Showers during the morning, most frequent in eastern suburbs. A few showers during the afternoon and evening. Mostly cloudy with moderate to fresh southwesterly wind.
Precis: Showers, mainly in the east.
City: Min 8 Max 14
5 am start. Dark cold has been raining during the night. The good thing about riding in the rain on the trike is that you know you won't fall over.
The strange thing about riding the trike in the cold, and it is that biting winter cold, your hands don't really get that cold, but your bum does! Not everything is perfect about riding recumbent. I also note a bit of numbness in the toes of my right foot, sometimes the position of your feet means that the blood can get pushed out of your feet. This doesn't happen on an upright because of the influence of gravity.
I am still marvelling with welding on my trike and the fact that it doesn't make any noise and everything seems to run very smoothly.
Em has a totally different car free day with Tom...She walked to the local shops, with the pram and bought fruit, vegetables and bread for the week. Then she walked 5 km to and 5 km back from some shops looking for bedding. She did all this in the rain, and she sings the praises of his pram, as great car free transport for him. Car free and human powered!
Have been encouraging my work mates to take a test ride and hopefully they will tomorrow!
Have got a few stories from my workmates about what happened on their car free day...
Julie's story - On the tram trip in, it is packed with people, they
should put more trams on really, but in order to mange the situation I
play the game, "spot the person who is not going to work in the city".
The game involves a couple of parts, first I have to work out who isn't
going to work, usually the person who is not in a suit! Second, I have
to squeeze my way through the crowd to get as close as possible to them.
Finally, as soon as they get off the tram (before the city) I get to
jump into their seat, and I have won the game!
TSI (Tram Squash Indicator) is 6 this morning - squashy but not to the
max. of 10 which it is on most mornings. So I get the seat (yippee) but
in retrospect think I would have been better standing. I have to climb
over a strange male to wedge myself in next to the window and to squeeze
myself down next to him. Oh my god - why does he not move over? I can
feel my thighs sliding down his. Why is he sitting with his legs wide
open? We sit thighs pressed together all the way into the city. I look
at him staring but say nothing. It is too awkward. I am trapped again on
public transport.
Ed - Sounds like Julie is an advocate for biking it!
Ros' story - on my train trip home there was a saxophonist playing jazz
on the train.
Ed- The benefits of car free - wouldn't have happened in a car!
Stella's story - I was cold at the bus stop and then my train ran late
despite me trying to get here early. I was tempted to walk home in the
evening they were so late, but it was too dark. A reunion of sorts was
had when I travelled on the bus I used to travel on 3 years ago...Met
the same people travelling on it...
Ed- Sounds like a bike would have been a good option.
Marc - Walked to train station, nothing happened (but I didn't drive the
car). Train trip was same old same old.
Ed - Sounds like a bike would have been good variety.
Simone's story car free today (she forgot on the day) - got up it was
cold, thought it was snowing, got my met card at the seven eleven ( I
walked there). Train trip was same old same old.
Ed - Well it was cold, wonder how it would have felt on a bike!? Maybe it
would have been invigorating and a little less same old same old!
One of my sisters had a car free day today also...
When life is simple – sleep and work basically – it’s easy to have a car free day. I set off for my walk to the station this morning later than usual and forgot the new hat I bought on the weekend at Daylesford Market. It wasn’t too cold but the promise of winter is in the air. Different people on the streets, shoppers on the way home from market rather than on the way there, and seats on the train! And time to read on the train – I could cope with this every day. By the time I left work it was almost dark, colder than the morning but not raining. A brisk walk home, the car still in the driveway and a promise to myself not to forget my hat tomorrow!
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