I was wondering if I was going to get out on the bike this morning, what with today being the day for this week’s gale, and twitter being all of a twitter about 100mph winds without even so much as an amusing hashtag to suggest it wasn’t that serious. The police were warning motorists to stay at home but they didn’t say anything about cyclists so when the rain stopped and the sky cleared, even though it was still (as they say) blowing a hooly, I decided to risk it. I actually quite enjoy cycling through high winds as long as I’m on quiet back roads, and I reasoned that any trees that were thinking of falling over this winter must surely have done so by now. Out I went for an exhilarating and invigorating ride (8mph on the way out, 12.5 on the way back) and came back just as the weather got really grim feeling pretty pleased with myself.
It wasn’t till the other half ventured out to Tesco and returned that we realised that there were three trees down between here and Bigtown. Clearly some of our local trees have been just hanging on and hoping for spring – but couldn’t quite hold out any longer.
I’m beginning to know how they feel.
I was riding to work this morning in the dark through it, sometimes its better that you can’t see what’s going on around you in bad weather!
It was raining very hard last night when I set off for work, so I did not cycle, but i did ride the motorbike. This morning the wind was howling, and I stupidly rode it home. Lucky for me there was not much traffic about, the wind nearly had me off three times.
when I got home I advised my wife to walk as it was to risky to cycle. She told me not to be a baby and off she went on her bike, later she said she had no problems, although it must be admited she is much thinner then me.
John
Ps like the socks
I think the worst of it was overnight/early morning….
It was rather dark and very blowy, but not raining as I set-off for Aldi.
Much better than I thought it would be.
Is it time for a bridge update, please?
too miserable to go and look but last time we were there the sign was still there and the ford was running at 6 inches