Normal service has been resumed - for two days only
It has been raining every day this last week which has meant no cycling to work. Interesting I have noticed that my fuel bill has gone up 20%! Which makes perfect (if slightly financially alarming) sense as I have been cycling at least one in every five working days every other week so far this year. Luckily petrol is cheaper (and as it happens more abundant) than water here in Australia. No wonder Jonny Howard has seen it fit to send FIFTY (approx) Australian soldiers to Iraq to help ensure we can continue to drive gas guzzling V8s for many years to come. Good job John!
Anyway, where was I, oh yes the weather, well luckily the weather has got back to normal over the weekend. It has been over 32oC both days which strangely feels 'normal'. When I lived in England and it reached a modest 24oC I would be sweating like a paedo whose address has just been publish on the front page of the Daily Mail. It seems my body is adjusting to this desert weather rather quicker than I was anticipating. Good news I guess.
To make up for my lack of two wheeled action this week I went for a Saturday afternoon ride (in the burning sun – a slight pommie mistake I admit now), I rode randomly, without a map, around the North shore and ended up at the bottom of a huge hill at a suburb called “Castlecrag”. Now it might be my imagination but wasn’t there a computer game in the 80’s called ‘Castlecrag’? Either way, it was a lovely place with some very posh houses. Whether the rich people choose to live there for the spectacular views or the cool address I don’t know.
Anyway, where was I, oh yes the weather, well luckily the weather has got back to normal over the weekend. It has been over 32oC both days which strangely feels 'normal'. When I lived in England and it reached a modest 24oC I would be sweating like a paedo whose address has just been publish on the front page of the Daily Mail. It seems my body is adjusting to this desert weather rather quicker than I was anticipating. Good news I guess.
To make up for my lack of two wheeled action this week I went for a Saturday afternoon ride (in the burning sun – a slight pommie mistake I admit now), I rode randomly, without a map, around the North shore and ended up at the bottom of a huge hill at a suburb called “Castlecrag”. Now it might be my imagination but wasn’t there a computer game in the 80’s called ‘Castlecrag’? Either way, it was a lovely place with some very posh houses. Whether the rich people choose to live there for the spectacular views or the cool address I don’t know.
posted by Nurton at 8:41 PM
2 Comments:
No cycling to work because its raining??? Wussy antipodean!
Kev T
My tyres are slicks! Well that's how they appear to me anyway and if Schumacher refuses to go out on track when it is wet with slicks, then I think I am justified in being scared of the wet too. And before you start quoting facts, one for you.... my HUGE quad muscles may not produce 900+bhp but they sure as hell produce more torque than a F1 car!
Also, I actually got called a Wussie by an antipodean this weekend... what a coincidence!
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