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Another foggy morning, a bit warmer than yesterday. Again the sun starts to peek through somewhere past Huntingdale station and the fog burns off just after Clayton Road. Cam has borrowed the headlight I normally use on the fixie, so today I rode the AWOL to use the old #Cycliq that’s permanently attached – shame about the firmware – I purposefully charged it overnight, but on unplugging it something must have gone wrong and although it makes the beeping “turn on” noise and the power light…

Off down Scotchmans Creek Trail in the general direction of home, but with a bit extra, down to East Malvern Station and up past the Urban Forest and through Boyd Park. Odd bit of #Garmin behaviour along the way though, after having been on the charger all afternoon and at around 92% battery, it spontaneously rebooted about 1.5km in while I was on Gardiners Road, came back on as though I’d pressed the stop button with the “Cancel/Save ride”.

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Getting towards the winter end of autumn, there’s fog about and it is definitely down below ten degrees. Misty fog down the Djerring Trail as far as Clayton, then it usually seems to clear up for the ride up north into the suburb Overcast, 8°C, Feels like 7°C, Humidity 93%, Wind 2m/s from N - by Klimat Garmin / Strava / ridewithgps

Sunday afternoon outing, off upstream along the Scotchmans Creek Trail through the suburbs and up to Glen Waverley, then down the hill to the creek. Wended my way through streets I’ve not ridden before and saw an amazing array of absolutely enormous mega-mansion faux-chateau boxes. Truly hideous in my opinion, and not a skerrick of vegetation left on the block as one by one an old house and garden in the “sought-after leafy eastern suburbs” is bought and bulldozed and a huge box built in its…

The latest email from Curve had come in, reminding people to drop in and see the new shop now that they’ve relocated – so I did. Just down the road from the old shop, and full of lots of titanium goodness A detour on the way there up the Anniversary and down the Ferndale Trails, then in along the creek and around the river. Homewards was a bit of semi-random side streets through Toorak and parts in that direction, colouring in a few #squadrats squares

The standard Saturday morning shopping. Grey, and with light rain Light drizzle, 14°C, Feels like 13°C, Humidity 89%, Wind 3m/s from SSW - by Klimat Garmin / Strava / ridewithgps

The classic Friday afternoon escape from the office, out, out, out into the drizzly mist for the ride home Light drizzle, 15°C, Feels like 11°C, Humidity 75%, Wind 7m/s from SW - by Klimat Garmin / Strava / ridewithgps

A bit of rain, a lot of puddles, cold and windy and feeling like winter Drizzle, 13°C, Feels like 10°C, Humidity 85%, Wind 7m/s from WSW - by Klimat Garmin / Strava / ridewithgps

Managed to sneak out for half an hour between rain squalls for an “enjoyable” little lap of the suburb. Garmin says 10°C, feels a lot less. Up and over the Atkinson Street hill in the slippery leaves, then dodge the large puddles at the Dandenong Road intersection … “In the future, the crossing will be rebuilt” (in the now it is a paddling pool) Forgot that the Scotchmans Creek Trail and bridge over Warrigal Road are closed “for works” so a detour around the tafe and cross at the lights, then…

A brief half hour break while working at home, only enough time to get up to Murrumbeena and back. I did manage to find a laneway that I suspect I may have never previously seen! Lived near here for almost 30yrs and today I spotted a “Large vehicles advised not to enter” sign on what looked like a driveway for a block of flats, but turned out to be a lane between two blocks down to the rear of some of the Neerim Road shops.

Back home along the creek. So very repeatable Mainly clear, 16°C, Feels like 14°C, Humidity 62%, Wind 3m/s from WSW - by Klimat Garmin / Strava / ridewithgps

The same route as usual, but with a bit of miserable light misty rain Light drizzle, 13°C, Feels like 11°C, Humidity 85%, Wind 5m/s from W - by Klimat Garmin / Strava / ridewithgps

One of those not quite bad, but just everything not really good rides. A bit too windy, a bit of rain, an uninteresting commute. Glad to get home Partly cloudy, 17°C, Feels like 13°C, Humidity 59%, Wind 8m/s from NNW - by Klimat Garmin / Strava / ridewithgps

Odd. Strava seems to have decided that my default activity type has changed to “gravel ride” and default bike to “Shiny”. Both wrong this morning Clear sky, 14°C, Feels like 10°C, Humidity 73%, Wind 6m/s from N - by Klimat Garmin / Strava / ridewithgps

A damp Sunday afternoon out exploring up northwards near the Anniversary Trail and across the suburbs, then down to the freeway and river and home via Toorak. Route vaguely directed by #squadrats and the missing squares. Lots of concrete roads and large piles of fallen autumn leaves, very tempting to ride whooshing through them … except for the thought that maybe there was a large rock hidden under there Partly cloudy, 21°C, Feels like 19°C, Humidity 69%, Wind 7m/s from N - by Klimat

The usual Saturday morning jaunt to the local shops, no fish today because there are other dinner plans, but fresh bread and something for tomorrow. The bakery has acquired one of the local alarmist Nimby handouts warning that Oakleigh is about to be overrun by 12-storey apartment towers due to the state government planning zones, so I detoured back up and through Galbally Reserve to see if the posters there have been refreshed – apparently not, but there’s so many going around that the local…

4㏘ & I’m out of work, its a warm sunny afternoon & I thought I’d head over to “The Count” for a beer in the sun …. Nah, of course not, shut as always, despite the ads I keep seeing. Amusingly, last Saturday (Sun?) in the cinema an ad for them came on “Why not have your next get together at The Count?” & Jo & I said in lock-step “No, they’re always closed!

It’s the same route, to the same place, at the same time. I’m running out of ways of describing it unless something untoward happens Mainly clear, 19°C, Feels like 15°C, Humidity 51%, Wind 5m/s from N - by Klimat Garmin / Strava / ridewithgps

Another break in the home-work life, up through Boyd Park and the Urban Forest to East Malvern station, then loop back around to Carnegie and home along the Djerring Trail. Amusingly, it was at leaving-school o’clock, so the first part through the park was an intermittent sea of primary school kids on foot and bikes with their parents, then the school crossing over Dandenong Road was the most magnificent example of entitled carbrain driver as a woman drove up and parked in the no-stopping zone,…

The afternoon working-from-home break, a bit later than usual. The rhombus of Murrumbeena, East Malvern station, Scotchmans Creek Trail then up and over the Atkinson Street new bike lane to the shops. Grabbed the milk but ended up standing around talking with another cyclist who arrived at the same time – talking bikes and hearing of his ride last weekend along the Yellowbelly Track, one I’d previously tagged into the bucket list

Once again the app. tries to upsell on $2..$5 “custom” watch faces and once again I find the default free one I used back when I first configured the thing

Heading home as the sun goes down, starting to get a little bit dusk-like in the trees along the creek Overcast, 21°C, Feels like 23°C, Humidity 70%, Wind 1m/s from SSE - by Klimat Garmin / Strava / ridewithgps

Not quite clear, not quite fog, just a light mistiness in the air and blurring of the trees Overcast, 11°C, Feels like 9°C, Humidity 98%, Wind 3m/s from NNE - by Klimat Garmin / Strava / ridewithgps

Two finds on the way home today; a torn up black cloth wallet containing a scrap of paper and a Tile bluetooth tracker – I tried to send a message as per the Tile’s QR code, no idea if it worked. The other was a large truckload of dumped household rubbish, someone has driven through the gates onto a vacant block and tipped out a mass of clothes, toys, busted furniture, the works.

Down the trail, up the hill, over the road and into the campus while on the bike Overcast, 13°C, Feels like 12°C, Humidity 94%, Wind 2m/s from NNW - by Klimat Garmin / Strava / ridewithgps

South and west today, enjoying the afternoon sun and filling in a few streets and areas that the apps. that rule my life say I have not visited. Yes, hello #squadrats, I think you’re in charge now. Lots of fun to see if I can plot optimal routes to get there from here and over there, then back. Sunny, warm, pleasantly suburban Mainly clear, 25°C, Feels like 21°C, Humidity 32%, Wind 5m/s from NNW - by Klimat