It was a nice commute for me, slightly marred by a couple of events.
At
this junction, another cyclist shouted at a car driver for being in the advanced stop area (actually he was well over the more advanced stop line as well). This caused him to turn into the classic apoplectic, "Come here and say that" raving driver. I might have had some more sympathy for the cyclist, except that he was cycling across the pedestrian crossing part of the junction, and as guilty of breaking the law as the driver.
Of course the driver continued to shout out the window, even when the lights had turned green, until the drivers behind him started using their horns.
Later on, crossing Clapham Common, I almost got hit by another cyclist who was so engrossed in his mobile phone, that he was making no effort to actually watch where he was going. When I shouted out something like "Careful!" he almost came off, with a very alarming wobble and apologetic "Sorry". If it's that important, why not stop and use the phone? It wasn't as though he was belting across town to a meeting, he was bimbling across Clapham Common in jeans and t-shirt. Stopping on the cycle path wouldn't have blocked anyone, and would have been a lot safer than the erratic wobble back and forth across the path. This wasn't your typical teenager with a mobile phone stuck to the side of their head, this was a late 40s, early 50s bloke on a reasonable looking dropped handlebar bike.
All that aside, the weather was very pleasant this morning. Mild and dry, with little wind.