I haven’t taken the tube to work for 2 weeks!!! I am now officially… a biker!!! Although you get less ‘!!!’ for an e-bike because there’s no real kind’a effort involved. But we can still enjoy the same levels of smugness as the boys in Lycra. (And gels in Lycra, who are much nicer to follow.) Because that comes from overtaking a row of 120 cars stuck in gridlock and taking the trouble to slow down next to every one to smile and give a ‘thumbs up’ to the seething drivers. The smugness going up three levels with drivers of… petrol!!, and diesel!!!! cars. Going through red lights generally endears you to everyone; drivers, pedestrians and, obviously, police. But when you arrive at the lights and there’s four-way pedestrian crossing flashing away, then cyclists are at complete liberty, legally and morally, to ‘become a pedestrian’, for tax purposes, and crossing purposes. Which further entitles us to intimidate the shit out of ‘other’ pedestrians, the ones, kind’a walking, if they get in the way.

However, all this biking into town is only because our nation is devoid of rainfall. If its gonna rain, I ain’t gettin’ on me bike. That’s the rule. Yet every day, there’s no rain forecast, none coming, none arriving. Which is a bit weird but shall be enjoyed while its (not) here. Because the cycle lanes have become the last, lawless wild-west wilderness. Enjoy it while you can.

Donald Trump has saved the world. Again. By his accounting, should the war end in Gaza, it will be the 8th war ‘he has stopped’. By anyone else’s counting, it might be the third. But give the man credit; he’s trying and at least succeeding in getting the 2 sides to talk. To a degree. But ‘The Big Beautiful Plan’, as its known, to instal the ‘Board of Peace’, (a beautiful name… really beautiful), has been given to Hamas, (not beautiful at all), with four beautiful days to agree. If they don’t agree, Netanyahu then has carte blanche to complete the destruction of Hamas, totally, whatever the cost. Which is a sizeable deterrent. Although if they agree to the terms, they get Tony Blair moving into a tent in Khan Yunis to act as de facto Emperor. I think I might go for the bombing.

Happy Wednesday

A xxxx