Woo-Hoo!!

Howdy Boys & Girls,

Very exciting news, I am now a blogger on 2 websites! I have written a piece for www.gigwise.com and they have put it on their site. Now as Jed will know I was rushed and I kinda wanted to expand more but they really liked it so who cares!!

Have a look and tell me what you think. - "It's Time To Stop MP3 Players Killing Off Albums"

New blog soon,

xx

Pantone have confirmed that it is indeed 'Shocking Pink'

Yes, I have been rubbish with this blog. I apologise profusely for that and will hope to make it up to you all somehow… And on that note, we cue the music:

First things first, I have bought a bike..

To set the scene, I haven’t owned a bike since I was 13ish and never ridden really ridden in the road. Regardless of this, I decided that a BMX would be perfect for me to save money on having to use the bus/tube and good exercise for my marathon training (and secretly I thought that if I got one I would be doing this in no time…..But turns out I think it would be more like this)

I popped down to Re-cycle in Elephant & Castle (I recommend the shop but not the area) and bought myself a shocking pink BMX. As you can see from the pic above 'Rosita'* is quite a looker, and although I friend of mine did point out that it looks like I have stolen a little girls birthday present, it has already got me out of some scrapes.

Having done a couple of short rides down to the shops and through the park to meet a friends, I was fairly confident with my ‘mad skills’ and yesterday decided to go for a longer ride to another part of town.

Mistake.

Riding on main roads with no cycle lane on a bike that could fit inside a Christmas cracker is utterly terrifying. I now know why BMXrs wear those full-face masks: to hide the look of sheer mind-numbing terror that is on their face (Kinda like this fat kid)

Due to this terror, I began to snake on and off the pavement. I was all going swimmingly until I turned a corner and ran into a Community Support Officer. On the pavement.

He called me to one side, made me take off my sunglasses and the conversation genuinely went like this:

CSO: “ Why are you riding on the pavement?”

RLP: “Because I don’t want to get hit by a car, Officer.”

C: “Do you know it is illegal to cycle on the pavements in The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea?”

R: ”No Sir, I did not.” (I honestly didn’t know it was illegal)

C: “Is this your bike?”

R: ”Yup.”

C: “Do you actually own this bike?”

R: “Yes Sir.”

C: “Why do you own a pink bike?”

R: “I think you'll find it is ‘shocking’ pink..”

C: “Why do you own a pink bike.”

R: “Because it’s cool.”

C: “It’s not cool. Girls have pink bikes”

R: “True, but men have ‘shocking’ pink bikes..”

This back and forth continued as we discussed the connotations of having a bike with such a hue until he let me off the £30 fine due to the fact that he - and I quote - "Felt sorry for me and my pink bike."

Me + Rosita* = An unstoppable force…


xx



* You must put your finest Hispanic accent whilst saying it.


P.S To tide you over -

• Webcam Window Fall
• Sporcle - Good pocrastination fodder. Especially like Mambo N0.5 (Got all of them, oh yeah), Mr Carlins 7 Dirty words (All 7) & Death Words (only 23)