it never rains but it….

….pours… and heck did it lash it down in the thunderstorms last night. I padded downstairs at 4.30am this morning in search of water and got more than I bargained for in that I was ankle deep in the stuff. Brilliant, I do like an early morning swim but generally prefer to travel to the water rather than have the water travel to me… My initial reaction was to go back to bed and hope the bad dream would go away but in the end I could not ignore the generally wet aspect and spent the next three and half hours moving as much water as I could back where it belonged outside. By 8am there was bugger all else I could so rather than mope around I figured I may as well go to work and call the insurers from there… leaving my dehumidifier on full chat.

I usually cycle to work, but this morning I made a fateful decision that as I was running late I would go in the car. Bad move… totally preoccupied by events at home, and in poor light (still raining) I managed to crash my car into the back of another car…a particularly stealthy black car that I didn’t see… but nevertheless it shouldn’t have happened… and had I been on the bike I might have been late for work but I would arrived totally de-stressed from a bad start to the day instead of even more wound up from a really bloody awful start to the day. Proof positive that a bike is the only way to go…. So there ya go, lesson learned. Bloody car. Bloody rain…. :-|

getting the bike out…

Most fortuitous though don’t you think that back in May I chose to spend the carpet money on that Greenland kayak rather than, errrrm, new carpets… truly prescient of me I think :-)