Too hot, too cold, never just right
<rant>At the first sign of snow in Scotchlandia, you can expect delays on the trains. And believe me, we get snow up here. However, while living in Finland there could easily be 5ft of snow in the city and the trains were practically never delayed. Certainly never cancelled due to snow. Are we that unprepared?
So, today it hit 27C in sunny Scotchlandia in what is predicted to be the warmest day of the year. Now, 27C isn’t exactly super hot, but for Scotland it’s pretty warm. London easily hits 30 and Finland got up to the odd 35C or so. So why, when it hits a meagre 27C does First Scotrail cancel all the trains claiming the tracks are now too warm?
Did they use marshmallow for the tracks instead of steel? After standing in a bus queue for half an hour in the blazing sunshine, not a happy bunny am I. Tomorrow I think I may be taking the ole’ bike instead</rant>
On Saturday I headed off into Glasgow (after I got rid of Andy and Ian did a vanishing act) fully intent on purchasing a new bike from Dales. However, I returned with nothing but a new pair of shorts. A swanky new pair of shorts I should add.
Still, I popped out for a ride on Sunday morning and while zipping along the side of the Kelvin I turned a corner and had to slam on the anchors fair sharpish as I can face to face with a large fence and a Road Closed sign. Most unexpected. Turns out they’re upgrading the path. Diversion is not well signposted either. Oh well. Moo.