Cracking ride into work today. Managed to slip down the outside of a queue coming onto warwick avenue, short cut the mini roundabout and got a good swing up into Clifton Gardens. Swift descent down to the canal at Little Venice, scooting around the i-pod wearing, nero toting bipedal obstacles, fast dap past Sheldon square and then one of those heart-stopping swerving paths through two opposing streams of commuters walking in and out of Paddington Station. Steady pedal past the longboats in Paddington Basin, sniffing the coal stoves, and then out onto the back road by St Mary's Hospital. Long pause at the lights on Edgware Road but then a long succession of greens on the back-hack through Marylebone....even got across Baker street without slowing! Couple of shouts to more i-pod clad oblivious stray walkers before a final swing to the office. Yey! The joys of urban bike commuting ( I do not do not do not miss the sweet lanes and hills of home........erm.....)