By Paul
A decent number tuned up at a warm Nonsuch on Saturday and there was not really a short ride; Lynda took one group to Teddington Lock and I took the other to Molesey. Bereft of the sea, the river seemed the only sensible thing.
The ferns were huge and richly green in Bushy Park, a reminder that they have been around for five hundred million years and will long survive mankind, let alone this drought. But with the wide swathes of brown grass and the clutches of young deer gathered at the watering places it felt like we were riding through the Serengeti; you half expected a lean lioness to be stalking in the undergrowth.
There were twelve of us in my group including Rob'n'Ruth on the tandem and, attacked by no predators we had a pleasant ride to take tea at Eight on the River.
We meandered back past the lovely pondside church at Weston Green, designed by Edward Maufe, who designed Guildford Cathedral; the only hitch was a puncture for Alan on the way home on South Lane in Old Malden when at the roadworks there he ran over a screw big enough to hold the Forth Bridge together, which made a mess of his tyre and his mudguard. Oh, and I ran over a huge rat in The Grove at Carshalton.
Otherwise, another good, relaxing day out. Thanks everyone for the company.
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