Hum. Have just finished changing my rear wheel on my new bike as some careless or malicious idiot had scattered nails on the road on the way to dancer_man's house. Thought I'd gotten away with it until I came out of his house and the tyre was flat as a pancake ( Read more... )

So, we weren't at Maelstrom this weekend, for the very good reason that we've barely been home for a month, and certainly haven't both been home at the weekend for approximately ¾ of a yonk, so doing the whole Maelstrom thing, fun though it is would probably have been bordering on suicidal. However, Maelstrom is on again, for the last event of the ( Read more... )

It's been a couple of weeks since I started to use my Ikea Clown Bike more regularly, and I've been rather stunned at the number of complete strangers who've engaged me in conversation about it. So far, I've had:

1. A bloke ask me about it while I was folding it up in the stairway up to the station
2. A kid on a bike described it as a 'sick bike' and ( Read more... )

Yesterday was a bit odd. I worked from home so I could let in the second plumber-recommended by midnightoak's boss-who had a quote to beat - £1500 for new boiler + £400 for new radiator. However, he immediately offered to take apart the boiler, and fixed it for £52.88 inc. VAT, thus rather endearing him to me. The house is now warm ( Read more... )

An accident at Pannal Station delayed me into work this morning. I can't get too angry with the railway companies when these things happen; they're hardly predictable ( Read more... )

On the train to work as I type. Primary excitement so far this week is that I
have a new bike, to replace my old racer which has, sadly, gone the way of all things. Features of new bike include 6 indexed gears, a luggage rack, and not being a fast-but-no-visibility-racer-with-suicidally-poor-brakes. It also has messianic delusions, according to a ( Read more... )