This was my breakfast last weekend: a bacon and egg sandwich, grapefruit juice, and Eclipse. Heaven. We don't usually have bacon at breakfast, but there was some left over from a Valentine's Edition of Leek and Potato Pie the night before.We had a v. chill V. Day - I rang bells for two weddings (and earned £30), and then had dinner in. I came across the world's most unfortunate bridesmaid's dress at one of the weddings - it was a strapless number worn by a 4ft x 4ft bridesmaid and there was some overspill at the back. And not just a little. MY EYES! A perfect place to use the only Dutch phrase that our family retained from my Mom's "Learn Dutch On Tape" course in the '90s: "het is geen mooi zicht." (For the non-Dutch speakers in the room: "It is not a pretty sight.)
James and I went to see Bolt today - it was really cute and had some laugh-out-loud moments. Very Pixar, and very well put-together. We inadvertently went to the 3-D version, which was very clever and zoom-y (not a word, but you get the idea). However, both of us were ready for it NOT to be 3-D about 2/3 of the way through - the glasses were a little uncomfortable. Here they are in all their Disnificated glory.
I should start a BikeHod fund and put spare change in it. In the spring/summer/fall we like to do most of our shopping at the farm shop, about 4 miles away, and we've found that we usually have a bit more in the way of groceries than we can sensibly carry on the bikes. This would totally solve the problem.
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You'll have to be lucky to persuade Bike-Hod to sell you a trailer. Even before the Waitrose hook-up, they didn't answer emails and rarely came to the phone. I've had one on order for six months and there is still no delivery date.
G.
Oxford
I bought one about a year ago. It's great. I use it mostly for transporting my classical guitar around town to lessons and gigs, but I've also used it to move house, and I can occasionally use it to do shopping.
The only problem I have is that when transporting the guitar it tends to bounce vigorously from wheel to wheel and then capsize if you hit a pot hole or bump at speed. It's not a big problem (it scrapes up the fenders and makes a terrifying concomitant noise, but the guitar is perfectly safe), and only happens with the guitar because the guitar makes the trailer a bit top-heavy. Keeping your speed moderate and a bit of caution on rough road surfaces is the solution.
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