Late to bed, late to rise
16 May 2020 02:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
igenlodeI didn't get dressed until 8pm today. That's quite a record, even given these past few weeks... Unfortunately I can't re-use the same clothes for tomorrow, despite the small amount of wear I've had out of them, since the purpose of dressing in the first place was to go out for some brisk and sweaty 'exercise' -- cycling twelve miles along the main roads after nightfall. I struck off on an alternative route home which I suspect would have been thoroughly unpleasant under normal circumstances, being wide roads verging on dual carriageways, but which proved to be fast, flat and virtually empty of traffic after dark.
I got back and eventually started cooking asparagus risotto at midnight, having finally managed to get organised enough to leave around 10pm. The plastic bag I was using to shield my leather saddle from sun/rain blew away in the high winds we had a couple of days ago, and the latest replacement has no handles and is almost impossible to knot around the saddle :-(
Somebody appears to have attempted to sever the cable of my bike lock with a hacksaw, but given up on hitting the braided steel core -- either that, or the casing has cracked and failed in a suspiciously neat slice :-( Given that the core is actually visible through the casing, I can only assume they were remarkably stupid or else operating after dark -- even so, they can scarcely have imagined that the machine was secured only by a plastic loop. So presumably greedy, opportunistic and and stupid. Mainly stupid, since available outlets to sell on a stolen bicycle are pretty limited at the moment, and mine is a shabby three-speed bike with a battered wire basket done up with string that would fetch very little money second-hand.
Although anyone who is carrying around a hacksaw presumably sets out with felonious intent, so not all that opportunistic....
Current mileage reading: 1882.7 — 213 miles under lockdown (counting the twenty-four done immediately before taking that reading).
I got back and eventually started cooking asparagus risotto at midnight, having finally managed to get organised enough to leave around 10pm. The plastic bag I was using to shield my leather saddle from sun/rain blew away in the high winds we had a couple of days ago, and the latest replacement has no handles and is almost impossible to knot around the saddle :-(
Somebody appears to have attempted to sever the cable of my bike lock with a hacksaw, but given up on hitting the braided steel core -- either that, or the casing has cracked and failed in a suspiciously neat slice :-( Given that the core is actually visible through the casing, I can only assume they were remarkably stupid or else operating after dark -- even so, they can scarcely have imagined that the machine was secured only by a plastic loop. So presumably greedy, opportunistic and and stupid. Mainly stupid, since available outlets to sell on a stolen bicycle are pretty limited at the moment, and mine is a shabby three-speed bike with a battered wire basket done up with string that would fetch very little money second-hand.
Although anyone who is carrying around a hacksaw presumably sets out with felonious intent, so not all that opportunistic....
Current mileage reading: 1882.7 — 213 miles under lockdown (counting the twenty-four done immediately before taking that reading).
