London's Drive to Work Day

Well I drove in to work today. I will admit though it was because I failed to get up in time to cycle.

You're suggesting driving was quicker than cycling?

Preposterous, I'm not sure whether the lynch mob will burn you as a heretic or behead you and parade your lifeless noggin around WC1 on a cargo bike.

Reminds me. When I enquired as to whether my colleague was cycling to work this week, she became really defensive:

"Oh I'm far too old for that in this weather!" (She's about 40 and it's not even snowing yet!)

"I've just got so much on at work." (You are a classroom assistant in a private nursery - the kids are in at 9 and gone by 4. Besides, that affects your commute how exactly?)

"Oh, I just do the cycling for fun really." (All the more reason to keep going with it, surely? Although how you can ever have fun on that heavy lump of junk I don't know.)

It's not my place to condemn her and didn't want to argue her points. I don't feel smug. I do feel a bit sad/puzzled that there are some people who still prefer to drive even after they've experienced cycling.