So having charged the battery overnight I took it out for a test ride, and ended up at my school's summer fete, where I wasted two quid on the bottle tombola (and failed to win any wine but won a small pot of face cream, which I gave back), spent a pound on the toy tombola and won a bear for elder grandnephew and a penguin for the younger one, and four quid on the books and DVD stall which got me a book and episodes 1-5 of Walking With Dinosaurs, episode 2 of Walking With Beasts, the movie of A Series of Unfortunate Events, and the final season of Battlestar Galactica. The latter was a quid, and still sealed in its original packaging! Really can't believe my luck on that one, it cheered me up immensely.
Supposed to be heading over to a friend in Twickenham in a couple of hours, but the weather's a bit naff and I'm not 100% sure I want to risk using the bike outside central London, so I'll probably end up taking the train. So it goes...
