#1 realising halfway round your route that, actually the back roads roads are QUITE slippy in places, what with the slush that is freezing again now it's dark.

#2 and that your bike is fitted with Schwalbe Kojak tyres. Which may not be the MOST suitable for these conditions:

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argh. the clocks change tonight. STEALING MY SLEEP. BRITISH SUMMERTIME IS STEALING MY SLEEP. WHEN I RULE THE WORLD, TIME WILL BE IN BASE TEN AND THERE WILL BE NO SLEEP-THEFT PERMITTED!

work this week was wayyyy more tiring than i realised. zonk-a-RAMA today. but lo! i did some useful things. i have ordered a new saddle for my bike. it is ( Read more... )

for reasons best known to - um - me? last week i got the ferry to stranraer and cycled home for christmas (i flew the bike back for a £20 surcharge in its shiny new box). which only took a couple of days and was only 120 miles. which would have been FINE if scotland hadn't decided to be a bit colder than usual. (stupid lowlands!) p.s. all ( Read more... )

am in a weird place right now where i want to read fic (and would really like to actually try and write something but appear to be blocked on all fronts. please come back, crack?) but can't seem to settle to it. and when i do, it seems my feedback is broken. *eyes the open tabs now open on multiple lines* only tabmix gives me hope that i will get ( Read more... )

i have been mainly awol since thursday as my mother has been visiting. mothers are very tiring. she has now departed by ferry, this morning, after a detour to courthouse where i successfully persuaded them to let me defer my jury service until june. thank fuck!

( boring weekend stuff (entertaining female parent stressful: may have told the lesbians-in-the-lobby story after several glasses of wine. it seemed like a good idea at the time.) )