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Grateful for: Arm rests on golf carts that stop you falling out
Trying hard to accept: I’m officially retired. No idea what day it is.
It’s 4am and I’m rewriting this post from memory after karma caught up with me and paid me back for something bad I did 14 weeks ago and wiped all my posts.
Luckily I’ll be near The Villages sales office again today so will be able to sink into one of the 100s of plush chairs in one of the many parlours, libraries, dens and phone booths with sofas in them when I need a sleep.
- Any of you who have ever worked with me know how much I love a bulleted list.
- Prepare yourselves.
- The sun seems to have gone the same place as my missing posts.
- Almost turned blue on the walk home from the pool this morning. But then again, I do support National so probably my own fault.
- Once I’d donned 4 layers, I pretended I was Peter Fonda.
- Without hair.
- And went zooming around with Orris in his golf cart.
- One of the places he showed me was this rec centre.
- It’s one of about 12.
- Each one’s decorated in a different theme.
- This one is Cape Cod nautical, reminiscent of staying at the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port.
- Yes, I have stayed there.
- They invited me last visit.
- Sucker!
- Then after a Thai chicken salad bigger than your average rooster, it was all aboard for Ben, Georgia and me.
- As we took in a free tour of The Villages.
- Designed to push those fence-sitting, would-be buyers over the line.
- The tour guide was from Queens, Noo Yok.
- Which put a smile on my face.
- This is one of 10 tour trolleys.
- Custom made in Illinois.
- At $180,000 each.
- Gulp.
- Really interesting tour actually.
- Best bit was seeing a polo game in action.
- This man is not a member of the Royal Family waving at his subjects.
- But a suspiciously young-looking resident watching the game.
- Which you can also see if you squint real hard.
- Then blow me down if it wasn’t time for Thai Take Two.
- I would show you a picture of what I ate but it was tofu covered in peanut sauce.
- And you can imagine what that looks like photographed.
- Buenas noches.
- Which is ‘good night’ in Spanish.
- The language of the international polo set.
- Or ‘good neigh-t’, if you’re the horse.