only last weekend. i should point out that this weekend the snow has returned briefly and has given way today to that dreich awful rain that scotland is renowned for. but it was sunny once!
*an addendum to the above. bad weather may put me off going out on the bike but it doesn't stop me, at least not when the alternative is yet another session on the trainer. so, wet weather gear on and off i go. not another soul is out. it's not snowing but it is raining, and then more raining. and then wet roads turn into slushy roads and slushy roads turn into snowy roads. right about then is the time i start losing the feeling in my fingers. but that's okay because i'm on the turn to come back. there is a lot of flooding. suddenly up ahead i see a tractor. great, i think, i'll get in behind that and slipstream down the main road. which i do, just, and then realise the fine spray coming from the trailer is not road dirt from the wheels but is in fact some form of animal slurry. i ease back and try not to pay attention to the stuff running down my face. how was it t asks when i get back. worthwhile i say, but not joyful. and hurry to the shower...
5 comments:
It's that time of year!
gross, you really know how to put someone off cycling!! lol
just don't cycle behind the tractors in the wet!
You know it's bad when you take your glasses off afterwards and you've two pale rings around your eyes.
Thanks for the thought and the offer on the old radio! I better decline, though. It may still work, but it probably soon won't. A lot of these old sets have just reached a point where they really need tlc - and that means having a stock of the components needed, the patience, the knowledge... I tried fixing one up a while ago and gave up. A more competent well equipped person would probably jump at it, though.
no worries. there's a vintage radio forum i'll stick it up on. i stpped considering it when i discovered some of these things could still pack a fair charge!
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