Out today trying to shake the lead out as I am planning some cycling adventures this year and so I need to keep up my reasonable level of fitness. So up and out to the edge of the Peak District through Old Brampton dodging light snow showers and a bit of hailstoning to boot. Speaking of boots in today’s litany of roadside discarded items were a pair or workmans rigger boots. Maybe the new local ‘Screwfix’ is having an environmental impact already in less obvious ways. I also encountered a Robbie Williams ‘Swings both ways’ CD disc and case on route both landing conveniently title side up. Flung with gusto seemingly by a passing motorist and music critic, or critical passenger. Sometimes I wonder whether I should be doing my bit for the environment and the local aesthetics by picking up the litter that I spy as I go. There’s so much crap loitering along the way though that I’d never be on the bike and where would I dispose of the bin bags? The amount of litter is a sad indictment however of today’s thoughtless road user. I say road user as I suppose I can’t single out ‘the motorist’ as the only culprit. Though it’s unlikely Robbie hit the dirt from horseback.