Slowlycatchymonkey

I’m very familiar with the Victorian attitudes mainly aimed at mothers failing in their duties to walk their kids to school, completely brushing over the bit that most work and just getting everyone out the door in the morning fed, dressed, with the right kit to school early enough to make it to work on time is like a mini marathon. They also ignore that the start times of different schools are all very similar and most people have more than one kid and can’t physically be in two different places within 15 minutes without a damn car. So yer I think your bang on in that. I too have experienced parking outside the school that is so selfish you start to think maybe a licence to breed isn’t such a bad idea after all Its just the measures are always punitive. There’s never much thought about how to make it easy to drop your kids at school or actually reduce traffic, not by the school at least. The school down the road decided they’d stop the free school bus to save pennies showing a walking route through dark, unlit, unpaved lanes through fields that apparently is fine for children over 7 years old to walk to school on unsupervised. Seriously in this day and age who’d want their little girl to walk alone down dark alleys? Exactly the sort of places you’re told to avoid going alone. So now everyone is back in their cars When I suggested they introduced flexible drop off in the form of a supervised area where you can drop of a bit earlier (so everyone wasn’t trying to drop of in the same 10 minutes) that was also ignored. The primary/junior school in the other direction however painted ‘walking bus’ lines on the road (there’s no pavement there) and there a drop of point away from the school where they stick a hi viz on them and walk them the last 200 (ish) metres. That works really well.

Doesn’t that just push the problem further down the road or is there something in place for people to get their kids to school?

Yep that’s crossed my mind. The sooner the better. But always good to have a back up plan. I spend the majority of the year riding in the cold and wet so it’s all manageable… with the right gear. I wouldn’t take the scenic route in miserable weather, it’d be get to the sun by the fastest route type of thing!

If I can get a decent price ticket it’ll be Santander/Bilbao. But they relaxed the Covid rules and bookings immediately shot up by 200% Everything is petty booked up so it might be a much longer route via the chunnel or a case of waiting until after half term.

Probably about as much use in a helmet

Yep I spied something on auto trader I think he might like a lot but I don't want to say anything about it yet until Ive seen it in the flesh!

Ooh yes that’d be way cool, a motorbike that belongs in a 5 year olds dress up box right next to his spidey costume.

Definitely the Himalayan.

Oh sweetheart then we’d all know exactlywhere to find you

Please do. If only to eliminate Lyme disease from the equation.

Update- A new pain has developed, being bikeless in the sun surrounded by empty roads and tarmac is very painful. It started last week and I can stand it no more. I’m going home to get a bike then I can take my sweet time dithering and researching what bike I’m going to get. Flight booked for Thursday. So I’ll either be a bit absent from here or on here all the time avoiding sorting stuff, always hard to predict when procrastination will strike

Thanks I’ll put it on the list

Brilliant stuff. I love reading these with the generous amount of photos and well cut vids, they always make me smile. Thankyou.

@Tango I like it. Looks pricey!

It’s so horrible I invite you to join me in lala land- I choose to believe the elderly house owner died and by the time they found him/her the dogs had expired.

Love it, you take cracking photos. This one though I have to say reminds reminds me of decomposing broccolli

They started on boosters where Im from two weeks ago and not specific to your previous jab. My friend and her sister (late 60's) have had theirs already, no real underlying health problems, both Oxford Astrazenica last time World situation aside its a good thing to get on with the boosters before winter sets in and cases increase methinks.

I think is going to sound mental but I’m going to say it anyway. I look at your pics and think I’d quite like to eat them with a spoon

Did you manage to Scoot all the way to Scotland?

Morning. Happy Sunday all. Wotcha having for Sunday lunch today?

@bonio looks like it’s heating up, Van-Tam’s not happy! “England’s deputy chief medical officer asked ministers to withhold all UK clinical trial data from the EU if European countries continued to deny entry to British vaccine trial volunteers, the Observer can reveal. Jonathan Van-Tam made the extraordinary proposal after months of uncertainty for the 19,000 volunteers who are effectively unable to travel to Europe to see family, work or go on holiday because they took part in trials of Novavax and Valneva.” https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/sep/18/ministers-told-bar-eu-uk-trial-data-vaccines-row-england-deputy-chief-medical-guinea-pigs?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Very other worldly

Well the commercial benefit to them is not exactly hidden

I said a similar thing to Mr Slowly! The advert is promising all the amazing improvements it’s promised with each iteration. It looks good but I’ll wait for the reviews, sometimes these things do leap forward but often it’s small incremental steps.