Finding My Way: Close call, or just perfect timing?

Not the post I was going to write, a bit unplanned really and it all revolves around friends and food.
It all started yesterday after the gym. I called at my friends cafe to start the day with an early morning healthy breakfast of salmon, eggs, spinach etc and ended up with this perfect beast.

Mmmm! Yummy gooey perfection. Then went round to my local music store to see how a friend had connected up his new/old TEAC reel to reel. You wouldn't believe it, perfect. Even customers in the shop were commenting on the quality of the sound and how easy and natural it was to listen to.

Jump forward to today and after getting home after the last of my Christmas shopping and I get a phone call from a friend.
"Hi, would you like to come round to mum and dads for Sunday dinner."
This post should be called friends and food!
This is what I got!!

All lovely, complete with a couple of glasses of wine. But, and there always is one, I'd decided to cycle down, using my bike as mode of transport, unglamorous, unsexy just functional. Now the last time I visited these friends in the summer, for a bbq I ended up getting very well oiled, cycling home in the early hrs of the morning, with a very ropey head torch, several large trout in my jersey pockets whilst dodging sci fi dogs with LEDs .

Back to tonight, my friends were insistent that they give me a lift home as it had started snowing but I was having non of it, so off I set. Into the rain, sleet, hail then snow.

Hmmm, half way home and it became obvious that the cold has sapped my battery more than expected.