Reflections on a rainy day

Alliteration wahay!!!

Cycling in Lancaster is hilarious, or is it just me?

As usual in this beautiful city where I live, it's raining a lot. I'm praying that on this, the last day of Fresher's week, that Lancaster University Christian Union will be able to endure the rain and the fatigue today. keep going guys, for as Romans 8:31 says "If God is for us, who can be against us?"
Thanks to a lack of funds, I'm currently cycling onto campus at the moment. It's gotten harder now since I'm borrowing a mountain bike. It's a better bike, which means it's harder hehe.
What happened to my old bike is hilarious.
So, two friends and I decided to cycle from Lancaster to Arnside Knott in the Lake District a week ago, and my bike was, well, a road racing bike bought for a bottle of wine, so it worked, but y'know, it wasn't prepared for the offroading experience of a lifetime.
After the chain got caught twice after I changed gear, I changed gear again. This time the chain got itself lodged in the spokes and gears, therefore locking the back wheel and making me skid to a dramatic stop in the middle of the road.
To rectify this, we had to commandeer a pair of pliers from a nice elderly gent who lived by the road, and cut through three spokes, and YES! It was free! We could go on!
Apart from the fact that thanks to the skid, the wheel had buckled so much it could no longer turn. To cut a long story short I had to carry this thing to the nearest station, hop on a train, and my adventure was over.
Not quite...
Once back in Lancaster, dragging the wreck that had been my only form of transport, there came an almighty explosion that stopped people and dogs dead in their tracks. There was no longer a back wheel.

So now I'm using a friend's bike, traversing the torrential roads and hills and mad drivers that make up the Lancaster one way system. I am still alive, but wet, getting gradually fitter, and waiting, just waiting until I can afford to get driving....