wheresrhys

The past few days have been fairly interesting:

• I went to the dentist, to find that I have a leaky filling (and therefore decay I cannot be blamed for). The dentists also prohibit the chewing of paan in the surgery, or even just prior to coming to the dentist. I didn’t know what paan is, and even now I do know what it is I don’t see why it should be expressly prohibited.
• I crashed my bike again. In exactly the same place as last time. The main difference this time is that it’s the bike that’s now broken which I think I prefer to the months of shoulder pain caused by the last incident. His front wheel buckled and, to the naked eye, my bike was unscathed, but he was very gracious about it and simply hoiked his bike up on its hind wheel and departed from the towpath counting his blessings that both our bodies were in one piece. I felt a bit bad – didn’t know if we should exchange contact details. Should you, when there’s no insurance claims involved? Probably, but I took too long pondering it to act on the gut feeling that maybe I should offer to pay half. Anyway, that guilt has now lifted as my forks have both buckled by roughly the same amount, which means my front wheel clips my toes when making a sharp turn.
• I am involved in a mystery. I found this photo taped to the pavement in Old Street last night. It’s a reproduction of an old photo (from the sixties or seventies I guess) on which the words “To Donna, Love Bob” have been scrawled. On the back is the web address todonnalovebob.org, and entering the code on the back gives you an address to send a postcard to requesting further information. Very odd. Stay posted for updates.

If you’re reading this on the date it’s posted then you’re weird. Really weird, as this site isn’t live yet. I’m just writing it as a test that I’ve installed WordPress ok. I do have three notable events to tell, as it happens, though, so may as well tell them:

1. I have a new job. 2 months working for fantasyleague. Bit of a turn up for the books as the plan was to doss around for a month, try and temp for a bit, and then head back to Amsterdam… but here I am with a (allbeit temporary) full-time job. How the apes did that happen?It turns out that 2 months is pretty much the minimum contract length for web developer contracting; my first lesson learned.But still, I will get paid the equivalent (pro rata) of £5k extra a year for my time, so can’t complain.

   I start on Monday.

2. My legs may look fairly normal. A little on the spindly side perhaps, but there is very little to suggest the tremendous trouble I usually have in sourcing appropriate trousers. But today I found not one, not two, but three pairs!
3. Proof at last that it is cheaper to buy a bike, a can of orange spraypaint and a bike lock than to run the risk of fly-posting fines. At least, that what House of Frazer seem to think: