Astrology fans will be interested to know that the word 'gullible' doesn't appear in the Oxford English Dictionary. They'll also be interested in reading the Real Cycling horoscope, specially personalised for you.
Aries (20 Mar–20 Apr) Your life will take some unexpected twists and turns today when you take the Elephant and Castle cycle by-pass.
Taurus (21 Apr–20 May) There's always room in your life for someone new. Just as well, as motorbikes are now allowed to use ASLs.
Gemini (21 May–20 Jun) Having Jupiter in Leo and Mars in Capricorn is bad enough, but that parked van in your contraflow lane is really pissing you off.
Cancer (21 Jun–21 Jul) You tend to hide your light under a bushel. That's why you won't be able to find it when you bike home tonight.
Leo (22 Jul –22 Aug) Remember, there's no such thing as bad weather, just smug people with better rainproofs than you.
Virgo (22 Aug–Sep) Your sense of humour will come into play today when you are run over by a coachload of reconstructive surgeons.
Libra (20 Sep–21 Oct) Remember there's two sides to everything, except when taxis cut you up, which is more of a Möbius strip.
Scorpio (22 Octr–21 Nov) You'll come into some money today when a Securicor van reverses into you.
Sagittarius (21 Nov–21 Dec) Your wish is granted when the youth that stole your bike actually does get admitted to A&E with a bizarre and inoperable cucumber-related mishap.
Capricorn (21 Dec–20 Jan) There's something in the air today, as you'll find when you're stuck at the lights behind that bus exhaust.
Aquarius (21 Jan–19 Feb) It'll feel like you're banging your head against a brick wall today when a Royal Mail van runs you off the road and you bang your head against a brick wall.
Pisces (19 Feb–20 Mar) You don't like change, so luckily for you Cycle Superhighways won't make any difference.
It is written in the stars that your blog will inspire stories in the Daily Mail:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1234234/Sign-times-The-cycle-path-painted-bicycle-feet-going-wrong-way.html
Cripes. I'd better be careful or I'll have Middle England onto me.
ReplyDeleteEncouraging to see they don't know how to spell 'toe the line'. Tch. I blame all that airy-fairy English teaching, you know.
As far as I recall, the Highway Code used to simply say that vehicles should pass righthand side to righthand side - but there's no obligation to stay on one side of the road. So the cyclist is doing nothing wrong.
ReplyDeleteI never use to hate the Daily Mail (well actually I never use to read it in print or online) but having read so many anti-cycling stories in it (many from following links from Freewheeler's blog) I now do.
ReplyDeleteThey couldn't even manage that story without a dig at cyclists.
You're never going to win with the Hate Mail - if we're not running old ladies down and RLJing, money is being 'wasted' on us with facilities like this. The sad thing is that a large majority of the population subscribe to the paper and never question their thinking - if you want there to be a true increase in cycling numbers, ordinary people like that need to be convinced of the benefits and joys of cycling. It's quite a task!
ReplyDeleteMy prediction is that blogs like this, and so many others, will help change hearts and minds in the future toooooooo... (best Mystic Meg impression there!)