Wednesday was great - was feeling the burn on some of my less used muscles, but managed 1200m. Today . . well . . . I was dashing around this morning trying to find my togs. They weren't in their normal place because our washing machine broke down (another story - see below :-)) and chaos had ensued with the washing.
While on the phone to hubby, trying to find out if he knew where they were (yeah - I know - a lo-o-o-ng shot) S9 thrust them into my hands and we dashed out the door, onto our bikes and off to the schwimmbad.
I got the kids all ready and then pulled out my togs to get changed. Well . . . you should know that my togs are an aqua-blue two-piece. Not a kini!! But a generously long top and undies! I stared in horror at what S9 had given me - the bottoms were good, but in our haste she had given me the top off one of THEIR togs!! Needless to say - they are a size 10 (childs!!) The daughter of a friend of ours in NZ had given them to the girls before we left (thanks Jorgi!!).
Soooo, what to do??? Here I am, having paid 5 euros to get into the schwimmbad and not having any togs!! Or do I?? So I eyed up the top, gave it a s-t-r-e-t-c-h and figured it was worth a try. First try - over the head . . . Nup! That didn't work! Gave it a bit more of a s-t-r-e-t-c-h . . . tried the over-the-butt method. Hmmm. Ok. Got it over the important parts - even if they were overflowing a little out the sides! So I managed to stretch the straps on and . .. voila!!! Who never said I wasn't a size 10!!!!
Needless to say, I wrapped a towel round me, made a dash for the pool and did my laps, hoping the oldies swimming beside me really had poor eyesight, because the top didn't really stretch over the rolls too well!
But then hey - we live in Europe and pretty much anything goes!!!!!Back to the washing machine! Just when we think we are getting ahead - something else breaks down! Because it's a front loader,
we couldn't open the door to get the washing out as there was still water in the machine! But B40 - the handman that he is - managed to sort it out! And, after a flood on the floor (creating more washing that we can't wash!!) he got it in bits! Seems like the pump is broken. On advice from some friends, we didn't call a repairman (they charge 80 euros just for the priviledge of visiting and looking) he ordered a new part himself (75 euros + tax + a fee to take the money from your account - so around 100 euros all up!!). This should arrive Monday! Meanwhile we have to whip our washing down to Steiger to do it in their machines! One of those days!!
2 comments:
Honey inside all of us is a size 10 just trying to get out. Well this was your turn for that size 10 to get out and it sounds like it got out all over the place. You could have just gone topless and they wouldnt have cared! funny story, thats something you wouldnt have done in your local pool in NZ, so see, you are "stretching your character" so to speak!!!
Oh my goodness Katarina!!! It reminds me of a certain lime green top you S-T-R-E-T-C-H-E-D over your top half at Shine 06!!! Kimi you've still got a hot bod! Sorry to hear your washing machine blew a fu fu valve.
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