Oh bugger

The real downside of the freezing snowy weather is opens up new pot holes in London's roads. I hit one on my way home today. One of those unavoidable things when you have cars either side of you. I braced myself and stayed on my bike but my pannier, laden with shopping, didn't and ended up under the wheels of a car being dragged along.
Managed to retrieve it to find that my large carton of rice milk had been flattened emptying its contents all over my shopping, handbag, proofs I was taking home to read and the brand new t-shirt that had just arrived mail order. My bags of nuts and seeds had also burst and the contents were thoroughly dampened.
Fortunately none of my valuables: iPod, camera and mobile were damaged.
Had to gingerly cycle the rest of the way home with my pannier dangling over my handle bar as the hooks for the rack had snapped off.
Nice end to the day and now I have to buy a new pannier.

Some people will do anything to get out of doing some work