Nico
Ex-London logistics operations whizz, now learning to pilot buses around the Home Counties.
Bucks/Oxon
- Estate roads of South Oxhey currently looking for all the world like a loyalist area of Belfast with all the union flags hanging off streetlamps.
- Six weeks since last in Central London. Haven't begun to miss it all yet. Some day?
- Really enjoyed the 25 minutes this morning when I wasn't hot.
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- Sitting in an air conditioned coffee shop watching all life on Broad Street pass by. Coming to the end of the first really hot spell I've experienced on SSRI medication (now 100mg Sertraline! Stepping up!). Takeaway: Whatever fluids I've been bringing out and about with me, double that amount.
- Current weather in central Reading: hot, but overcast with a few spots of rain. The air is thick. No sun since lunchtime. Feels like a storm might develop, though forecast/radar suggests otherwise.
- Three weeks of training ✔️ All theory and CPC exams passed. PCV practical next week. All being well, I'll be signed off back to High Wycombe by the end of the week. After two weeks of living on my nerves, everything started to 'click'. Absolutely loving it now. Oxford in the summer is a delight.
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- New whip
- Now an ex-employee of the courier industry, ending a 15 year run of involvement. Surprisingly emotional (and very noisy) leaving drinks, but nursing a relatively gentle hangover (Pinot Noir, thanks Bill).
- For the first time in my life I booked a hotel to stay in town rather than schlep it out on the last Met. Surreal waking up and stepping out into an empty Fleet St. 4x4 Panda got an overnight stay in zone 1. Then breakfast at Andrews, the cafe that launched a thousand working days at our WC1 office.
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- Met shenanigans have driven me to Hayes and into the arms of the Elizabeth Line, which is working as intended. Very pleasant journey when it all works (it doesn't always work).
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- REPLICATE the experience of taking ketamine in a work environment by wearing out a brand new glasses prescription on a weekday.
- Final commute form for my last month of working in London: drive to Little Chalfont, Brompton ¾ mile from bountiful parking to station, train to.. depending on which train turns up really, unfold Brompton at other end and ride last 1-2 miles. Nice to be back in the saddle!
- Morning peak shoulder train used to pick up at least 3-4 food delivery cyclists from Wembley/Harrow area, all seem to have been banished by the ban. None going home either. Wonder if they ride in now or if the Euston line has picked them up.
- Gloriously outdated counties of Britain jigsaw map at the big Oxfam in Cowley.
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- Reposted by NicoI have tariffed the penguins that are on Heard Island and which you were probably assuming did not export goods forgive me they were taking advantage of us so cunning and so cold
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- Sad to hear that unbound has gone into administration. They still have my £20 from the crowdfund for that photo book hrtbps was going to launch before he was outed as a massive groomer. Ah, twitter history!
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- 16 days with the Panda 4x4 twinair. Found the 'eco' button, now getting a more respectable mid-40s mpg on the run from Amersham to South London while still being peppy enough for town. Cuts through the eldest's SUV-littered nursery run chaos with ease.
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- 48 hours with the Panda 4x4 twinair. 0.9l engine thrum is fantastic fun and pulls the car with alarming vigour. Flies off the lights. 35mpg seems to be the inevitable compromise. Family loves it. Drives in London fine. Now need somewhere to test it's off road abilities!
- Parenting two tinies when you both have full blown off-work level illnesses. I haven't left my dressing gown yet today.
- The mountain goat is mine!!
- This Wandsworth Council rebrand is.. intense.
- Memories of, er, Belfast in the Old Kent Road BHF this afternoon.
- Six weeks or so in on Sertraline and it is now making a meaningful difference. Since childhood I've never known a time without anxiety and depression. I learned long ago to live with it. I feel like I've been gifted 30% extra brain now. Some physical symptoms (eg. think gut) have also just.. gone!
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