always the bridesmaid.....
I spent the weekend in beautiful
Elora attending the wedding of a friend. I was a Low Level
Bridesmaid, meaning not much short of showing up was expected of me
and this was fine, I could relax and not really experience the
stress that is now part and parcel of a wedding.
The girl getting married lives close to me and is an avid cyclist,
she has a nifty high tech mountain bike and has on numerous
occasion tried to drag me along with her. I much prefer running
however as it rare that I fall down while running and highly likely
that I would ride into a tree or get thrown from my bike if I
cycled regularly.
Cycling was the product of an American
"fad", along with such fads
as miniature golf, danceathons, roller skating, Ouija boards and
the like. In the early years however, because of its popularity
amongst women, the Georgia Journal Of Medicine and Surgery
announced that cycling was an activity unfit for women. Apparently
the act of riding a bike would bestir "
Feelings hitherto
unrealized by the young maiden"