Snowy, Snowy Weather Competition

. . . and a busy day. Wife’s abandoned me for a week’s gallivanting in That London. She’s staying with VonSmallHaussen, and according to the detailed & extensive itinery I’ve been left (she claims it’s so I’ll know where she is in case of emergencies. I think it’s to rub in what a great time she’ll be having):

  • They’re both seeing La Cage Aux Folles tomorrow
  • Wednesday - the Royal Academy & the V&A Museum
  • Thursday - visiting chums
  • etc, etc.

So I’m home alone, with Daughter & Huge Dalmatian. And unlike the London-obsessed media would have you believe, it’s all slushy outside, so we can’t even make a snowman. Bah!

And I don’t even think it’s ideal weather to ride a bike - not because of the snow, but because of the howling gale that’s blowing from across the North Sea. I swear if you listen carefully you can hear people speaking Dutch in the wind. Though while I was out running today, I DID see one person on a bike.

Let’s have some fun with a quiz on this subject. Was he:

  1. A Roadie, in full-on winter training mode. Lycra tights, booties, mittens, and his ‘winter training’ bike that has mudguards (fenders)?
  2. Some old bloke, riding what the people over at Copenhagenize & Amsterdamize would call a ‘normal’ bike - complete with a re-purposed plastic crate screwed to the rear rack?
  3. A roughy-toughy mountain biker, relishing the opportunity to use those knobbly tyres at last?
  4. A courier on a stripped down fixie, wearing the obligatory old jeans, Berghaus jacket and fingerless gloves, going at it like there’s no tomorrow, ‘cos “we deliver in all wethers”?

Leave your answer below!

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5 Responses to “ Snowy, Snowy Weather Competition ”

  1. Von SmallHaussen on February 2, 2009 at 4:55 pm

    I’ve already spoken to you so would be unfair for me to “guess” the answer.

    Thanks for letting me know our plans for Weds, I had no idea - but not in a secret way just in a I’ve left it to your wife to decide way - they sound fun.

    Have a good week being a responsible adult and all that!!!!

  2. Karl On Sea on February 2, 2009 at 4:59 pm

    Being a responsible adult is easy. Or at least it was while I was skiing this year. Nothing to it in fact. Nope, with two cooks, and four nannies about the place, it’s a complete doddle.

    Right now Daughter is upstairs playing with matches . . .

  3. David Hembrow on February 2, 2009 at 6:59 pm

    I vote for “some old bloke”, on the grounds that people who think they are extreme rad dudes are usually wusses in reality.

  4. town mouse on February 3, 2009 at 10:27 am

    I’d vote for the old bloke too. Apart from anything else, the ‘normal’ bike would probably be the only one that doesn’t blow sideways in the wind.

    I did get out yesterday - it was sunny and snowing at the same time - and kept finding myself either in the hedge or half way across the road.

  5. Karl On Sea on February 4, 2009 at 10:24 pm

    Well done to David & the Town Mouse.

    Maybe I should make my competitions just a little more challenging!