I’m going to Have It All
…with my brilliant new business venture: Chester Sherpas(TM). Watch out for me on Dragons’ Den soon! It Came to me in a flash yesterday as I pushed Maggie in a buggy (laden with off-balance shopping bags as well as a heavy child) with one hand while carrying an umbrella with the other; Tamsin was strapped to my front and the bag of “essentials” on my back. Available to roll out to other cities soon although Chester is particularly well-suited, blessed as it is with cobbles, sharp corners, the completely buggy-proof rows and large gangs of gawping tourists and loitering students who leap out in front of you without a second’s notice, necessitating wild and sudden changes in direction. I nearly lost control several times. (I mean literal control of buggy and/or umbrella not figurative control of my temper, although that did happen when I reached the new dentist to be confronted by a flight of stairs adorned with the magical sign “prams and buggies must be carried up these steps by two adults” (their emphasis). Was there another adult employed by them to stand by and assist? There was not.)
February 22nd, 2007 14:22
Brilliant idea! Are you going to get a double buggy at all? Those phil and ted ones look good!
February 24th, 2007 15:33
I have a double buggy, but haven’t used it yet and may well never do so (it was secondhand so doesn’t matter either way). To be honest Maggie hardly ever goes in a buggy these days: on this occasion it was pouring with rain and she was tired so it seemed the easier option than dragging her round by hand as I usually do.