Cycling through the Seasons of Love

WARNING - IF YOU'RE EASILY OFFENDED THEN LOOK AWAY (Later in this blog I'll be quoting from Team America World Police)...

My friend S is doing a Bike Ride from Leicester to East Coast vacation hotspot Skegness in a couple of weeks for Help the Heroes and asked me if I'd go on a ride last Saturday for 'practice'. On the way to Glenfield, I was cycling up Letchworth Rd when 'Seasons of Love' from Rent came on. It is the only song from a musical that's on my Blackberry (honest) and there's many places I cycle that I would be a touch embarrassed to have a song from Rent blaring out - but not the middle class haven that is Letchworth Road, it's a Letchworth Road kind of song.

The thing is - I can't hear any song from Rent without thinking of the Team America World police spoof of it 'Lease' with the world's most unpolitically correct song 'AIDS'. The words are in fact almost unprintable, so on second thoughts I'm reluctant to post them on this blog. The spoof of Rent is not big or funny(weeeellll....) or clever (actually, it's quite clever in a purile way) but if you want to check it out on YouTube then I won't tell anyone...

Anyway, S and I managed 18 miles (me a further 4 to Glenfield and back) despite the fact my neck was a bit dodgy and I couldn't look left. S had to constantly ride on my right, and look left at junctions.

For the record, my neck has now completely seized up which is a bit shit. Ironically I have just spent the last half an hour on the phone to Ticketmaster complaining that they have booked me a disabled space for Stevie Nicks at Hard Rock Calling when I said general admission. Maybe they knew something I didn't.