Re: a right bastard of a grazed knee.

AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:

On 3/15/2025 4:41 AM, Roger Merriman wrote:

John B. <slocombjb@gmail.com> wrote:

On Fri, 14 Mar 2025 14:04:21 -0400, Zen Cycle <funkmaster@hotmail.com>
wrote:
 

https://newsthump.com/2025/03/13/entire-nation-united-in-its-desire-to-see-no-handed-cyclist-fall-off/

 
 
And on the same page:
"A Basingstoke man suffered an unprecedented hardship this morning
when he discovered his car windows covered in frost and, to his
horror, realised he had run out of de-icer, forcing him to manually
scrape the ice off like some sort of 18th-century peasant."
 
"an unprecedented hardship"! Life must be Hell in G.B. :-)
 

 
It is a joke site!
 
This said I do feel smug using my car which is an old Volvo and thus has
very strong heating and so frosty windows are essentially start car,
waiting briefly for the car to clear it!
 
No scraping required, clearly the bike is even less of hindrance!
 
Roger Merriman
 

 
I'm happy that you're happy but you merely have cool, not
actual cold.
 

At moment it’s definitely just cool was below freezing yesterday on way to
work at dawn but clear and sunny last few days which tends to make it feel
warmer than the absolute temperatures, but London and South East England
weather is even for Uk rather mild.

Snow is a fairly uncommon event was some mild bits in the woods hence
London has so few snowplows, mattter of handful so if it does snow the
transport network struggles bar the underground and so on.

On the whole London and area doesn’t cope well if and when it snows, my
wife used to proudly say on “Roger will pick me up” as Wales does regularly
get snow even now so I learnt to drive in snow growing up and wasn’t
troubled by it.

I remember a new boy started at school and was excited as we’d had snow so
was assuming snow day! We said no the school buses come from a good 1000ft
higher than the bus stop and are higher than the School it’s self and would
need to many feet of snow before they’d call it a day!

Roger Merriman