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Another great site for cyclists is www.sustrans.org.uk

I cycle into town quite a bit (only a couple of miles) but the road - even though a 40 limit - is down right SCARY!!!! Some drivers do NOT give proper clearence around a bike.

When we first moved up to Scotland I didn't drive at all and would always cycle to the shop to pick up the paper (10 mile round trip the short way) and thought nothing of it... well actually I did... I LOVED it. Realised just how much you miss when you are driving in a car (as a passenger then of course) - smells, sounds, wildlife etc.... oh, and sh*t on your head as you cycle under a rookery

I don't have a bike anymore though - once I get a job I'll definitely get one. Just hope my old knees will cope with it.

Wear a hat, Shirlz LOL

My problem is that I have to drop small person at nursery AND then look vaguely glamorous for work.... How do you do that after you've cycled up a big hill... the ride home would be good though!

Get the company you work for to prove how green they are, and suggest they should encourage their employees to cycle! I must admit, our institute is quite good at that kind of thing: They even built a new bike shed last year, and they've got several showers. Lots of people cycle to work. (I don't: Only 10 seconds walk across the yard for me! )

I'm not sure the vets could go out to an emergency on a bike (although, I'm sure at one time vets must have done!). I COULD cycle to work, but as I said, I'd have to get there early enough to stop myself looking shabby....

Just saw that you work in a vet's... If it's a country type of vet, you'd fit right in with mucky jeans. After all, your customers probably turn up in wellies half the time! (I do sometimes, when I go to the vet's.) If it's the urban type that deals with budgies, hamsters and lapdogs, oh well, I suppose you need to look a bit more citified...

We do both large and small animal (farm and pet, in other words)... Some of the farmers turn up VERY smelly, but they are nearly all really nice people, so kinda forgivable! They do like us to look clean and smart on reception though! Unfortunately, they had this silly idea that we should wear white shirts - ME and WHITE = MUCKY PUP!!! One horrid girl said she could wear the same shirt for two days - sometimes I have to change when I come home for lunch - after the beetroot, especially...!

With me it's tomato sauce and white shirts - fatal attraction!

In my friend's house the only white items on the washing line are her son's school shirts. She was going to complain that they had to wear white... The son spends most of his spare time in the workshop (as his father does), mucking about with greasy and rusty stuff - so white is definitely not a good idea. I think she always has to wash the shirts separately!

Yup! Grubs... the lot of us!! :) Best way if you ask me... When we were out collecting molehills (that sounds so silly!) I bent down and let the soil run through my fingers making a little "ohhhh" sound - so little one pulled off his gloves to try too - smiling - however, dh said... "no, dirty" - I told him not to be so silly - soil is fantastic! So little one and I got a little bucket and made mud pies for the next 20mins!!! he he

BRILLIANT - mud pies are what childhood is all about....

Real shame that you don't live closer Tigz - our two boys could have lots of fun together