Actually, that’s what I mean. I find the one thing to do when cycling in London is to always assume anyone, anywhere, is absolutely bent on killing you no matter how.
That will keep you constantly vigilant, and should be sufficient to keep you out of most things.
They are nice, low impact joint wise, exercise machines. I used to use one when I went to a gym and got one for home when I left.
As a low cost option I’d also recommend the BBC Couch to 5K app if you want to start running. Breaks you in very gently and builds up well so you get to the target. You can even have encouragement from one of the included celebs of your choice and it works nicely with other music apps on your phone too. I need to restart as I am lapsed 
That diminishes my confidence to such a low level. Just too much going on to keep on the safe path.
I do that while walking as well, that’s the level of the average road user in London. People somehow seem to be completely unable to function just walking, cycling, or driving, without being on a video call, Instagram, TikTok, or whatever shite it is nowadays.
I am not riding in London. My cousin knocked off her bike and she is an experienced bike rider. Also, my left pheripheral vision is not good.
Unless, the bike is stationary
Thanks guys 
I need to look after my health better. It has been hard losing mum. I lacked motivation doing anything. It is only this year, i was abit more social.
Oh yeah that’s probably not the best for you. Take care on the roads!
Not the healthiest dessert but I’m having gajar ka halwa before the home minister arrives back tomorrow from her vacation.
Today, I feel great irritation that a journalist on state TV, is calling this a boat without getting corrected by studio.
There is even an outrageous headline:
The world is doomed. Doomed, I tell you !
And we are supposed to be a so called Maritime Nation, but we have journalists using terminology as if they had never before seen an ocean and lived in the Himalayas.
Also, in unrelated personal news: My wisdom tooth is hurting less today, so penicilin works (again).
Seriously though, it’s a totally hilarious situation regarding that massive container ship. Much fun on the news today. The best part was the guy getting interviewed who lives in the house it crashed 4.5 meters from.
“Angry ? No, not at all. You just have to smile and sit back and truly enjoy the absurdity of the situation, since this is a once in a lifetime situation that I will never get to experience again”.
Best interview ever !
The king in question:
His Royal Highness Johan Helberg:
And yes, he slept through it all (no, I am not joking). His explanation was that it was likely “not a big sudden crash, but more of a deep slow rumbling”
Live life like Johan.
Also, even more fun. It ran aground when it was high tide. Meaning that getting it off ground, is not very easy, lol. Aaand, to make it worse. It has dug into the fjord and guess what the local seabed there is ? Clay 
Much fun. I wish every news day in Norway was like this.
She sounds more like the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Watch out!
The Luftwaffe are doing training today so we have had a few Eurofighters doing supersonic flights. We just had a sonic boom right overhead. You really don’t get any warning of them, which probably accounts for why I just saw both our cats doing a synchronised vertical take off and landing in the garden.
Perhaps this is a new type of Amazon / Temo delivery direct from the factory to your door? (Obviously, there might still be a few teething issues to sort out…)
Lovely story with the container ship. Didn’t take out a bridge. Error, ran aground, and the fella in the house is so chilled out about it all.
The world could do with more people with a disposition like he has.
Note the country where it happened. One of the nations which has been least brainwashed by the neoliberal “me, me, me” sense of entitlement.
People laugh when I go on about neoliberalism, but it really does infiltrate everyday behaviour and opinions.
I laugh because if I don’t, I’ll cry.
Snowflake.
Apologies, I haven’t been hardened by being around forever…
Continuing on the most important news story of the week (google translated to English, it just doesn’t look like it when I post it, because that is how google translate works).
The container ship crashing and almost killing Johan, has given him momentum and a new drive.
But it is not at all just bad, according to HMK Johan Helberg, the first of his name. You see, it provides “very good shelter from the Northern Wind”, which is very troublesome, he says. He notes happily that he now has the “largest Wind Screen a garden has ever seen” and:
And:
The rest of the article is equally glorious and I STRONGLY recomend everyone to read it so they can have a smile.
Johans biggest problem right now is the media, as he hasn’t have time to cook a proper meal, as he takes these interviews very seriously as an old bureaucrat, so he proof reads all interviews in foreign papers before they are published (as an old bureaucrat would naturally do).
Please read. It is good for the mind and soul, despite some words being mangled by google translation.
