Wednesday, 29 July 2009

Crash boom bang

As you could have probably predicted some bright spark had the idea that we hire these el cheapo Spanish mopeds and drive them around the rocky, scrabbly dustpaths around the locale of the villa.

It could have been a nice experience. Perhaps if we had the necessary helments and basic training. It would have also helped had we all been sober, but no. About 6 of us lived out our Evel Knievel fantasies for about 45 minutes before Caroline smacked into a foot high wall, went arse over tit and had to be taken off to Spanish A+E. Saphire and Sarah who were both relatively undrunk went to accompany the poor Caroline, whose leg was turning a funny colour that is normally associated with bubble bath rather than sunburnt, peeling flesh.

I just looked up from my book, shook my head and went back to reading it (Lovely Bones - Bit creepy though). The rest of us milled around guiltily looking like naughty schoolchildren until Caro came back with leg in plaster several hours later, and we all signed it with rude things.

It will be an interesting explanation when she gets back to work this week.

3 comments:

Sonia. said...

Lovely Bones is a wonderful book. I'm reading Dawn French's autobiography and it's brilliant!!

Sorry I've not been around at all- got myself one of these full-time job thingies and it really drains all the energy out of me!

RLJ said...

Tell me about it.

The only thing that has been good about being ill is that I have had more time off than I have since I finished my A levels.

Well done on getting that job though. It was tough competition this year from the sound of things.

Sonia. said...

Oh no, not the IAPT- which I'm actually glad about now. Just got a steady job working in a small business near where I live. I'm actually really enjoying it and enjoy having a structure to my week (despite the early mornings), plus it's nice to have a steady pay cheque- as shallow as that sounds!