A local morning shower or two and early fog patches, otherwise fine. A partly cloudy afternoon with light wind tending southerly.
Precis: Becoming fine.
Precis: Becoming fine.
City: Min 6 Max 16
Part of participating in the challenge is to co-opt people in to becoming car free. My work mates have agreed to a car free day. In order to encourage and inspire them I thought I would provide some car free food. The challenge was bringing in a cake in one piece, without a car. Trying to bring it in on the bike all I could imagine was disaster. Crumbling and mashed cake as I arrive at work, which would be the same way that I would feel after spending the night cooking the cake and carefully melting the chocolate over it instead of "ordinary" icing. Anyway today was a walking day, the perfect day to bring a cake to work. So with my workmate Lois acting as body, sorry cake guard and me carrying the cake, we walked in to the city with cake carefully packaged. I felt like I should have had the package hand cuffed to me! Anyway the cake made it in to work in one piece.
When I made the cake I planned carefully. What would inspire people to participate? Clearly the answer was chocolate! But what shape? As you can see I think most influential shape to choose car free (read a bike of some sort) transport was clearly a wheel shape. I hope people don't try to choose a donut for transport!
The walk in was relatively smooth, no bumps that were not absorbed by the shock absorbers in my legs! Anyway, lots of my workmates sampled the cake and said it was great. In return I have asked my work mates to write about there experience of being car free and I will endeavor to publish it here. My next step is to co-opt some more people and see if I can achieve greater participation. I have always thought the idea of six degrees of separation is really interesting. Perhaps this could be a good test of it. How many people could participate in this idea if I ask the people that I know to have a go and then ask someone else to have a go. I will see what happens tomorrow at work, how many will participate? We are also going to wear something green since it is the week of world environment day.
Part of participating in the challenge is to co-opt people in to becoming car free. My work mates have agreed to a car free day. In order to encourage and inspire them I thought I would provide some car free food. The challenge was bringing in a cake in one piece, without a car. Trying to bring it in on the bike all I could imagine was disaster. Crumbling and mashed cake as I arrive at work, which would be the same way that I would feel after spending the night cooking the cake and carefully melting the chocolate over it instead of "ordinary" icing. Anyway today was a walking day, the perfect day to bring a cake to work. So with my workmate Lois acting as body, sorry cake guard and me carrying the cake, we walked in to the city with cake carefully packaged. I felt like I should have had the package hand cuffed to me! Anyway the cake made it in to work in one piece.
When I made the cake I planned carefully. What would inspire people to participate? Clearly the answer was chocolate! But what shape? As you can see I think most influential shape to choose car free (read a bike of some sort) transport was clearly a wheel shape. I hope people don't try to choose a donut for transport!The walk in was relatively smooth, no bumps that were not absorbed by the shock absorbers in my legs! Anyway, lots of my workmates sampled the cake and said it was great. In return I have asked my work mates to write about there experience of being car free and I will endeavor to publish it here. My next step is to co-opt some more people and see if I can achieve greater participation. I have always thought the idea of six degrees of separation is really interesting. Perhaps this could be a good test of it. How many people could participate in this idea if I ask the people that I know to have a go and then ask someone else to have a go. I will see what happens tomorrow at work, how many will participate? We are also going to wear something green since it is the week of world environment day.
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