I got up early on Saturday and walked around town looking for cable ties so that I could safely cycle to market (which was obviously not an option with an electronic sensor
dangling off my front fork by a single tie).
I eventually obtained some at the fourth shop I tried, although to be fair when I got them back and opened the bag they turned out to be somewhat smaller than the snapped cable ties I'd taken with me for comparison, and in fact the slots in the sensor were large enough to allow me to use *two* ties side by side for security. So I could probably have got away with buying the noticeably oversized cable ties that I rejected in the third shop I tried, for fear that they wouldn't go through the slots provided. (The first two shops simply didn't have any, although the second shop thought they did but couldn't find any on the shelf!)
So I now have a new cycle computer reasonably securely fixed -- the magnet is loose already, and of course almost impossible to tighten properly with its recessed hexagonal nut -- and just have to learn how to use it.
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My first evening primrose opened unexpectedly this evening; they didn't flower at all last year, being biennials (although I'm surprised there weren't any seedlings that had started themselves the previous year), and weren't showing any sign of growing flower stalks this year either until a couple of weeks ago. But one of the many crowded rosettes of leaves has now asserted sufficient dominance to throw up a stalk, and although I didn't think the buds were anything like mature, I looked out tonight and found one in full bloom.
(Not particularly scented, unfortunately, although you can smell it if you bend very close...)
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