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\"Don'tIt is very hot here in Fife. Not as hot as it is in Portland<\/a>, but they have a continental climate over there. I don’t like heat. I certainly don’t like spending my days poking about in skips wearing full PPE [ObNonHealth&SafetyAware;: Personal Protective Equipment, i.e. hard hat, hi-viz, steel-plated rigger’s boots] when the weather is like this:<\/p>\n

\"HOT\n<\/p>\n

Don’t like the heat. It makes me irritable and cranky and I don’t sleep properly. This makes me tired and grumpy and means I find it difficult to get up in the morning, especially when I’m having a bout of vivid and violent dreams, as I am at the moment. This in turn means that I miss my morning swim because I have to get to work, and that leaves me with either missing the swim or fending off screaming brats. Either of these things has a further negative impact on my mood.<\/p>\n

Right now I’m about as grumpy as a razorback with PMT and a ringworm infestation. Bizarrely this means that everyone thinks I’m cheerful because they don’t realise I cope with this level of irritation by forcing myself to be superficially chirpy. I’m also relatively unstable, as was evidenced yesterday when I sampled some of the Bosnian Turkish delight someone had brought back from holiday and it was like I’d been drip-fed a full score of chupa-chups in the space of ten seconds. I can’t even remember what I started wittering about but I think it was something to do with puffins being rabbits in disguise and drunk pigeons. Either way it caused the office ladies to ask me what I was on.<\/p>\n

“Sugar.”<\/p>\n

Well, sugar and warped biochemistry anyway.<\/p>\n

Oh gods. Screaming brats. Can I really face it? I did go out on the bike last night. You can tell it’s the Tour — normally you’d be ignored, treated as street furniture. At this time of year people lean out of passenger side windows, screaming at you. I think they mean it as encouragement, but having been a cyclist for as long as I have I instinctively take preparatory steps in case they are about to hit me with something. It’s like being overtaken by a motorised barnacle, grasping tendrils thrashing wildly in the search for morsels to sift from the air.<\/p>\n

It’s a bit like the crowds at the top of Alpe D’Huez, only everything happens at 25 mph.<\/p>\n

Please don’t. Just give a friendly wave once you’ve passed. Screaming and leaning out of windows is terribly distracting and somewhat nerve-wracking. I am not a morsel. You cannot eat me. Go be a barnacle somewhere else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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