This morning's commute and other commuting stories

The socks I wear for 5-a-side are a mismatched pair made up of one sock that belonged to my French rugby club that's 10 years old, and one of my dad's old lacrosse socks, that must be, without exaggeration, 20 years old.

After 5-a-side I carefully make a point to remove them before putting my bike shoes on.

They're either still playing with them or they change throughout the day. South bound traffic started getting green a lot earlier than North a couple of weeks ago at about 8am when I'm heading through there but this morning I was late (about 8:30) and they both changed at the same time.

It's been like that for a while, but I think it's time or volume of traffic based as sometimes there's a delay and others they change about the same time.

Dad plays lacrosse...?
Mine too.

There are so few clubs and it is such a small world I would wager they know/know of each other.

My dad was an old Hulmeian (sp?).

I believe they became Brooklands at some point in the 90s when the club moved.

Manchester-based, yeah? For some reason he never pushed me into it, but did push me into swimming which I hated, and encouraged me with rugby, which I was bad at but continued well into my 20s.

Nice, frosty and sunny commute this morning. Richmond Park looks lovely in this weather.

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Wierd.

They defo know each other.
My Dad was an Old Hulmeian too, then went on to be a ref.

No way. Is Prince your last name?

I'll ask him.

No no... Prince is my online thing.

Maybe they've lacrossed paths...

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one extremely bouncy mtb with the seat slammed(??) and the riders legs spinning ten to the dozen slap bang in the middle of the cycle lane, but overall not bad. Extremely quiet.

This weather, glorious!
Why does it feel like Winter's just started when we're into Feb, it should have been like this in December...

We're not going to get any snow this year are we?

We had some last month.

I bought a t-shirt. "I lived through the great Streatham dusting 2016!"

I think that was fingerprint dust mate. ALL of Streatham got fingerprinted.

Again.

It was those BASTARDS from West Norwood what done it

They should be banged up.

4lyf

Boom. fucking. TISH

WEZT NORWOOD iz BEZT NORWOOD

UPPER NORWOOD is.... SUPPER.......NORWOOD?? ah fuck it

I have been using papadom on the hill lately...

upper norwood = croydon. ne fule no dat

It is a bit odd when they've spent more on their shiny pink back pack cover than they have on their bike.

I can confirm that in my case this is not true

In reply to all and sundry...

Big-up the Norwood shizzle! Haterz gon' hate. Feel dat! Believe!

Roads is too narrow. Minds is too narrow. Yo!

I think that was fingerprint dust mate. ALL of Streatham got fingerprinted.

Were they looking for a clue?