Working and Cycling
Life has been busy just lately purely with the normal workaday world. Whether cycling or not, I'm up at 6am and into work nice and early, either to get some breakfast and a good parking space, or to get a hot shower, park the bike and gear safely and make myself respectable in time for 9am. I work away like a busy bee until it's time to go home, and then get home either by about 5.30pm or 6.30pm depending on mode of travel. It's a long but enjoyable day.
Working hard and cycling hard is not giving me much scope for getting into mischief. The dark evenings don't encourage me (as ever) to do a lot with the evenings - I am looking forward to the lighter, warmer evenings. The weather this month has been very unpredictable. We've had snow, rain, hard frost, brilliant sunshine and afternoon warmth enough to enable sitting outside for hours at a time.
I've had all sorts of shenanigans on the bike; a disconnected brake cable which resulted in my having to ride to work with the brake shoes open and the cable looped over the mudguard to keep it out of the way (!), a gash in my rear tyre that was oozing Slime from the tube which miraculously held it's pressure all the way home, the bulb in my front light blowing and the subsequent journey home in the pouring rain lit only by my Petzl Head Torch and lastly but not least the heavens opening just as I begin my journey home releasing a relentless and torrential downpour which I refused to be beaten by (I had my Seal Skinz on!).
I have developed a habit of cleaning, fettling and lubing my steed in a Saturday morning session that is starting to resemble alarmingly the suburbanite's habit of washing the car each weekend. I often get scolded by the blackbirds at the bottom of the garden for my intrusion and the local cats find my antics fascinating.
I'm looking forward to the warmer evenings when loitering by the river or supper in a country pub can become part of my journey home!
Working hard and cycling hard is not giving me much scope for getting into mischief. The dark evenings don't encourage me (as ever) to do a lot with the evenings - I am looking forward to the lighter, warmer evenings. The weather this month has been very unpredictable. We've had snow, rain, hard frost, brilliant sunshine and afternoon warmth enough to enable sitting outside for hours at a time.
I've had all sorts of shenanigans on the bike; a disconnected brake cable which resulted in my having to ride to work with the brake shoes open and the cable looped over the mudguard to keep it out of the way (!), a gash in my rear tyre that was oozing Slime from the tube which miraculously held it's pressure all the way home, the bulb in my front light blowing and the subsequent journey home in the pouring rain lit only by my Petzl Head Torch and lastly but not least the heavens opening just as I begin my journey home releasing a relentless and torrential downpour which I refused to be beaten by (I had my Seal Skinz on!).
I have developed a habit of cleaning, fettling and lubing my steed in a Saturday morning session that is starting to resemble alarmingly the suburbanite's habit of washing the car each weekend. I often get scolded by the blackbirds at the bottom of the garden for my intrusion and the local cats find my antics fascinating.
I'm looking forward to the warmer evenings when loitering by the river or supper in a country pub can become part of my journey home!
posted by Catherine at 20:27
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