Various notes

[nineveh_uk]

I have only three weeks left at work until Christmas. This is both good and bad...

My colleague won't be in the office today because she is in Stockholm for a long weekend. A romantic long weekend with her new boyfriend, who is a barrister. Am I envious? Too right I am!

To the cyclist turning right last night on Woodstock Road in dark clothes, no bike lights or reflectors, and wearing a helmet: O HAI U BE DOIN SAFETY RONG!

Went to WNO's Barber of Seville last night at the New Theatre. Fun production and good singing, but the theatre decoration makes it feel like one is sitting inside a pink and red jukebox, and the leg-room in the balcony - ow! Ruddigore at the Barbican tomorrow.

My picowrimo production for the month has hit 8000! I am resolved to keep going and try and finish the story this time. Of course, it would help if it didn't just seem to be betting longer. For a story I think of as "Potterverse/Wimsey mpreg Corsican crossover (with bonus valet-rogering" we aren't yet anywhere near either mpreg or Corsica. Or rogering.

Comments

[alitheapipkin.livejournal.com]

I'm with you on helmets, I'm not a fan myself. I prefer to avoid the threat of being hit by a car and cycle on tracks/off road only, which largely negates the need for them in my opinion* - I've never fallen off a bike head first in my life!

*Well, the way I do it anyway - the Boy used to do competition downhill cycling and needed all the protective gear he could get for that!

Impressively irresponsible - I thought so too. I was quite boggled when she told me.

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

I loved cycling in Denmark, where it was all off-road on city routes, and various facilities outside the built-up areas - though the consciousness that car drivers were really alert to bikes was really one of the big things for me. I never saw the sort of behaviour by drivers that is routine on my journey to work and makes me feel unsafe cycling here.

[alitheapipkin.livejournal.com]

From the behaviour I see around here, and the number of times the Boy has been clipped by drivers* (mostly buses who apparently think they are bikes and like to use the cycle lane on the main road just down from my flat), no helmet in the world is going to make me feel safe cycling on the roads around here :( I would love to live somewhere with proper cycle lanes and considerate drivers!


*Fortunately not resulting in serious injury