Backwards cycling race

Good grief it's windy out there. Turning into the car park this morning, I almost got blown off my bike. The old machine isn't really up to the hard work and I really must see about getting a grown up bicycle. It's not the pink and yellow that I mind, it's that it appears to be made of solid iron bars and weighs about the same as a baby elephant. Which means that it's great going downhill, but it's hard to get up much speed from a standing start. I will be sad to lose it, but happy to have a bike that has more than one gear...

Knitters, are we meeting today in white_hart's absence? I'm thinking of popping over to Broad Canvas first to find something to do with my hands since I forgot my stitching again :S Anyway, I'm free and around if you guys are :)

My boss arrived while I was making my (essential) first coffee of the day, and when I mentioned to her about my cross-stitch, we ended up having a really good chat about handicrafts. She even offered to teach me to knit! I (very politely) turned her down, but now I'm thinking she may succeed where many others have failed. We'll see. But it was nice to have something to natter about that wasn't work :)

And today I am buying my shiny new lightbox so hopefully that will help stave off the gloom around here. I'm getting this one and can't wait to get it going. I might also start using my one at work in the mornings, just to wake me up and get me going - I'm a big believer in better living through chemistry, so this is just a natural extension of that!

We made it to mid-week, folks! All downhill from here...