Crime Fighting on a Bike

This is one of the guys at works website... I am loving the detectiveness.



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Really a hose pipe ban!!!

I rode home in the most torrential rain last night it was only 5 pm and the street lights came during one particularly bad down pour. I had no lights on and felt a tad vunrable I ended up stopping at the weirdest bike shop to get a front light, which after about 10 minutes of routing through piles of stuff during which time i had totally cooled down they just about managed to find 1... it also took two members of staff to serve me!

Back outside there were drain grates been pushed up from the force of the water swelling up from underneath, small children been swept away, people panic buying tinned food product and looting shops... well they could have been I couldn’t really more than 5 metres ahead.

I did reach a Zen type state as I realised I couldn’t be any wetter and as I ride the roads every day I knew where the pot holes were, even under the windermere’esque lakes that were covering the roads. If I had a car I would have been glad to be out of the rain but as it happened all the traffic ground to a complete halt both ways on the M60 meaning all the A roads were blocked as well I recon I got home before most of them anyway... losers. (I jest I do not think all car drivers are losers)

The surreal thing is though as I came up Warmsley Rd out of Bury the sun was blazing, it had rained earlier but mostly dried up and due to the cars all been stuck in traffic it was the quietest ride home I have ever had. The down side of this was I didn’t get any respect or sympathy from the other half, I was imagining him waiting all concerned like at the living room window perhaps a hot mug of coco in his hand, all I got was a casual alright and you’re a bit late aren’t you.

Miles covered loads plus some for ridding through really big puddles.

Markets of Britain, a short film by Lee Titt (via Serafinowicz and Popper)

Today this has been making me laugh a lot plus I have now lernt to post Vids!

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I had chips peas and gravey... Jim had chips n gravey. Mat went against democracy and had a pie, with chips oh and gravey then peas.

Need Technology

My blog is looking decidedly crap compared to other bloggers that commute, I have no mid week extra cycling adventures to report as I’m, too tired to do owt else once I get home.
My stories would start off with felt ace this morning on a Monday mid week feeling more tired to Friday where I would probably ramble on about Jaffa Cakes for a while before nodding of the sleep on my lap top.
My solution to this is technology I need to get pimped up with a computer and a techno phone...
I’m hoping that will motivate me a bit more!Then it will be super intersting stories of miles ridden, miles climbed and calouries burnt. I have worked out roughly that i burn a full chocolate orange each way to work, which to be honest is all the motivation this girl needs to keep peddling everyday!

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