune moment, I will stop wearing those bright red bloomers.
You’ve done it again – another reminisce (my dictionary says that word only exists as a verb). I paid the price for bum-sliding some time ago in an INCIDENT PACKED day. My car keys were in the rear trouser pocket high up above Long Sleddale, but not so after my bum sliding descent to the valley. That was very annoying at the time, but it produced one of my favourite posts (a bit of boasting here). See: http://conradwalks.blogspot.co.uk/search?q=car+keys
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WEDNESDAY, 10 OCTOBER 2012
A day of good and bad bits (River Sprint 3)
An excellent post and a bottom-sliding lesson for us all. What a most beautiful looking walk.
Hmm. I bought my lady a pair of PacLite overtrousers a year ago – these have had very little use ‘cos she prefers to use her Paramo Cascadas.
The first time these trousers were used in real anger (a couple of weeks ago on a rather long challenge walk in South Wales) they failed around the seams big time. The failure was down to friction I think, her knees rubbing together slightly as she walked. In addition the seat of the overtrousers is showing signs of premature failure.
Should she stop wearing her red bloomers too?
JJ
PS: the overtrousers have been returned to Berghaus for their inspection.
Maybe if all lady walkers wore red bloomers, the world would be a more fun place. I do like the kind of gentleman who knows that presents like overtrousers are exactly what a lot of ladies prefer.