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But I ddin't want this one This morning whilst riding into work, I was alongside a double decker bus in the adjacent bus lane. It seems a driver at a junction had stopped sticking his car's nose out just a little so the bus had to pull out a little bit to avoid taking the car's front end off. The driver of said bus did this without indicating or seemingly checking his mirrors because he swung out right in front of me. I dropped the anchors and just about avoided slamming myself into the back of a double decker at 30 mph. Had I hit it, I would certainly have been thrown off the bike. I would probably have been run over by the closely following rush hour traffic. Two minutes later, and still a later shaken, I almost turned right, plumb in front of an oncoming car. I had turned the handlebars and twisted the throttle but, thank gods, some warning instinct or sixth sense made me look just as I did so. Anchors away again! To be honest, this sort of thing is a little par for the course, though it's not usually double deckers, so you learn to shake it off. But two near misses in as many minutes is somewhat harder to recover from. I was feeling physically sick all the rest of the way into work. I should probably have just turned round and gone home but hoped I might to feel better when I got to work. At work, people immediately thought I was ill so I must have looked terrible. I felt like I was going to be sick and I couldn't focus. Easy things like typing in my password required a second or two to recall them. I made myself a mug of hot sweet tea, my manger sent me to have a quiet sit down but I was still feeling crap. So I got sent home. I should probably have taken the tram and left the bike. I didn't! I've had two bikes stolen already; I'm not leaving my scooter probbaly overnight in Manchester City Cente. Besides if the horse tries to throw you, you're supposed to get straight back on, right? As the rush hour had finished there was virtually no traffic and I took it slowly and carefully. I am now curled up on the sofa with another cup of tea and I'm staring to feel a little better. A bit of lunch is in the oven; food will probbaly help too. This blog is helping also. I'm able to make sense of what happened, to work out why it affected me like this. It sounds wierd but it bothered me that I was so bothered by this, getting me caught up in a circular loop. Thinking about it, I'd probably have been OK if it had only been the bus but two was probably too much to just brush off. Anyway lunch is ready. Food, a cuppa and then after I think I will chill out and watch some DVDs. My new Millenium Trilogy box set would be cool Tags: personal, scooter, work
Current Mood:  shocked
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It's my birthday today and so far it has been great. I've been off work since Thursday and I'm off work tomorrow as well. Spent most of Thursday and Friday chilling out and watching some of the complete Star Trek: Deep Space Nine that I received for Christmas. Yesterday was brilliant! My friend Bev (who had her birthday on Monday) and I went to London to see the musical Rock of Ages. But before that we went to Earls Court to a little Italian restaurant I know. It was wonderful. Good food and great service. And when the owner of the place heard we'd blown in all the way from Manchester for a double birthday bash, we got given a complimentary glass of Liqueur each, which was a lovely thing to do and just topped off the meal. Then it was time for the show. It was brilliant. I'm not doing a review here but it has all the old 80's Rock songs I grew up listening to and- as befits the material - fails to take itself too seriously. It is a good show and if you have a fondness for overblown 80s Rock you should go see it. Today, I have opened my cards and present (I got a copy of Stephen King's 'On Writing') and have watched more DS9. I have also received several phone calls wishing me Happy Birthday from friends and family, including a friend in Germany, which was all the more lovely for being unexpected. On Facebook I recived loads of Happy Birthday posts on my wall. To those of you reading this on Facbeook, thank you very much. You have helped make my birthday a memorable one. I have gone out for a splendid lunch at my favourite restaurant which was accompanied by some equally splendid glasses of wine. My pudding, when it came, had a candle on it. I kept the candle and it is even now adorning the mini-pizza I am having for tea. Tomorrow I am planning to go the pictures and see the remake of Girl With A Dragon Tattoo Tags: birthday, cinema, theatre
Current Mood:  bouncy
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I had a brilliant day yesterday. I know a group of girls who and have sorta become an honorary or associate member. Well, they were going on a day trip to Whitby and asked me if I'd like to go. So I got up at 6.30 to be picked at 7.30, to catch a coach at 8.00. It was a nice but long trip down. The roads through the North Yorkshire Moors are stunning - I want to go back on the scooter. Got into Whitby around 12.30 and we went for lunch at a little cafe called Sherlock's on Baker Street (LOL) . Bev had a Dracula Delight sundae (Chocolate and vanilla ice cream decorated with a chocolate bat). Then we browsed a Gothic clothing shop. We were all tempted. Me by a black dress shirt with a cravat and a lovely red velvet red waistcoat (I may still go online to order the waistcoat) I eventually walked out with a new belt, a shiny belt buckle and a skull and crossbones bandanna Another Gothic shop followed which had some nice daisho (sets of samurai sword) and a very Gothic throne in which you could have your picture taken. I was dressed appropriately all in black,boots, jeans, t-shirt, my bandanna, oh and the long leather jacket. Had I known how hot it would be yesterday, I may have thought again. That said if you're gonna wear a full length black leather jacket a la Spike anywhere, then Whitby is the place to do it. Sometimes, you have to make sacrifices. After that, three of us went around the Dracula Experience, a sort of walk though haunted house attraction themed around Dracula. The couple behind got quite a shock dressed as an actor dressed as Dracula jumped out of them. After this ice cream happened followed by boat trip around the harbour aboard a replica of Captain Cook's ship, the Endeavour, which set sail from Whitby. If you go to Whitby you have to do this, it's the best way of seeing the ruins of the Abbey. You sail out of the harbour and you can see the Abbey perched above you on the headland. Then we had a walk around the old town and we went into one of the shops selling Whitby Jet and a very cute silver bat pendant with jet eyes was bought by one of the girls Then we went into another cafe for a quicu cuppa before some brief souvenir shopping after which we got back on our coach. The driver took us back by a different route as apparently York was a traffic jam so we got to see yet more breathtaking North Yorkshire scenery. I finally got home at dead on 9pm. A long day but a really great one Photos: www.facebook.com/media/set/Tags: personal
Current Mood:  happy
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