Be Excellent To Each Other

Just failed to get a GP appointment because I didn't know what a 'routine appointment' was as opposed to an 'emergency appointment'. Why didn't they just offer me the option of 'probably not going to die or be seriously damaged today, but these symptoms are concerning and I'd like to discuss them now, rather than in two weeks when they'll probably just have disappeared as mysteriously as they arose'.

Will give it a day or so to see if it goes, then either see a pharmacist or just use the drop-in-and-wait service.

See, the last sentence sounds more like 'we are beginning to get on'. 10 years after I started cycling to work, I still haven't gone for cleats.

I wouldn't clip in when cycling to work through traffic - too much potential for disaster - but I'm fine when out for a gentle ride at weekends.

Went to the theatre yesterday to see 'Peter Pan Goes Wrong', in which an amateur theatre company tries to put on a panto traditional Christmas vignette. You could see most of the stuff (sets collapsing, poor control of flying wires, artistic differences between the cast, missed cues, general slapstick) coming from a mile off, but that didn't matter: I laughed very hard and very loudly throughout.

I started cleating last week and I can't say I like it. Went for a pedal with cleats on one side, flat on the other, because I cycle my daughter to nursery and don't want to cleat in for that. Which means I spend a lot of time trying to work out if I'm on the right side of the pedal to get the cleat in or not.

I just find it makes me constantly anxious, especially when cycling down the hellmouth of the Old Kent Road. Think I might give the chap in the bike shop another packet of biscuits to swap back to my old pedals.

it is mainly when coming to a stop, and forgetting to uncleat...

Current view.

Not so bad.

Get practicing your track stands, young man, then you're sorted.

There are all sorts of creatures about. The Child has been very excited. And MrsA

Wow

Bah.

I used to spend ages practicing track stands, back in the 70s. Pity I wasn't actually that good a racing competitor as well. Went straight from two hands to none, IIRC, but never tried one footed. Bloody show_offs.

Baa.

Black sheep.

Fell asleep in a churchyard today. Must have been more tired than I thought.

Too much Bishops Finger.

I am entering May the 4th half marathon to get this medal.

I hope you don't TIE with someone else!

I hope you complete your run in under 12 parsecs.

Sartorial disaster of a short sleeved shirt today due to temperature. Very embarrassing, but practical choice.

I might brew some beer tonight, as I missed the window for the BeexBQ, I might as well try to have some laagered for the cottage.

I find rolling sleeves to be much more acceptable than the short sleeved shirt.

You... you're not... you're not wearing a... tie, are you?

The fucks wrong with short sleeved shirts now? Work clothes such as shirts, suits ties etc are all shit and stupid anyway, you might as well be comfortable.

Exactly. Short sleeved shirts serve no purpose. If you need to look smart and it's hot, wear a shirt. If you don't need to look smart and it's hot, wear a T-shirt.

It's fucking hard to say! Short Shleeved Shirts!

If you need to look hot, wear no shirt.

I'm fine with short sleeved shirts, though I'd generally usually go with long sleeve and rolled cuffs. Never short sleeved with a tie though. That way madness lies.

Obviously as a self employed bum now, I work completely naked.

Rolled sleeves if double cuff (because never single cuff, are you at school?)and only if you are about to deliver a baby in the street or something like that.

Ties are bad things most of the time, formal wear only.

Rolled up sleeves make you look like a right sausage. Like David Cameron or somecunt.

This coming from a man wearing a short sleeved shirt...at work! What are you? A junior manager of a shoe shop?

(Of course this is coming from a person sitting in an office where it is over 40 degrees in the sun outside...and wearing a tie).

The au pair has been slacking.

Only on proper suity shirts. More casual shirts are fine to roll up.

Double cuffs are for fancy-dancy "I can afford to buy shirts made of natural fibre" types.

You're all shirt lifters.

On hot days like these you should wear compression stockings, sandals, shorts and a vest.

At least your arms are uncovered

I'm very pregnant.

Frankly I want to sit in the office naked, with a light misting of water spritzed every three seconds all over me and a fan on full blast, whilst standing there eating Ice Cream.

I have a mid June baby and a late July baby. I very much know where you are coming from and it is a hellishly uncomfortable place. Ice cubes, fans, cool baths.

Keep...going..

For reasons I don't understand, my wife just ordered Domino's pizza

*Adjusts collar*

You have my sympathies Mimi. The day I had Olly was "THE HOTTEST DAY OF THE YEAR SO FAR!!!!111!" according to the papers. I remember going outside to pace only to retreat back in pretty sharpish.

Two for Tuesday, innit?

At Yates's.

Local paper supplying pictures of bikini clad lovelies at Ilkley Lido.

Lol, official Thomas Was Alone action figures.

http://www.kerrydyer.bigcartel.com/prod ... on-figures

Brilliant.

And thunder!

You'd better knock, on wood.

A woman at work mentioned in passing that she didn't know how to turn the aircon on in her Land Rover as there was no button marked AC. I told her to look for the one with a snowflake on, and she said she thought that was only for use in winter (but didn't know what it might do.

She's had this car for 7 years.