A Lenten Blog, 2017

A Wet Saturday

I went cycling today, as I usually do on Saturday mornings. However, it had rained overnight, which meant that the other fellows I usually cycle with gave stayed at home. Only James drove to the café ¾ of the way around the course that we usually take our break at, and kept me company. 

Although the weather stayed mostly dry it the paths and roads I cycled on were wet enough to think about road surface, and how on earth a bicycle gets enough traction not to slip from underneath one. I pump the tubes of my road bike tyres up to 100-110 psi, so hard that there can’t be more than elongated coin’s worth of contact between tyres and surface, and yet my sense of control is good; I feel secure.

Be that as it may, most of the rest of the day was filled with the usual Saturday things - shopping and trying to bring some semblance of order to our house. 

In the evening we went to dinner with a recently widowed, long-standing friend, and four of her friends. A pleasant evening. One gets to field interesting questions at dinner parties when one is a minister!

David