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Week 1 & 2 - Taking to South London's roads in autumn is going to be wet, so how dry does my kit keep me? Not very...

 New job - drive around South London collecting swabs from a cross section of the population for statistical purposes. Sometimes you need to arrange with up to 8 different housholds a time to collect the swabs. Oh, and you need to drop them off with a courier so they are taken to the lab within a tight timeframe. Seeing as the drop point is way down the A20 in Sidcup, the other side of that traffic hellhole Lewisham, a motorbike is the only way to keep your work days down to a reasonable time.  I started in September. My first week on the bike went well, until I arrived at Greenwich Park, only to find my phone was no longer in the holder. One of those mechanisms that grip each side, it was too easy for the phone to slide out.I went back on myself and sure enough, there it was at the side of the road, the screen crushed. Luckily my gf - aka JK - had not bothered to activate a new Samsung I had ordered for her 10 days prior. Naturally I grabbed it back, inserted sim and memory cards, and
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London traffic city

 Getting around London - how bad can it be? Say -  there is a pandemic that is freaking everyone out. Nobody wants to use public transport if they can help out. You cannot control your surroundings. A group of hot and sweaty individuals from foreign climbs might get on the tube you are on, and start coughing and sneezing everywhere. This happened to someone i know. So it is best to go from A to B on a bicycle. But what if you are carrying stuff, or are scared, or just not up to cycling? Drive ! Except the current mayor has come up with this terrific new scheme called LDN or somesuch. So various neighbourhoods and streets are closed to cars, forcing everyone on to the main roads and causing unnecessary jams. Its great for the people in the neighbourhoods who dont need to get places. But what about the rest of us? The roads outside zone 1 are now more jammed than they were pre-lockdown, Anyone who has tried to get through Lewisham, or avoid it by using the south circular recently, as I h
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