woop de doo

Thanks to the delightful (if incompetent) people at AXA insurance, I have a new bike and another is on the way. It's an odd little puppy but I like it. It's singlespeed and has 29 inch wheels. This makes me both an outcast and a gayer, and I've never been happier about it.If neither of those means much to you, then it's probable you're not a mountain biker. However, it is purple which is something everyone can enjoy

Shhhh

I wasn't planning on posting anything until I found this. Just keep it under your hat, ok? We don't want every tom, dick and harry going here, do we?

Freedom!

Ahhh, it's good to be back after my enforced absence. In this past month I've been busy. "How busy?" I hear you cry. Very busy.

Ok then. I've moved house. This was a major undertaking and it's quite odd to pack everything you own into boxes. You don't realise how much stuff you accumulate until you have to look at it, piece by piece and ask whether you really need to keep it. To that end I am sorry to the following ex-personal possessions:

1 perfectly intact dart board
1 set of inline hockey armour
1 fully useable bike (cheap variety)

also countless other items which I won't even remember until I think "I've got one of those" and spend a day of my life searching for until I realise it got chucked out. My moving house is why I haven't updated this blog lately. The internet company have taken until now to update our line or something.

I've also been busy getting robbed. I returned home one Wednesday to see the garage door open. Uh-oh. The next door neighbour rushes towards me before I can even get out of my car. "I think you've been robbed!" he exclaims, obviously pleased with himself for being so on-the-ball. "My wife and I saw them at about 10.30. A couple of youths in hoodies. They went away then. We went out at 4 and, when we came back at 5, it was like that!" he positively beams, pointing at the mouth of my obviously burgled garage. "Did you call the police?" is my obvious reply? "Oh no, we thought we'd let you do that". I bit my lip to stop me shouting in his face "NEXT TIME YOU SEE AN OBVIOUS CRIME, CALL THE F***ING POLICE!".
My £4500 of bikes were stolen as I hadn't been able to lock them to an immovable object (we'd been in the house 2 weeks). Insurance may well pay up but they're dragging their feet and it's been about 3 weeks and still no money or bikes.

RIP Voodoo Sobo, On-one Inbred and Kona Kikapu

So, if you see a hooded youth, possibly in a badger cap, riding on one of my three bikes, God won't mind if you stab him in the eye with a knitting needle. I had a word with him.

Welcome to the neighbourhood.