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Oct. 18th, 2010 09:46 amI am currently dripping wet and covered in bits of burnt bike. The two are not connected.
As to the latter, the poor charred item is not mine; one of my usual bike parks has the remains of a bicycle bonfire at it this morning. Given that it's right beside a building site's plastic portaloo I'm not sure whether to be glad they aimed small or worried that they'll get more ambitious. With any luck it's just a manifestation of pre-November the fifth fireworks idiocy. My part of the world has already started to sound like a warzone (instead of just looking like one, which is the normal state of affairs) and it'll only get worse over the next few weeks.
The former condition simply represents the fact that dull, dreich, windy, cold autumn is starting to shade into dull, dreich, windy, colder winter. So far the temperature is the main difference, and an ever-less-favourable ratio of grey days to blue - but the mid-range forecast suggest that we're getting a special delivery straight from the arctic next week. Snow! Maybe...!
As to the latter, the poor charred item is not mine; one of my usual bike parks has the remains of a bicycle bonfire at it this morning. Given that it's right beside a building site's plastic portaloo I'm not sure whether to be glad they aimed small or worried that they'll get more ambitious. With any luck it's just a manifestation of pre-November the fifth fireworks idiocy. My part of the world has already started to sound like a warzone (instead of just looking like one, which is the normal state of affairs) and it'll only get worse over the next few weeks.
The former condition simply represents the fact that dull, dreich, windy, cold autumn is starting to shade into dull, dreich, windy, colder winter. So far the temperature is the main difference, and an ever-less-favourable ratio of grey days to blue - but the mid-range forecast suggest that we're getting a special delivery straight from the arctic next week. Snow! Maybe...!
