Thames :(

Alternative route this morning, along Grovesnor Road and Millbank, as although cold, it promised to be a clear, sunny morning.

A mistake. Not only was the wind blowing the wrong way, but the traffic along Millbank seems particularly determined to harrass bikes. And although Bazelgete, or his followers, no doubt had to build a wall along the Thames, it means you don't see a drop of water.

On the other hand, you can judge the barometer of the times, watching the dourness of the spook's faces as the rush into the MI5 building, see how perky Haw is after the court ruling that he shouldn't have been harrassed by the Met (as T4T on Today contemplated), and catch the sun glancing off the mother of parliaments, etc.

The ride up Westminster is further problematized by suicidal civil servants running out in front of you like lemmings, and vast articulated buses hoving along.