Always Leaf Them Laughing

This week was very quiet as well as being quite cold and in the later part of the week a north wind blew in a storm front which made going out quite unpleasant. I did manage to undertake some maintenance on the bikes including re-wrapping the handlebars on Helen's road bike which has been bugging me for a while and sorting out a few issues with a friend's bike. I even got some fuses for the step up transformer which meant I could charge up the serious bike lights.

Cycling home along the bike path in the dark has been quite fun for me this week as the leaves on the path are slippery with the rain and with leaves either side of the path it is all to easy to ride off the path onto the muddy grass which you thought was part of the path. To make matters worse I have to contend with the lights of the oncoming cars shining in my eyes as the road is to the right of the bike path causing me to ride very slowly and sometimes even having to stop to avoid riding straight into a tree. Helen has also been having trouble with the leaves so it's not just me. The good news though is that this years colours for running or walking in the dark are the same as last year's; I'm not sure whether it is black or dark blue because I normally only see them fleetingly, but I'll be sure to ask when I hit somebody.

Wednesday was Veterans Day which meant a day off for me and I didn't get up to much on the day but I did go out with some friends from the office for a bite to eat and a few beers on the evening before. The evening shot by so by the time I got off the Metro it was quite late and even though I did slip half-a-crown into the bus driver's hand and begged him to be the 1230 to Mount Vernon he declined and I had to catch a taxi home.

In an amazing effort we managed to go out for the second Friday in a row! We drove into DC to see the Japanese drum group Yamato which was an amazingly powerful and occasionally humorous physical performance. I can't begin to describe what the performance was like but you will find a very small taster here.

On Saturday I got stuck in to pulling together all the boarding footage for the last couple of years and posted a couple of short films to Facebook and YouTube (Considerable Relief and Surprising Adventures) and then later in the evening we watched another lacklustre performance by England, this time against Argentina.

There is still plenty of pumpkin left in the freezer!