"I'll admit I may have seen better days, but I'm still not to be had for the price of a cocktail, "(Margo Channing)
El Camino del Rey
Today I will be ringing round to get some quotes organised for the repair of the chimney pot.
I know I should be able to climb a ladder and rectify the problem myself, but I cannot climb something over perhaps 6 feet or so!
I am terrified of heights, always have been and although many years ago I actually did a parachute jump, I have never lost that ice cold sickly feeling when my feet are not fully on mother earth!
This video ( nicked from Craig) is hypnotic as it is stomach churning
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I, too, am afraid of heights - about the only thing that really terrifies me. If I go to the football I have to take seats on the 'apron' area as anything in the 'nose bleed' area terrifies me! (Ever seen a grown man on all fours crawling towards the exit from a balcony seat in a stadium! LOL!)
ReplyDeleteMigawd - I couldn't watch all of it - got as far as where the other walker said "Hi!" and waved the camera operator on! I guess when you get to the top you then have to come down? And those holes in the concrete, loose stones, no safety rail, rotten steel - Yuck!
ReplyDeleteI started to wobble just sitting in my chair, I don't 'do' heights very well either.
ReplyDeleteWe had new chimney pots replaced last year, it wasn't cheap.
~Jo
I went there last summer john - the people that walk it are bloody mad!
ReplyDeleteI don't like heights either and that made my stomach churn. I think that's the word for it. Hope you had a nice weekend other than making us all dizzy.--Inger
ReplyDeleteI'm with you, John. I'm not afraid of heights, but ladders, ugh!
ReplyDeleteOK, now I am confused, what part is the chimney pot?
ReplyDeleteWow- that video is amazing!
ReplyDeleteI didn't watch it. I'm afraid of heights, too.
ReplyDeleteIt would have made my toes tingle and I'm already having trouble getting to sleep tonight.
Good luck with the estimates, John. Maybe you can trade some eggs for the job. :)
It is funny the things that terrify us. My son, from as far back as I can remember, has had a huge problem with heights. I've never mibnded heights, but what does scare the bejeezus out of me are bees and wasps. Even dead ones or the ones in the fully enclosed plexi-hives. I get queasy just thinking about them. When I was perhaps 9 years old, I visited my step-grandparents farmhouse, which hadn't been lived in in years (they still farmed the land, but lived "in town".) I remember going upstairs to look around, and I walked into a bedroom that was full of wasps. some flying around, a huge hive on the ceiling, and hundreds and hundreds of dead ones all over the floor. (There was a broken window, and apparently not all of them were smart enough to figure out how to get outside.) I remember standing transfixed in terror in the doorway, screaming a scream that would have made Alfred Hitchcock weep with joy. My step-grandmother came flying up the stairs, and proceeded to ring a peel over my head... apparently she figured there had to be a dead body up there, not just a few wasps. She never understood how terrifying that event was for me. There is a fabulous farmers market that I want to paticipate in this year, it is on a working hobby farm, with all sorts of fabulous vendors, but they have an apiary on the grounds, and I just don't know if I can deal with that.
ReplyDeleteWOW!!!!!!!
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ReplyDeletethere is a large crack in the pot that has fallen inwards and half blocked the chimney!
It's the lader that would get to me, I'd quite happily sit on the roof but I'd have to be air lifted!
ReplyDeleteUrrgh! Barf! Barf! That is one tourist attraction I shall never experience! The walkway is scheduled for repairs beginning in the middle of this year.
ReplyDeleteSmart man! Get the experts in!
ReplyDeleteNo way could I do that. I too am super afraid of heights. One time I was skiing and freaked out, took off my skis and WALKED down the hill. Carefully of course.
ReplyDeleteRon and I watched 127 Hours this weekend, the true story of the adventurer / canyoneer who got his arm wedged in a boulder and had to cut it off with a pocket knife.... OMG.............
ina..... the lastest walt disney feature?
ReplyDeleteI'm terrified of heights too, so, I'm not going to watch it lest I have an embarrassing accident.
ReplyDeleteMy parents showed me this a while ago, and it still freaks me out.
ReplyDeleteI'm with you... I hate heights.. you should have come with me to do the zip line.
ReplyDeleteThese people are NUTS...and can you imagine being the first workers putting that path in..OMG! I think you're smart getting someone else to fix your chimney pots John. Hope your day is a good one.
ReplyDeleteMaura :)
That thing scared the crap out of me!
ReplyDeleteAre they mental?!!! OK......I feel well and truly sick now. Won't be going there any time soon.
ReplyDeleteSheila