A Bug's Life

The postman rang twice; and knocked and rapped and thumped and generally made lots of noise, so I jumped out of bed to open the door and receive a package. Why is it that he delivers at 10, 11, or 12 on a weekday but 07:35 on a Saturday?

Five minutes later the doorbell rang again. I rushed downstairs, but there was no one to be seen. No vans, no non-delivery cards, no people wandering disconsolately away down the street.

And then it occurred to me: the doorbell stopped working for a while - what if it has been storing all the soundless bell-presses and only now releasing them, like slow glass but a slow doorbell? If I can calibrate this, I can work out which rings were me when I had no keys, and if we had a pane of slow glass fitted I could look out at myself.

Gosh, I'm being a bit random this morning. And if you've done six random things this morning, why not round it off with breakfast of [blindfolds self and reaches into cupboards] chilli, matzoh flour and sandwich pickle at [types "random" into Google Maps] Random, St Neots?

I have a new bicycle :-) well, I've paid a deposit on a new bicycle. It's a Probike Diablo for those who care, and I can pick it up on Monday. I felt a little foolish walking all the way back home with a pannier full of my old lock/helmet/etc - I thought I'd be riding back!

Dear Cambridge, please don't nick this one. Thank you.

Aha! I saw a poster for the MacMillan Cancer Support Sponsored Walk from Cambridge to Ely on May 4th, and I will sign up for that rather than the Oxfam walk on the grounds that Macmillan is the weekend before my exams and Oxfam is the week after and I don't trust my back to have recovered from the trip to Edinburgh. The walk is only 19 miles, but I can look forward to doing 26 next year :-)

Anyone want to join me/sponsor me?