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We all have a secret Super-Power.
MrM's secret Super-Power is punting:
he can make a punt obey his every command
while young whipper-snappers look on with admiration.
This means that MrsM has cultivated the ability
to lie gracefully in the punt,
admire the scenery
and wave to small children on the bridges.
Back off, ladies, he's mine.
MrM's secret Super-Power is punting:
he can make a punt obey his every command
while young whipper-snappers look on with admiration.
This means that MrsM has cultivated the ability
to lie gracefully in the punt,
admire the scenery
and wave to small children on the bridges.
Back off, ladies, he's mine..jpg)
He does, suddenly, have a romantic, nautical air about him.
ReplyDeleteI, however, am a master of the canoe!
(Ahem.) I've always thought a willingness to share with others is the mark of a fine character.
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Thank you for this post! You've just added to my visual understanding of one of Dorothy Sayers' Peter Wimsey novels. There are just some very (wonderful, fascinating, singular) English things that need a visual explanation. :)
ReplyDeleteYou and MrM can be stand-ins for the dashing and clever Lord Peter and his intelligent and lovely Harriet Vane.
Looks like that secret super-power requires enormous concentration. (Is he having fun? Or is that not allowed when super-powering?)
ReplyDeleteA magnificent super power. I was wandering across the Bridge of Sighs just this time last week.
ReplyDeleteSign of a mis-spent youth!
ReplyDelete(Shall we have the wrong end conversation now?)
Julie took the words right out of my mouth!
ReplyDeleteNow that IS a lifeskill.................
ReplyDeleteAny chance MrM is for hire? No one I know has any skill mastering a punt but I feel I could learn to lounge gracefully given the opportunity.
ReplyDeletehow English!
ReplyDeleteI've never been punting... (I've never been 'punted' either... oops that sounds ... wrong)
Oh gosh, you have taken me right back to my youth - I feel all sentimental and nostalgic now. There is something so wonderful about punting, and especially being the passenger wafted along. And at least now we are old enough to feel quite safe and secure, with no chance of any jolly japes leading to a ducking in the Cam. I remember that I always used to take care regarding what clothes and shoes I wore at parties which involved punts!
ReplyDeletePomona x
Did you dip your fingers gracefully in the water and hold a lace parasol? Perhaps your alter ego is Alice Bonham Carter?
ReplyDeleteHa! I have one of those punting types too, only mine stands on the right end.
ReplyDelete(Ducking and running away)
Uhoh. This comments section sounds like it contains the further shots in a long-standing skirmish. Is this the East coast version of the whole jam or cream first on top of scones thing over in the West Country.
ReplyDeleteperhaps I should exchange punting duties for a regular supply of coffee cake.
ReplyDeleteThe key to all this is a twist of the wrist at the end of the downstroke on the pole. Stops it getting stuck in the mud which is a beginner's mistake.
So today I learned something new: I had never heard of punting or punts.
ReplyDeleteLooks so romantic though ...
And, is that really MrM? I am flabbergasted, it is the first time I see his face ...
I don't think I have a super-power. MrM looks very confident in that punt, years of practice perhaps? Did you wear suitably elegant clothes whilst lounging?
ReplyDeleteThat is a fine super-power to have. I am in favor of any super-power involving boats.
ReplyDeleteI should point out that we were punted away from our wedding ... got someone else to do the job for me on that occasion though
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Oh Alice, you DO know how to make the very best of empty nesting. SO romantic! When we head out on the water it is in separate kayaks and I straggle behind trying to source my own superpower. For that, I wear spandex, hoping against hope it will give me just the right boost. xo
ReplyDeleteI should add that having gone to what was then an all female college I learned to punt too - though when Mr DC (and MrM too, I am sure) wields the pole, he does something clever to make sure the water doesn't run down his arm and soak his shirt. I haven't yet mastered that.
ReplyDeleteI did once get it very wrong and fall over - fortunately into the punt rather than into the Isis.
Mr M is a wonder. My Technical Advisor has many talents but none related to boating. The last time we travelled the Stour we reduced the eight year old to tears of terror and discovers that the eleven year old can row better than both of us.
ReplyDeleteI want to know if you languidly let your long and delicate fingers trail in the water. Did you sigh a very feminine sigh?
ReplyDeleteI'm very impressed with MrM's super-power.
ReplyDeletePunting looks like a lot of fun...and yes, so English!
Tricky skill to master without ending up in the drink, well done MrM, I am envisioning Alice Bonham Carter too ;-)
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