I have a heavy cold with stupid hacking cough, which is really hacking me off. Going to have an early night if I can persuade Whizz to read me a bed time story.

Sorry folks worked 12 hours - too tired to eat let alone write, so no Bike tonight.

I'm going to watch Tom Hanks' latest film, 'Sully' tonight, so I'll probably be too late to write Bike. Had a nice day for my birthday and the fresh cream sponge I ordered to take to my committee meeting was really good.

Sorry folks, I ran out of time trying to verify some stuff for the latest Bike. Hopefully I'll get it sorted tomorrow.

I also ended up with a boot full of mud and dirty water when I slipped into a ditch while out doing fieldwork with the RSPB. Took me ten minutes to get my sock clean enough to wash and my boot might be dry by Christmas! Oh the joys of fieldwork.

I've posted another part of Bike which I hope will please the addicts and possibly encourage some new readers to try it insofar as the episode is in a way self contained and has a complete story in it.

It appears after the child of a divorced parent was removed from her custody because she allowed the child to dress as a girl has encouraged other separated or divorced parents to challenge the diagnoses of transgender children and the custody of the child with the sympathetic parent.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/nov/22/parents-fear...

A creditable review of last night's Channel 4 documentary about two children attending the Tavistock Clinic for gender dysphoria.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/nov/17/kids-on...