EtA, in the traditional manner

[desperance]

So I posted that last, and thought phooey. And wheeled the bike out to the front and roded it, all the way to the bottom of the street and round to the next and up to the top. And then back down and around, 'cos I didn't fancy the main road at the top, with all that traffic and me a little wobbly and poor on etiquette and rights of way and so forth. And I didn't - quite - fall off even at the start, before I had faith enough to go fast enough not to do that; and I remembered to ride on the wrong other sides of the road, both ways; and there was a car and everything*, and neither of us came close to hitting each other; and really it's just like being thirteen again and getting my first and last sensible bike. Though this is probably the only one I ever had that was the right size for me.


*Yes, just the one. Now I am suddenly grateful to be living in a very quiet suburb.