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