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  1. I went out for a lunchtime jaunt on Gino, as I had some club
    info to drop off at the house of another club member who
    lives on the route of my usual cycle jaunt round the lanes.
    What a lovely short jaunt it was. Crossing the A47, a very
    kind HGV driver slowed to allow me time to cycle across (wot
    a gent - may his vehicle never have a visit from the
    puncture fairy). The sun was shining, the breeze warm,
    rabbits in the hedgerows... car drivers very courteous on
    overtaking me, giving me loads of room. perhaps the good
    weather is allowing for a bit of all-round goodnaturedness.
    All very, very pleasant. It was one of those jaunts where I
    felt as if I was just zooming along. In reality, zooming
    along is not a term that can be said to apply to me, but one
    can fantasize ;-) The only slight mar to the ride was a
    "whomp, whomp, whomp" sound getting louder and louder when
    over the hedgerow appeared a helicopter gunship flying at
    low-level. It was very big ;-)

    Cheers, helen s

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  2. Quoted message said:

    The only slight mar to the ride was a "whomp, whomp,
    whomp" sound getting louder and louder when over the
    hedgerow appeared a helicopter gunship


    flying

    Quoted message said:

    at low-level. It was very big ;-)

    This, for me, would have been a highlight of the ride!

    Even the best rides become a little hazy after time but
    something out of the ordinary like that would lock it in the
    memory for good.

  3. Reply to dirtylitterboxofferingstospammers

    Quoted message said:

    What a lovely short jaunt it was.

    A day off today, and it's so nice here that I've been
    noticing *all* sorts of chores which require a bike ride
    around town. I should be doing my accounts; so obviously,
    taking that single newspaper to the recycling centre takes
    precedence. :-)

    The goodnaturedness hasn't got up here. I've been honked at
    twice, which is most unusual: once by someone who didn't
    like me taking the primary position through a single-lane
    railway bridge and getting in his way for three seconds,
    and once by someone who (I'm guessing) thought that I
    should barrel up to the roundabout and then stop and wait
    for the car on it to clear, rather than trundle gently down
    while it cleared and accelerate straight through, keeping
    up momentum.

    More and more I find myself mentally translating a car horn
    as "I'm too stupid to understand your manouevre".

    --
    Mark, UK. We hope to hear him swear, we love to hear him
    squeak, We like to see him biting fingers in his horny beak.

  4. Reply to myself

    Quoted message said:

    More and more I find myself mentally translating a car
    horn as "I'm too stupid to understand your manouevre".

    On second thoughts, in the interests of accuracy, perhaps
    there should be inserted: "...or too selfish to care."

    --
    Mark, UK. We hope to hear him swear, we love to hear him
    squeak, We like to see him biting fingers in his horny beak.

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