Full Metal Wheelbarrow

From Failblog

I giggled and then I facepalmed...

evilpuppy recently had the great misfortune to fly with United Airlines. Their treatment of her, as recounted here at her journal utterly appalled me. They deserve to go out of business if that's how they treat their customers

Rob has now got to Waterlooville near Portsmouth, where he's again staying with a kind fellow cyclist for the night. Tomorrow he's heading over to the Isle of Wight and the plan is then for me to drive down and collect him at Lyme Regis on Thursday. He's suffering from tendonitis in his right ankle and while it's OK if he doesn't pedal too hard, he doesn't think he'll be able to cope with the hills of Devon and Cornwall to any great extent, so he's calling it a day while he's still enjoying himself.

He had another puncture in his rear tyre today, but again managed to patch it without taking the tyre off the wheel. He had a scare when he thought there was a strip hanging off the tyre, but fortunately it turned out to be one of the reflective strips from the sidewall peeling off :-)

I had an unexpected trike test ride today, which is always good, but tends to disrupt  the schedule a bit. I'd already been down to the PosT Office with a tyre parcel, and spent the rest of the day pottering around tidying up.