frosty bikes

The weather has steadily been getting warmer and on a sunny sunday a few weeks ago, after a morning indulging my latest addiction at the indoor climbing centre, we packed some of aldi's finest grapes and cheese, made some baps and headed to wollaton park for a picnic. it's really heartening to see the sun out and the flowers pushing out, even though it's clearly not a good thing in terms of the global issue with warming, and so i made the most of the late afternoon shadows as we pretended we weren't all frozen to the core. daffodils!


Last weekend brought a similar affair weather-wise, when i popped home to collect my new toy - the perfect mountainbike frame! i could wax on about it in great detail but instead, here's a photo proving that a) konas grow on trees and b) it's always sunny in our garden. mine's the red frame at the top.


I like how oxford circus often has something hanging over it. a few months back it was some ominous looking spheres somewhat reminiscent of the killer balloon in "the prisoner", this month it's fairy-light lanterns for chinese new year. happy year of the rat!


The journeys gave me lots of time to write a few chapters of my book - indeed, i'm writing a book! something i decided in the new year would be an interesting project to follow when i came across a horoscope book and was reminded of someone who won the lottery and decided to see if believing every advert for a year and buying whatever they told him to would make him happier. he ended the year owning a multitude of cars and getting fat, but it was ok because he also had many life insurance policies. so i've decided that any desisions involving any sort of date (calendar or otherwise) won't be made until THE BOOK has been consulted. so far it has factored in decisions regarding social dates, dates for tests and will feature heaviliy in my next experiment, winning the lottery. all of this why? because i believe in the moon and the stars? not quite. i guess it's just something to do...


And just as suddenly as the flowers had started pushing out, winter returned! after a few nights in the minuses i walked in today not only to the sound of the factory near campus playing "The A-Team theme tune on what sounds like an ice-cream truck, but to gorgeously frosted cobwebs. where do all the spiders go?