26 september 2010, on my bike

I spoke at a cycling summit earlier this week. Not my best ever gig, but saved by the passion of the message I found coming through as I skipped over the plethora of statistics about how cycling can save the world to my own very real enthusiasm. Yesterday, I was practicing what I preach, picking up my youngest's bike from the repair shop (I'm not very black-fingered) and the three of us going on a 10km-round trip. My other half was in budapest, as her mum rather suddenly passed away earlier in the week, though the kids didn't know yet. We made a good day of it, pausing for lunch and just generally having fun in an urban environment that I have to say was very green and cycle-friendly. We also discovered, literally a few hundred metres down the road, a great farm shop, from which I bought a few fresh things. Today, we delivered the news to the kids, and so are so are just spending a quiet day pottering around. I watched ed miliband on the andrew marr show and am bracing myself for the consequences of the israeli moratium on settlement building being lifted...