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Trivial things that make you happy - Part 2 - The Happyning
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All day I have been looking forward to commuting home on my bike for the first time (I brought it in, in the boot of my car), its something I've wanted to start doing for some time but kept kicking the can down the road. Today is day one of the experiment to see if it can become a more regular thing.
If all goes well, it'll keep me fit (16Km each way each day), save money, get me out in fresh air a bit more and I can be a bit happier about doing a bit for the environment.
Just to follow up on this as a few people seemed to like the idea, I did the commute as planned yesterday evening. Road is rougher in spots than you'd realise from the car and there are 3 hills on the way home that you wouldn't think twice about in the car but you feel them on the bike.
It took 46 minutes to do what takes 20 minutes in the car so I'd deem that a success in terms of exercise payback for the extra time it takes if that makes sense.
One slight concern is how visible I am, my cycling jersey is red, but I think something yellow and reflective would be better, I have a red light under the saddle but I might put another out to the 'car' side just because a couple of people cut it closer than I was comfortable with.
I slept like a log last night and felt great, am a little stiff this morning but I did a few stretches and I'll be grand. All in all very pleased to have done it and will do it again
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Just to follow up on this as a few people seemed to like the idea, I did the commute as planned yesterday evening. Road is rougher in spots than you'd realise from the car and there are 3 hills on the way home that you wouldn't think twice about in the car but you feel them on the bike.
It took 46 minutes to do what takes 20 minutes in the car so I'd deem that a success in terms of exercise payback for the extra time it takes if that makes sense.
One slight concern is how visible I am, my cycling jersey is red, but I think something yellow and reflective would be better, I have a red light under the saddle but I might put another out to the 'car' side just because a couple of people cut it closer than I was comfortable with.
I slept like a log last night and felt great, am a little stiff this morning but I did a few stretches and I'll be grand. All in all very pleased to have done it and will do it again
maybe I am confused but you left your car at work so will cycle back to work?0 -
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Marquee erected.
BBQ clean.
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Just to follow up on this as a few people seemed to like the idea, I did the commute as planned yesterday evening. Road is rougher in spots than you'd realise from the car and there are 3 hills on the way home that you wouldn't think twice about in the car but you feel them on the bike.
It took 46 minutes to do what takes 20 minutes in the car so I'd deem that a success in terms of exercise payback for the extra time it takes if that makes sense.
One slight concern is how visible I am, my cycling jersey is red, but I think something yellow and reflective would be better, I have a red light under the saddle but I might put another out to the 'car' side just because a couple of people cut it closer than I was comfortable with.
I slept like a log last night and felt great, am a little stiff this morning but I did a few stretches and I'll be grand. All in all very pleased to have done it and will do it again
With regard to the rear lights on a bike, I pass dozens of cyclists on a country road every week during daylight and by far the most visible ones from a distance are those with a flashing red light.
As for the jersey the high vis yellow stands out more than any other."Very soon we are going to Mars. You wouldn't have been going to Mars if my opponent won, that I can tell you. You wouldn't even be thinking about it."
Donald Trump, March 13th 2018.
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honeybear wrote:Do you play fantasy football?
Oh yeah. I start all full of optimism and slowly slowly the struggle begins
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Ifevera wiztherewas wrote: »honeybear wrote:Do you play fantasy football?
Oh yeah. I start all full of optimism and slowly slowly the struggle begins
I take it you play honeybear?
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My mam found an old video cassette that for years we thought was lost and gone. It has footage on it of around the time when I was about eight. My granny is on it too. I remember we called into her house and she's giving out to my dad for having the camcorder on because she didn't have her teeth in
There's a small bit of an aunt of mine on it who has since passed away (it's especially nice that we have something of her because while I wasn't close to her, her daughters will be happy because they lost alot of their photos of her through no fault of their own).
I havent seen it for years and we have no video player to watch it atm so have to wait to get it transferred to DVD. I'll be cringing but I can't wait to see it again!0 -
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Meeting a cat I christened "Italian Kitty" while away in Italy for my brothers wedding, I got to play with them for a good hour until they lost interest, my mam called me "Oh look K at whats outside the window" and there was a beautiful kitty sitting down looking up at us, well I nearly jumped out the window to get to them
:pac: , I went down to them and they came running over to me purring mad and they let me rub them and they were rolling on there backs and then I found a stick and was playing with and they were mad trying to catch the stick , they were lying by a pole that had white cloth on it and then they started pawing at that and kicking it made my day!
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