Peter Clinch

Because you might be drinking hot chocolate, obvs.

An Aeropress makes good coffee, which is good. But it doesn't make espresso, which is even gooder.

At work my missus uses a capsule machine (refilling reusable pods) and I use an old Gaggia Cubika. At home there's a Gaggia bean to cup, all used in preference to the (very good) Aeropress.

The tea looks fine, but some fool's buggered it up with milk 🙄

Guess they'll be coming for the coconut industry next... 🙄

If it's a Brompton then your ride will not be super-efficient, so embrace that, slow down and ride in the shoes and clothes you work in.
You don't need a toolkit. If you get a flat fold it and take a bus or taxi and fix it later.
Carradice City Folder has a laptop sleeve.

If it's not a mixed mode journey or you're not storing the folded bike safety inside there's not much to gain using a Brom. But if it is then you're well ahead of the game.
Some folk say the handling is "twitchy"... They actually mean "responsive" 😉

Brompton bag like a Carradice City Folder takes over 20 litres, I find that's generally enough.

If the bike storage area shown makes it out of the concept shown into actual hardware that will be a *Big* improvement :-)

Their campaigning at the general election was quite carefully targeted for a two horse race - "we won't be as bad as the other lot". Smart in some ways as it was all that was needed at the time.

However, that is pretty much what they've delivered.

Carradice City Folder Brompton bag

I have a Carradice cotton duck Brompton bag for mine, fits a bit better and the pockets are a bit more usefully accessible.

One of these, recommended...

I guess a crack team of builders and recruiters could get doctors, dentists, swimming pools, shops, libraries etc. into a place with none overnight if that was midwinter night well inside the Arctic Circle and thus night lasted several weeks...

In the UK it'd be hard though!

I did "the school run" by car for 5 weeks when a move meant it was necessary before a new school was sorted out. And aside from the reasons given here, not doing it by car means... *not doing it by car*!
By car is awful. Why would anyone do that to themselves if they had a realistic choice?

I think you'll find she's been a bigot for quite some time... 😉

next up, roof collapse as "gravitational consequence"... 🙄

If you're going to have a retro bag patch then it should really have a retro-dressed cyclist, i.e., without a plastic hat.

That HS2 was widely sold on a small time saving rather than a large capacity increase (with bonus added time saving thrown in) has always been a mystery to me 🤷

The UCI have since revised the penalty for using sensibly small wheels to 200 Swiss Francs...

Stop press... Fire alarm went off yesterday so we went and stood in the sleet while the fire brigade checked it out, though it wasn't fire but a flood that had set the alarm, burst heating pipe in the roof space. So even colder now, though not so cold that all the new puddles froze.

Ho hum.

Some government that thinks fewer folk getting killed on the roads would be a worthwhile thing to spend money on, perhaps?
If you reduce road carnage to monetary value it may well end up saving a fair bit, there's an obvious insurance cost upside for a start...

It's a shame that...

Senz brollies were not in the test. Been using them for years in pretty fierce winds, the clever shape means they don't invert, or drag the user around.

Ninewells is a 50 year old hospital. Depending on where one is it has two values of heating, Too Hot or Too Cold. Medical Physics is mostly the latter, but at least I was expecting it to be cold so layered up accordingly.

Point of order: there is, but most often it's wind that makes it bad, not simply cold.

This saying fails to do the rounds when there's a hurricane warning, and for good reason. Blizzards in the "bad" category too, even with your Big Coat and boots on...

New Study Shows How Paris Pedaled Its Way to a Cycling Revolution Cycling through central Paris meant weaving between buses and scooters—a bold choice reserved for the fearless few.

“The transformation is astonishing. [Paris] has quietly—& quickly—become one of the most bike-friendly cities in the world. What started as a series of emergency “coronapistes” or pop-up bike lanes, built during the pandemic has evolved into a permanent bike network spanning hundreds of kilometres.”

A bicycle on a gravel track by a river, heading through mountainous terrain in Scotland

New Toy put to good use...

(pic shows wife's New Toy being put to good use ahead of me, on a multi-day circuit of Ben Wyvis)

I suspect it's mainly just unthinking habit. I used to park as close as possible to the entrance but then thought about it and started parking next to a trolley-park in an otherwise car-free bit of car park. An extra 50m of pushing a trolley I'd just been pushing for some time not actually a Biggie.

Mostly good, but we need to stop with wording that implies a helmet will surely be worn and is surely a significant safety plus. Helmet use is down to choice and context, the safety effects are contentious, and pushing them "dangerises" cycling and makes it more of a faff.

Nobody visits a place and thinks, "this is okay but it would be nicer with more cars".
But go home to the place they spend most of their time and they don't apply the same thinking, as if it's okay to live in a polluted traffic sewer and it's only other places that get to be nice 🤔🤷

Long ago I was at an IT event and one of the speakers finished up with a key takeaway: "networking is far more complicated than you think it is".

Someone called out, "but I think it's really complicated!", reply was, "nevertheless, it's far more complicated than you think it is"...

So have a partner that already knows because they want the same things...

Works for me! (and her)