More exercise than planned

I had a flat tyre on the way to work this morning. Which meant i had to walk my bike several Ks to find a functioning air hose (petrol stations aren't big on maintaining them, as they're not big revenue spinners) and then had to sit and wait outside the nearest bike shop for 10 mins before it opened.

Net result a fresh new puncture-free tyre, arrival 40 minutes late to work, and the nagging thought that giving up the bike and just driving to work instead would have saved me all this time and hassle.

But as if the universe – or something – had read that subversive, fleeting, anti-bicycle thought, the first thing i saw when i entered the office was the alarming headline "Humans causing new extinction event", beside a photo of an appropriately polluting black smoking chimney against a clear blue sky.

Apparently "An Australian National University scientist says the planet is losing species at a similar rate to the period when the dinosaurs were wiped out."
And whilst, if you read down to the depressing fact that even cutting our emissions down to zero now might be too late, i don't need a better reason to persevere with the cycling. I will keep dodging dodgy taxi drivers, L-platers and obnoxious buses. And nearly falling off my seat whenever anyone actually slows down and gives me right of way.javascript:void(0)

It's the least i can do for our Earth.