The dozy dog

You can tell I've got a new toy - yet another piece of video. Here's an encounter with a dog along the Regent's Canal - it was pretty funny as the dog just wouldn't move out of the way. The owner was very good about it - not saying "lousy cyclists" but "sorry, get out the way you dozy dog" (and I'm pretty certain he wasn't talking to me). You just have to slow down and wait in those circumtances. Great to see that I did actually use my bell - there's a "two tings" rule on the Canal to alert pedestrians that you're coming. I must be more law-abiding than I remember ...

The "two tings" rules of conduct are on the Waterscape website

Good British innovation spotted on the roads ...

As I battled the steady London drizzle on my bike this morning, I couldn't help but laugh when, as I passed through the back of Islington, the following arrangement:

- two ladies walking side by side
- one was pushing a wheelchair
- sitting on the wheelchair was a nice looking dog - probably a Jack Russell
- rigged above said dog's head was an umbrella held in place on the wheelchair

This reminded me of something I spotted on Friday as I was going over Old Street roundabout:

- man on normal looking bike
- strapped to the back of his bike was one of those posh wooden wine crates
- it was embossed with the very fine "Chateau de Beaucastel". A wine I've certainly tasted but almost equally certainly not tasted enough of.

I thought this was a great new way of carrying your stuff around on a bike. I suppose it's not impossible the guy actually had a few bottles of the great wine in there, though surely this would be a mad way of getting fine wine from spot A to spot B?