Today I did something I’ve never done before: took my bike apart, cleaned and oiled it and put it back together. I got all parts back to where they were before, and the bike runs much better now. I’m way proud, actually, for I’m used to thinking of myself as having nothing but thumbs, and being ambisinister to boot. The only mishap was dropping a spanner on the very toe a swan trod on last summer, but that’s ok — I have 9 other toes.