The Journey Home.
You know how it is dear readers; you go away for a weekend and, what with all the fun, it passes Oh so quickly. However, this weekend away seemed to suffer from some sort of temporal inertia because the final few hours of the night appeared to pass really slowly as they do when you are cold and wet! However the morning finally dawned and we all decided to make an early start home so we packed up what little we had and left the campsite, no doubt to the relief of the remaining campers.
We sensibly decided to stop for some breakfast just before we got onto the New Forest end of the M27 where tea and toast fortified us for the journey home.
The journey itself was uneventful but the temporal inertial became worse, the colder I got...it was only a 2 hour (ish) trip but it seemed to take much longer as my temperature dropped. By the time I got home, I felt as if I'd aged years and I could barely get off the bike.
Salvation was at hand, however, in the guise of the continuous flow water heater over the bath, commonly known as a geyser. (As opposed to a geezer...THAT would be TOO weird!) The salvation works like this...you turn on the COLD tap and start to fill the bath whilst you are peeling of your wet clothes. By the time you are naked, the bath is about a quarter full. You get in and because you are wet and freezing anyhow, the water doesn't feel all that cold, in fact it probably feels slightly tepid. You turn off the cold tap and turn on the geyser to a slowish flow. The water in the bath gradually warms up, as do you. You get to a point in the process where you feel quite hot; you turn off the hot water at this point and you wait - as your body comes up to temperature, you begin to feel cold again so you turn the hot water on again. Repeat until you feel hot and remain hot. Do it slowly. No chilblains. Do it carefully. No scalding. Lie back, reminisce about the weekend and what you have started. Bliss.
Here endeth the inaugural meeting of the Honda 400/4 Owners Club, Sub Aqua Division. More Tales of Whoa! to follow soon.
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