Finally the heat has risen to that level where a trip on the tube becomes an exercise in torture. The cause isn't helped by my being on the Northern line; worse, by the time trains get to Oval getting on-board becomes a task of throwing oneself at the heaving mass in the carriage and hoping the doors close before you bounce out again. So, I've decided not to renew my tube pass this month, save some money (or at least spend it on something else) and use my bike.

One week in this is all working out very well. I've cycled to work every day and have even done all my chores today on the bike. I even used it to head down to Battersea on Tuesday for a spot of drinking. So it's all working out very well. The major challenges are fitting a clean shirt into my bag so I don't knock people unconscious after my arrival at work, surviving the messes at Elephant & Castle, Borough and near Liverpool St. Station (pedestrians seem to edit cycles from their vision) and, as I discovered today, avoiding the mass tourist coaches and their contents at weekends.

Even better, it relieves the guilt when I start scoffing Jaffa Cakes post shopping...

However, there is one other thing that must be ranted about: bendy buses. What were they thinking? "The RouteMaster is rubbish; people only want to get on and off buses at bus stops - let's replace them with 20m monstrosities that will send cyclists flying through the air should they be anywhere near one attempting to turn". One wonders why one pays council tax...

Rants aside though, one reason to gain a few more calories to use during the day: Fuller's Honey Dew.