It's Tuesday, it's another early morning bike ride

 Up well before the sun at around six this morning for an early morning bike ride

setting off in the almost dark, and glad of my second higher power headlamp for the first half of the ride, dodging bin trucks and the 0630 bus to the train station in Wangaratta, but very rewarding to see the clouds gradually turn pink as the sun came up.

One advantage of riding before it's fully light is that there are fewer early morning runners and dog walkers on the bike path - one curse is people with ear buds - they simply don't hear you if you ring your bell politely, meaning that I have to bellow 'behind you!' as loudly as I can to attract their attention.

Mind you I always say 'thank you' when they move off the track and always give oncoming runners as smile as well when they move off the centre of the track - after all we're all here on the same planet and we have to try and make this social cohesion thing work.

A little bit slower than last week, but that's because I stopped to talk to a carpenter on the way back to see if he'd be interesting in replacing some rotting weather board on my toolshed.

And then home for a shower and a cup of tea with what would once have been the morning paper, and is now a tablet computer and the Guardian online...