Windy windy windy!
Yesterday was really windy! Lords-cricket-ground-roof-part-blowing-offingly windy. Killing-peoplely-windy (which is really quite scary). 123kph gusts at Heathrow. Anyway, yes, quite windy. I still rode to work though, for some ridiculous reason. Well, the main reason was that it didn’t actually look like it would be that bad — it wasn’t really.
On the way to work, a few gusts blew me about a bit, but I also had the wind behind me through Regents Park, which was kind of fun. The way back was a bit less good, but actually possibly better than last Friday, when the wind was in my face for pretty much the whole ride home. Walking down Leather Lane at lunch wasn’t much fun though — I thought I might go for a walk in the (winter idea of) sun, but the wind was so annoying that I just retreated to the office.
When I got home, I was faced with the fact that the wind was so strong that it had actually blown the skylight in the bathroom fully open. There must have been some pretty serious Bernoulli action going on to lift it up — it’s pretty heavy! Anyway, we had to get a ladder and shut it — now it’s locked down as well.
Anyway, apparently this isn’t winter. I’m told by the weather reports that winter will arrive this weekend — with temperatures of zero reported cheerily as though they’re something to look forward to. Hooray! Better get me some leg warmers (for the cycling, of course)…