Wheeoo, I thought I was past being surprised at Dutch bicycles, but I’ve had to think again! Walking through Amsterdam is sort of technology fair for things bike-related, and you get used to seeing a family of four all hanging off the same two or three wheels, or somebody moving house with all his worldly possessions in the box of a bike, and suchlike. But this morning I caught a new one: a bicycle/wheelchair hybrid!

Granny sits in her wheelchair in front, with a manic grin and white hair streaming in the breeze. On the back there’s the back half of a bicycle, with a dutiful son-in-law (I’m guessing here, naturally) panting and straining to send them hurtling through the traffic. I wish I could have caught them on film, but even if I had a camera Granny was cracking the whip so enthusiastically that there’s no way I could have been fast enough. So let the eye of your imagination wander, and be amazed.