I’ve been looking at the CTC forum. Yesterday CJ (Chris Juden) posted two items which I think will interest you:
http://forum.ctc.org.uk/viewtopic.php?f=45&t=92645&start=165#p852275
http://forum.ctc.org.uk/viewtopic.php?f=45&t=92645&start=165#p852284
If you are not inclined to track all the way back through this thread, you might like to know that CJ’s first post quotes an earlier post by Si:
http://forum.ctc.org.uk/viewtopic.php?f=45&t=92645&start=150#p851717
which in turn quotes a post by JohnW:
http://forum.ctc.org.uk/viewtopic.php?f=45&t=92645&start=135#p851589
Plenty to think about here.
… what this is? Photographed at an altitude of about 1300m overlooking the Grand Canyon du Verdon, Provence, France in mid-September.
Madagascar – it’s not just about lemurs
Chris Beynon cycles through central and eastern Madagascar seeing day-to-day life in this poor country, as well as some of the famous wildlife.
An illustrated talk at Guildford Travel Club.
- Tuesday 6 January
- Doors open 7.30pm, talk 8-10pm.
- Onslow Village Hall
- £7 admission
For further information see Guildford Travel Club website or phone 01483 452399.
[The author on tour with Chris in 19xxx – on the way to Cape Wrath; yes, it’s the ‘P’ word!]
The Mid-week Wayfarers ride this week attracted 30-40 people to coffee at Poppy’s, Badshot Lea. From there we split in several directions, with 9 of us heading for lunch at The Squirrel, Hurtmore.
After lunch we again split into 3 groups, with Chris Jeggo deciding to ride with me via Compton, the climb past Watt’s Gallery and descending through Onslow Village. Chris then suggested that as we would practically be passing Harold & Kath Coleman’s house we should call in, which we did.
Although Harold hasn’t had any involvement with the West Surrey for a number of years now, our long standing members will remember his many contributions to the club’s activities in the past. To cite one example, our favourite award, The Wooden Crank, was made by Harold and is a twice life size replica of a Campagnolo Record crank.
As it turned out, Kath wasn’t in when we called, being out on some musical activity according to Harold. She had, however, arranged for a lady with a dog, to go out with Harold for a walk. So we went in and chatted with Harold for 10 -15 minutes until the lady and the dog arrived. Harold was pleased to see us and suggested we call again.