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🎶I love to ride my bicycle! I love to ride my bike.🎶 Usually a late adopter of new things. Likes cake. Speaks fluent sarcasm.

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highpoh.bsky.social @highpoh.bsky.social · 13m

That's an oddly specific amount of apology.

highpoh.bsky.social @highpoh.bsky.social · 22m

What a spectacular tail you have Gizmo dear. It's like a whole 'nother cat!

highpoh.bsky.social @highpoh.bsky.social · 39m

Ah yes, the Breton O'Connors, non?

highpoh.bsky.social @highpoh.bsky.social · 2h

The Embankment Cycle lane hits differently in the dark, but London is just a big show off whether in the light or darkness.

highpoh.bsky.social @highpoh.bsky.social · 7h

Glorious Daphne purrs!

highpoh.bsky.social @highpoh.bsky.social · 7h

I have failed as I do not have a cat to serve. I shall worship Daphne instead.

Hail Wondrous Daphne with her Beautiful, Bountiful Floor and Pinkest of Noses!

highpoh.bsky.social @highpoh.bsky.social · 1d

I was wondering if my maths were wrong. Very strange.

highpoh.bsky.social @highpoh.bsky.social · 1d

He's absurdly floofy! So squishable!

highpoh.bsky.social @highpoh.bsky.social · 1d

We've all got scars on our hands from the knives, haven't we? Hee hee.

highpoh.bsky.social @highpoh.bsky.social · 1d

Good. We worked hard on our wee songs and stuff when I was little. And homemade costumes and turnip lanterns.

highpoh.bsky.social @highpoh.bsky.social · 1d

The maths seem a bit squiffy for Wednesday. V odd.

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highpoh.bsky.social @highpoh.bsky.social · 1d

The maths seem a bit squiffy so I wonder if the counter had a hissy fit on Wednesday!

highpoh.bsky.social @highpoh.bsky.social · 1d

And dooking for apples etc.

highpoh.bsky.social @highpoh.bsky.social · 1d

Guising was fun. But you had to have your "party piece" ready. Sing a song, recite a poem, tell some jokes or a short story. None of this "demanding sweeties with menaces" like today.

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highpoh.bsky.social @highpoh.bsky.social · 1d

Please may I tickle that floofy tummy petit Hercule?

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highpoh.bsky.social @highpoh.bsky.social · 1d

Yep. To be completely fair, by the end of the commute it was probably about 70/30 with/without lights. And there were some fancy pants road bikes lit up like Christmas trees.

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highpoh.bsky.social @highpoh.bsky.social · 1d

I sispect they would "ruin the aero"....

highpoh.bsky.social @highpoh.bsky.social · 1d

A fair few tonight did not even have the fixings for them. So perhaps not even a case of "I forgot".

highpoh.bsky.social @highpoh.bsky.social · 1d

Can afford a £10k road bike. Cannot afford lights. Or do lights "ruin tbe aero"? Eejits.

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highpoh.bsky.social @highpoh.bsky.social · 1d

Got passes by at least 15 men on seriously fancy road bikes this evening. Not a light to be seen.

Ironically, a decent number of the delivery riders now have them (on their illegally modded "bikes")....

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highpoh.bsky.social @highpoh.bsky.social · 1d

A gentle reminder to my.fellow cyclists that lights are a legal requirement during the hours of darkness, even if you're "just riding in the cycle lanes". White on the front, red on the rear. And if you join @londoncycling.bsky.social you can get free lights!

highpoh.bsky.social @highpoh.bsky.social · 1d

I even participated in #Shortswatch today. Shorts. On 30th October. Knees were a tad chilly but not too bad this morning.

Anyhoo, here are the counts for today, a mildish, dry Thursday during half term.... (approx 635pm) @cs3cs6count.bsky.social

Embankment counter showing 10,187 cyclists today.

Embankment counter showing 383,780 cyclists this "year" (since 23.9)

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highpoh.bsky.social @highpoh.bsky.social · 1d

There are still a LOT of cyclists who do not have any kind of lights on their bikes....

highpoh.bsky.social @highpoh.bsky.social · 1d

It is! Hurrah!

highpoh.bsky.social @highpoh.bsky.social · 2d

"The service in this place is rubbish!"

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