Aikido; other stuff

[ewt]

Last night I was at Aikido again. Because rolling of any sort wore me out so quickly on Monday, this time I saved it for near the end. I still ended up spending the last 10 minutes doing ki breathing because I was just too exhausted, but that's okay.

I'm now sortof sad there is no Aikido on Monday because of the bank holiday. Being back at it both days this week has made me realise how much I enjoy it, and how good it is for my brain.

Today I will be mostly doing bicycle-related things - getting some cheap lights (in the long run I would like to get this for the front and this for the back, and also perhaps something helmet-mounted that takes standard batteries for the front - partly for safety reasons, and partly to indulge my love blinkenlichten), and a pressure gauge and perhaps a pump (I am borrowing one for the moment), filling up the tyres and going for a longer test ride. And finding my maps, damnit.

Oh, and I need to stop by ASDA and Robert Dyas to look for new shower hose and head, because our shower hose has come away from the shower head. Might look for some sort of fixative to get the grey water sorted out, too.

The neighbours want us to move 'personal belongings' away from the fence so that it can be replaced next weekend. Would that be the plants, then, or the compost heap? I'm not really sure what to do here. There's some stuff I can move, and that I will move, but plants that are in the ground are not for moving, and the compost heap is more than I can safely manage (and I've been meaning to get a proper wossname for it for ages anyway). I hope they put the fence where the old one was before it broke, not along the edge of their shed which is technically in bits of our garden now. Bah.

I'm thinking I probably will make a rack pack for the Strida. Things I will want it to have, for my reference:
-big central pocket with drawstring and flap over top
-waterproofness (possibly best achieved by one big flap that goes over the top?)
-little pockets for always-bicycle stuff like pump, spare tubes, spare lights/batteries (a pair of these?), lock, cycle maps, leg bands (for visibility rather than keeping trousers in - I can tuck my trousers into my socks quite well, thanks), that really annoying allan key, other stuff I might think of.
-'lastic on the outside for strapping the helmet to it
-some kind of good carrying handle and stowable shoulder strap in case I want to take it off the bicycle and use it as a bag
-a good way of attaching to the rack; I'm thinking straps with clips and also some vel-cro

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Oh, and I need to stop by ASDA and Robert Dyas to look for new shower hose and head, because our shower hose has come away from the shower head. Might look for some sort of fixative to get the grey water sorted out, too.

I was going to do that too, see who gets there first... (I was planning tomorrow morning).