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arrangement but on closer examination Rocks Green is a select development of environmentally friendly houses. I think we could do the “mentally friendly” bit but there our paths digress.
It is that time again when we focus on the challenge of the annual holiday to hot climes.
I
have shared some of my travel adventures with you in the past but this time I have been focussing on the pre-travel arrangements we all have to go through in order to make the actual journey less painless. We recently took out holiday insurance from a well-known supermarket chain at a very competitive price.
I have since read the small-
print. The good news is that we are covered for hijacking which is reassuring but only for £50 every 24 hours. Interesting to think how they worked out what was reasonable expenditure in such horrific circumstances. Lunch perhaps, a film and some duty-free goods and a toilet-roll are about all I can think of as being readily accessible. On closer examination I find we are not covered for avalanche though which may be an oversight on my part as we are going to Corfu in Julyit would be just my luck!
So let us consider the farce that is the luggage allowance. Having already established with the online booking computer that two of us were going for 2 weeks it then asked me whether we were taking any luggage. The temptation to say that as naturists, that would be a step too, far flashed across my mind (no pun intended) but would have been wasted on the booking android. Having confessed to being luggage fetishists (you try saying that), we were then charged £96 for the privilege of not walking around naked for a fortnight. The prospect of 20 kilos each for me and the current Mrs Nolan was too exciting for words. I don’t know about you but I have not yet gone metric so I was already struggling to visualise what 20 kilos felt like. In previous years I have hit on a fool-proof way of ensuring we do not pay extra baggage costs and you can try this top-tip at home. Weigh yourself on the bathroom scales then weigh yourself carrying the full suitcase. Take one from the other and there you have the weight of your luggage, in theory.
In practice it is
not that simple if you are of a certain age. Here is what usually happens:
• Weigh myself (non-digital scale), and cannot see the dial as the disc is still moving and I cannot read
it without my glasses on. • Repeat the exercise with glasses on which still involves bending down to focus on the result.
53 • Sit down to ponder what has happened to my
weight since this time last year. • Weigh again and then blame the scales. • Pick up the suitcase and repeat the exercise except it is very difficult to balance on the scales
with the case in one hand. • Put case on head to level the balance out and gingerly look down to peer in hope at the scale which is now barely readable, particularly as I have
taken my glasses off. • Put case down, put glasses on, put case on head
and lean forward to see result. • Topple over with case. • Repeat with other case and have a lie down in
darkened room. • Stand next to two 20 stone people in the queue at check-in and wonder what all the fuss was about.
Continuing the theme, I read with great interest the other day about the recent publication of the Welsh Health Survey 2012 which found that 34% of Welsh children were overweight and an impressive 19% had managed to graduate to clinically obese. What a surprise!
It amuses me when these surveys are
commissioned since the outcomes are invariably known beforehand and so I have concluded that they must be commissioned for the benefit of those carrying out the survey as a means of reducing the level of unemployment.
I don’t know about you but
I am struggling to remember the results of a single survey which made me think, “Well, I would never have guessed that”.
I think I almost managed to avoid writing about rugby in this article but only because this week has seen me attending a Junior Cup Final (well done the victorious under 14’s Blues Cup Winners), attending our own Committee meeting and one for Cardiff and Vale Youth followed by a seven-a-side tournament on the Saturday. Nice to be winding down for the Summer. ( Also, very well done to the under 12`s who lost in their Blues Cup Final by the narrowest of margins, 17—18, to a strong Pontypridd side).
If you have any opportunities, questions, issues or ideas please do not hesitate to contact us at the Clubhouse on : 029 20 460461 or e-mail:
root@stpetersrfc.co.uk
Best wishes
Vince Nolan Director Of Rugby
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