tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1974136243843420156.post7053777340521781911..comments2023-05-05T12:03:15.544+01:00Comments on Mick's Mountain: Fly BoyMickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13346435407924117442noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1974136243843420156.post-87932561656732218752007-06-17T12:33:00.000+01:002007-06-17T12:33:00.000+01:00Hi Tim! Thanks for the comment. Good point about ...Hi Tim! Thanks for the comment. Good point about the skiing and F1. Perhaps I should have also added something about simplicity as well (i.e. not needing a lift/piste infrastructure or a multimillion pound 30 man team behind you). The two words parents and rich in the same sentence don't compute. Which, I might add, I'm fairly pleased about. Keep the comments coming.Mickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13346435407924117442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1974136243843420156.post-10238963091803059512007-06-17T01:22:00.000+01:002007-06-17T01:22:00.000+01:00Hi Mick,Thought I'd leave a couple of comments (as...Hi Mick,<BR/>Thought I'd leave a couple of comments (as you asked for them!)<BR/>The risk thing is odd. What you say about being uncomfortable with the things outside of your control makes sense, especially when you're unnaturally hanging hundreds of feet in the air in a metal tube - but it must be quite a fine distinction between taking risks that you've minimised (eg your disappearing into mountains on your own)and not taking what's essentially an optional risk, at all. IE You've found the level of risk that you enjoy, and it's somewhere below the level of playing russian roulette but above the level of no risk at all.<BR/>And while I'm at it... whoever told you that downhill skiing didn't take much graft, and come to that, I don't think you'll find many F1 drivers that you'd beat over 1500m!! (You've only got to do a couple of endurance karting events to get a feel for how fit they need to be).<BR/>Having said that, I am (as you probably know) largely with you, in that I enjoy 5-a-side, squash, cycling and running a lot more than snooker, darts and dominoes; I also like to trim hedges and lawn edges by hand, and on the rare occasion I wash my car (which is NOT the same as anyone on the apprentice!) that's by hand too. I don't think it's really money related - though perhaps if your parents were very rich you might not know how to do some of these things - but for things like washing the car, I do it by hand because I'll make a better job of it than a machine (or a spotty teenager in a garage or supermarket car-park etc.Tiny Timhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15027929267326699800noreply@blogger.com