I am loving the rain and snow, its great, here we are moaning about it when other countries are in drought, the darkness is superb as well as people get to see my lovely bright lights !
Its very cold at the moment but this means we burn additional calories, with no additional increase in effort !
Sometimes cars come quite close, arent they beautiful and shiny ? when they pull out it gives me an opportunity to feel the excellent stopping power from my Hydraulic brakes. Some local Scallywags noticed me and shouted "self-gratification artist" at me, the cheeky scamps, I think this is to do with Masturbation, I wasnt partaking at the time as it would be very difficult (possible on a recumbent I imagine though) but it was an astute observation and kind of them to think that at nearly 40 I still have the energy to still bash one out after cycling some considerable distance !
There are a lot of nice new holes in the road surface as well, just when my commute starts to get boring the council have new obstacles engineered to keep the excitement up and renew the challenge in spotting the crevices in the road.
Actually, I do love it really !
?
. Doesn't that fall foul of the working time directive?
) and cover about 3 miles along the river. A climb through Taplow to Cliveden followed by a mile or three through Burnham Beeches. 
) then skirt round Amersham with another couple of tricky climbs and into work. 
