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Tried to watch this but got freaked out by the way he never blinks and closed the tab.

I like how on TripAdvisor about half the reviews for his place go along the lines of 'this would be OK but the owner is a rude aggressive wanker and we had to leave immediately once he started yelling at us'.

Oh yeah if I walk to work (which is sometimes nice when I'm at the office closer to my flat) I've been buzzed nearly every time by some tool on an electric scooter weaving around on the pavement. He regularly overtakes joggers and wears a helmet so he seems to be going at a fair clip but somehow this thing is even quieter than those electric unicycle things that were popular with a particular type of ballbag a couple of years ago, so he'll just blast past me and I'll jump out of my skin.

Saw a few people still wearing down jackets on my way in. I had on a lightweight thin thing and I had a real sweat going so they must have been suffering.

'Giving someone a menacing look without attacking them' could potentially get you an assault charge with the right context, surely?

I often get something like that in the winter; throat clearing and coughs seem painfully loud and everything else is muffled on that side. What usually sorts it for me is taking small frequent sips at a drink and it suddenly pops back.

Those Chrome shoes look a bit more 'normal' right? Always seem fairly pricey over here though.

Ah I see; I'd always assumed it was Haringey just for a squiggle at that end, as the GP surgery near there is counted as Haringey CCG while the one on the Crouch Hill crossroad is Islington. I always see them placed on the south side so that makes sense.

Mobike are definitely placing bikes in Haringey even if they don't have an agreement with them; I regularly see them perfectly lined up in groups of 8 or so on Stroud Green Road near the crossroads with Tollington Park which I'm sure is within the Haringey border.

Tech site comment sections are going hard on victim blaming, saying she should have had wheel reflectors and reflective clothing and that 'she was jaywalking' as if that excuses anything. Shouldn't the car detect her whether she was lit up like a Christmas tree or not? This is supposed to be able to stop for a deer bounding into the road, right? And it can't recognise a woman purposefully walking a bike over. I even saw a comment saying 'this looks like a suicide if anything'. Yeah that makes sense, typical suicidal behaviour of walking slowly into a road with a bike so its ghost can join you in the afterlife and give you something to ride around on.

Walking commute again as my chest is a wreck right now. Some tosser in a white Beemer ploughed through a crossing while I was on it with no attempt to stop; caught up with him stuck at some temporary lights and surprise surprise he was on his phone not looking at the road at all. He moved a bit further down and I sneaked up and got him and his plate on video. I think you can just about see his phone screen lit up in his lap but unfortunately my camera is crap and there was a lot of light reflecting off his window. Still going to give reporting him a go though; wish I'd gone in a bit closer but I didn't want him to spot me and quickly hide his phone.

I had a GripGrab headband to cover my ears which was fantastic and actually fitted my big chunky head, but sadly it suddenly vanished without a trace. I think either I took it off while in a shop and left it at the checkout because I do that all the time, or my wife went on a tidying spree and flung it in a cupboard somewhere because I tend to leave my kit all over the hallway. Can recommend if you've got a pumpkin head like me though.
https://www.gripgrab.com/collections/winter-headwear/products/headband-windster

Walking in today I saw one genius clearing the tiled path to his house (and a big stretch of pavement outside) with warm water in a watering can. Will avoid that side of the road on my way back.

Yeah a body was found in the lake apparently.

What're the chances of anything coming of making a report without any video evidence? Saw a Prius jump a red light outside a primary school when a dad and his kid hadn't even reached the opposite pavement and it really pissed me off, so I quickly got my phone out (I was walking I should say) and noted his plate and just reported him. 100% I wasn't mistaken because a car going the other way stopped for the red and he was way past them before they started off again.

I thought the gate closures were for a 'safer park'?

Not my commute but my wife always takes a cut the wrong way down a residential one way street when she cycles to the station to avoid a right turn across a junction she hates; today she pulled in between some cars to let someone go past but they blocked her in when they got level with the bike and an old woman apparently started yelling at her until she had to get up on the pavement and go around.
On the one hand I try to avoid doing this because it does piss people off way more than you'd expect but on the other I kind of want to find and key the fuck out of that car because the woman sounded totally vile.

You can be my briefcase wanker

Did anyone see that Hugh F-W thing on TV maybe a year or two ago where he had a whole segment on current takeaway coffee cups being basically impossible to recycle due to the way they're bonded with the plastic? A guy had invented one that could easily be recycled but nobody was having it because it cost slightly more so it wasn't getting off the ground. You would think that maybe the slight hit in costs from that would be evened out by the potential moral high ground profits to be had.

Eerily quiet on my way in today. Was told by manager yesterday that we could just finish up once the last client was done only to find one of the newbies has decided to take it upon herself to book someone in at... 4 pm. Would have left just after lunch in daylight if she hadn't done that.

Not cold but drizzly and a bit miserable. Drivers back to NGAF - got honked at for allowing a small child to cross the road and yelled at because a MGIF attempt was foiled by a traffic island. Took Hanley Road instead of my usual route to avoid the school run for a change; dunno what it is but that road surface always sucks the life out of the ride and I feel like I'm pushing through treacle.

Agreed to go out of my way to King's Cross this morning to pick up something for the office but couldn't find the headband I usually wear to protect my ears when it's cold. Man alive were they red when I finally got in! Turned out it was totally pointless going there as I didn't have the right forms but I did quite like the bike-specific traffic lights in parts of Camden; I don't normally have a reason to cycle round there even though I don't live that far away and it was a pleasant surprise.
Also on my way in I finally saw the owner of this bike that's often locked up near work and had to stop to tell him I thought it was great.

Is that the one that was on their Instagram recently? Thought that looked great when I saw it

I've tried a few but I always end up with https://www.hasbean.co.uk/ - good prices, always respond quickly to emails and roast the same day they post out. Royal Mail have lost a couple of packs from them in the past five years I've been using them and they always just sent a replacement with free first class postage with no quibble. Pact are also decent and I would use them otherwise, just like that Has Bean have more sources in Africa and Asia for variety.

Yeah it's not the greatest planning and a wider middle lane would probably be easier for cyclists, especially when turning in from the other road (although scaffolding and bin lorries sometimes block most of that section in the mornings and you can only just squeeze down one side using whichever cutout gives you the space); I think it's not that way to prevent cars chancing it as in the above post but the middle bollard can be dropped out, I assume for emergency vehicles. For that reason you need to have a quick look ahead if you want to use that road though just to make sure nobody's coming the other way; this guy was on autopilot and got grumpy when he was snapped out of his reverie.

I like to use this road on my way in and out because it's a dead end for cars and has a couple of cutouts for bikes on the left and right so it's usually quiet. Last night while I was waiting in the left cutout for some cars to pass so I could be on my way some grizzled dude on a bike turned off without looking and almost smashed into me, then immediately tried to cop an attitude and said 'the fuck are you doing just sitting there mate?' I was pretty baffled and said 'what are YOU doing, just use the other one' and pointed to the other spot about 3 metres away. He still carried on sitting there in the middle of the road though glaring at me like he'd caught me throwing batteries at his kids so I had to follow up with 'go ON, dickhead!' He trundled off looking back at me and eventually came up with 'no you're the dickhead!' from some distance away.