Hurrah for new achievements!

I did my first ride with panniers yesterday, into town for a couple of 4lb bags of cat-food and a few other bits. Stuff that would be quite uncomfortable to carry by hand is no problem at all in the panniers. My riding this year is much more normal life stuff, shopping and nursery etc, it's nice to save the money on fuel. I wanted to go for an off-road ride today but it's been very windy and a bit grey. Which wouldn't normally bother me too much but we've been so spoiled with the sunshine recently.