I bought some toddler wellies on eBay on Monday last week and despite the latest delivery estimate being today the seller still hasn't got around to posting them  If they take any longer he'll have grown out of them before they arrive.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
I bought some toddler wellies on eBay on Monday last week and despite the latest delivery estimate being today the seller still hasn't got around to posting them  If they take any longer he'll have grown out of them before they arrive.
I ordered a pair of wellies, Size 12 . They were really cheap.  The arrived and they were kid size 12. oops.Â
I was in of one of the more affluent parts of SE London today ( they do exist) and what I saw made me incandescent with rage. I saw four instances of save the planet types putting their children at serious risk. I'm talking about the unregulated Heath Robinson contraptions that are attached to bikes for the transportation of the offspring of the ecologically aware.
1. A little cart attaches to the back of a bike with the child at exhaust pipe level. A driver overtaking someone directly behind them would not be able to see the trailer which is about two foot off the ground. I wonder if the contraption was reversed and the cyclist was 2ft off the ground, how safe they would feel.
2. A tandem type construction with the child's seat attached to a fixed rod. Again the child was at exhaust level
3. A back to front tricycle arrangement with two children at the front in a box
4. A weeks old baby in a sling on the front of a man riding an unadapted cycle
Why is there no highway code regulation about these lethal contraptions?
It’s ridiculous, these people on bikes. Not only putting kids at risk but traffic chugging away in second gear puffing out smoke when they can’t overtake. You don’t want to hear what my son says about it.  Cornwall full of cyclists pottering along the lanes, won’t get in and let him past,  thinking they’re saving the plant.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.Â
Cycling seems to have gone crazy in recent years. I don't know if it was after Olympic or Tour de France wins maybe but the numbers of road bikes around here has risen massively. I don't see that it saves the planet if you and your mates drive from miles away just to cycle up a challenging hill while causing lots of problems to traffic flow. Each to their own but I always wonder what the country would look like if these same people spent that time more productively or volunteering in some way.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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The arrived and they were kid size 12. oops.Â
I gave them to a friend with small children.Â
I saw four instances of save the planet types putting their children at serious risk. I'm talking about the unregulated Heath Robinson contraptions that are attached to bikes for the transportation of the offspring of the ecologically aware.
1. A little cart attaches to the back of a bike with the child at exhaust pipe level. A driver overtaking someone directly behind them would not be able to see the trailer which is about two foot off the ground. I wonder if the contraption was reversed and the cyclist was 2ft off the ground, how safe they would feel.
2. A tandem type construction with the child's seat attached to a fixed rod. Again the child was at exhaust level
3. A back to front tricycle arrangement with two children at the front in a box
4. A weeks old baby in a sling on the front of a man riding an unadapted cycle
Why is there no highway code regulation about these lethal contraptions?
away in second gear puffing out smoke when they can’t overtake.
You don’t want to hear what my son says about it.  Cornwall full of cyclists pottering along the lanes, won’t get in and let him past,  thinking they’re saving the plant.