(re)cycling

After spending all day yesterday in the workshop I spent a good bit of today at home on one of my own bikes, annoyingly partly in the kitchen as it started to rain.  I acquired an old mudguard yesterday which more or less fits the front wheel of my commuter, and replaces the section of plastic bottle which was effective but only when traveling in a perfectly straight line.  In keeping with the tatty and undesirable appearance (of the bike, but that may possibly also describe the rider) the stays are bent and it has a crack which I covered with a bit of gaffer tape.