Normal service is resumed. The bike has been retrieved from the cold damp shed and sits proudly dripping in it's rightful place in the front room because..............I've been out for a ride, just a short one, about an hour, and a slow one, very slow in places actually, but that being said, I'm back, well sort of!
Unfortunately I have broken a promise I made to myself, my wife, children and dog, the Dalai Lama, all higher beings, the choir episcopal, Warren Gatland and St. Shane Williams that when I went out for my first ride it would be nice and warm and dry and not raining, wet or slippery in any way. It was all of the above, I am truly sorry and repent for this consort with Beazulbub himself. However, I did survive, a little nervously I admit. Please do not tell anyone, especially Mrs T.