"True to form where you and bikes are concerned"

My title today reflects my friend Harry's reaction to my latest disaster -
half of my bike-lock key remains in the lock leaving me in the unenviable
position of working out how to steal my own bike. Fortunately I was
visiting friends and the bike was not locked to anything fixed, but it is
still a big and quite depressing problem.

That aside however, life is good. I am starting to really like Bath. I
like the fact that I have a desk and computer in the MSc room. I like the
fact that the CU is lively and ecumenical. I like the 50m swimming pool on
campus, which is free for students. I like the way people put washing up
liquid in the fountain in Great Pulteney Street making it go all foamy.

I don't like the buses (and cannot therefore understand Mugford's love of
them) but I am slowly getting used to them. Slowly being the operative
word.

I still miss poncing around in a gown.

Comments

Rachael said…
I'm glad other people put washing up liquid in fountains, I was beginning to think it was only the poor children living in Egham!! only now they've taken the water out of the fountain!!!
Wed Oct 04, 09:57:00 AM GMT
Anonymous said…
They do that in Manchester too - the big tap things in front of the Triangle. It's great fun.
Wed Oct 04, 12:21:00 PM GMT
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