Our elevenses meets at Vineries Garden Centre usually attract large numbers, but not so today, although we did still manage a quorum! It may have been down to the weather - forecasts for the day did suggest more of the same bone-chilling, damp gloom that has characterised this winter, and conditions on the previous couple of days had been pretty revolting!
In fact, contrarily, the morning actually started with hazy sunshine - just visible through the steady rain - but the sun did nothing to relieve the icy chill! The weather failed to deter hard riders Diane, Andy, Simon, Carolyn and John from joining me (anything but a hard rider, and only there, reluctantly, because I was down to lead) for elevenses at a table carefully picked to draw maximum glove-drying potential from the overhead heaters!
Not Tennyson's 'many tower'd Camelot', just Woking town centre!
At length we left Carolyn and John to head home while the remaining four of us set off on a shambolic meander towards Woking, taking in a few of my favourite bits of route in the area, and trying a new permutation of approaching the Wisley A3 crossing.
Fortunately, we were spared any 'events' en route and, after lunch huddled round the fire at the Herbert Wells, we headed back to Walton via Horsell and Stonehill with my Garmin on auto-pilot! I thanked the others for their company then left them to thaw out at Walton Marina, while I hurried on home to carry out an urgent internet search for "treatments for frostbite"!
Author: David W
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