Grant style, per previous requests —
- 6am Walk out of house into pouring rain for pleasant Sunday ride to Cronulla.
- 6:15am Stop on Vimiera Road to fix flat rear tyre in downpour.
- Climb back on bicycle resisting curiously strong urge to turn around, ride home, and climb into bed.
- Notice how little traffic seems to be out on the Cooks River Cycleway today.
- Pedal into tempest on Botany Bay. Note south-west gale is almost perfectly head-on rounding the point at Sans Souci.
- Arrive at Cronulla, drop soaking kit into dryer, load new fridge onto trailer, drive back to Turramurra.
- Move old broken fridge out of garage.
- Move new broken fridge out of kitchen into garage.
- Move new fridge off trailer into kitchen.
- Load old broken fridge onto trailer, drive to Chateau d’Half.
- Load new new fridge onto trailer and collect a comically large adjustable spanner (bonus, thanks Half!). Drive to Cronulla.
- Move new new fridge into garage, drive old broken fridge to tip.
- Tip closed, drive back to Cronulla.
- Extract kit from dryer, load work clothes, shoes, and comically large adjustable spanner into backpack. (Seriously doesn’t even fit in there; no matter which way I stuff it in, one end of the spanner pokes out the top of the pack!)
- Hoist pack.
- Comically large adjustable spanner not so funny now.
- Ride into howling southerly expecting to blow all the way home.
- Note south-west gale has inconveniently shifted to the south-east, almost perfectly head-on rounding the point at Sans Souci.
- Become hopelessly lost in Olympic Park vortex. (Strava map looks like Etch-A-Sketch drawing.)
- Emerge in Rhodes to (a) darkening skies and (b) realisation that all the elevation between here and Turramurra has yet to be gained.
- Consider chucking comically large and increasingly unfunny spanner in the river.
- Note shoe sticking into back was annoying, now painful. Also, desperately needing to pee. Also: front tyre needing air.
- Stubbornly refuse to stop for anything that’s not a hot shower or a cold beer.
- 8pm Roll into garage. Head straight to kitchen to retrieve cold beer from new fridge — hey, the light works! — take cold beer straight to hot shower.
- Collapse in comfy chair and make odd, unintelligible noises for a good half an hour or so.