Not much to blog about so I haven’t made the effort to blog. Doesn’t seem much point in blogging “I did nothing, again”, but now I know I have some readers (hello CU) I guess I should make the effort to keep you all entertained. Perhaps I’ll just post some jokes up here instead, how’s this for starters: So I got home, and the phone was ringing. I picked it up, and said 'Who's speaking please?' And a voice said 'You are.'

Blogging does of course have the effect of exposing any activity and generating relevant feelings of guilt, so it does serve a purpose to get me up and out on the bike. Especially whilst the weather is so brutal (more of that later).

I hadn’t planned to get out this weekend (10th and 11th) due to various family commitments although the fact that I had a throat made from razor blades all weekend meant I was disinclined to move from the sofa anyway . Peaches put me to shame by completing 85km on Saturday and a further 35km on Sunday.

I did however cycle to work through all the bad weather last week (except Thursday when I was in London, so I missed spin) and lived to regret it. I rode home so fast on Friday evening that I burnt my face off. Yes, really. It was so cold that when I woke up on Saturday morning, my eyes and lips had swollen, I aged about 10 years and my skin, where it had been exposed, completely lacked moisture, causing Beth, in her sympathetic fashion to compare me to Sandstorm. Sadly not a mighty testosterone fuelled Gladiator but the sexually frustrated baddy from the Mighty Boosh. At least I can make a nice pine table.


I have had to use gallons of moisturiser to get back my usual youthful stunning complexion (if you’re familiar with underage alcoholic psoriasis sufferers).

There has been some relevant activity to shout about though. I have the raffle tickets printed, which is to be my main fundraising activity. I figure this to be less painful for people in these straitened times, but I’m still going to wait until payday before I pounce. First prize is a rather sexy little 8mp Panasonic camera, second prize £200 of Dixons/Curry’s vouchers and third a framed print from Eyevine (check them out: http://www.eyevine.com/ Big up the Crossy Crew).
Beth has also written a piece about her experience of SIDS for the Guardian which is to be printed in the magazine this weekend 17th January. Please buy it and use the emotions generated when reading it to rouse yourself and your friends in to sponsoring me in Tom’s memory (http://www.justgiving.com/craigmorrisfsid ). Thanks!