Take a moment to think about how gutting it must be for Ken Livingstone, the former mayor of London and mastermind behind the city's cycle hire scheme, to have missed out on being the unofficial name of it purely by virtue of alliteration. Ken Bikes sounds like a Barbie spinoff so instead Londoners refer to the city's public bikes as "Boris Bikes", after current mayor Boris Johnson (they're actually named after a bank or something but who has ever used their real name?). And just as the Boris half of the title is inaccurate, so is the word "bike" a misnomer for a vehicle which more closely resembles an armoured tank- slow as hell but built for all terrains.
Brydie is an Australian writer and performer living in London and she complains exactly the same amount about the weather as every other Australian living in London. Yes, that is her natural lip colour, no, she will not be taking any further questions at this time.
