I want to ride my bicyle, I want to ride it where I like.

Yesterday I bought a new bike from Don Quixhote, a great chain of shops which sell almost everything at very cheap prices. I guess it's what's known as a "mama chari", the favoured bike of middle aged ladies who use the basket at the front for their grocery shopping. I look forward to getting around Tokyo on it and hopefully discovering some new places along the way, but not today as a typhoon is sweeping in. The temperature has now plunged at least ten degrees - up until a couple of days ago it had been over 30 degrees every day but it was only 19 degrees when I got up this morning.