Lovely ride for the first 2.6 miles tonight. Herons, chaffinches,
swans, great crested grebes, mallards... the skinny tyre almost silent
on the path as I swooped beneath low hanging willow branches, brushing
past nettles that stang my bare legs, picking my way along hard-baked
single track, deep in the concentration tunnel for a mile at a time, my
shoulders gradually relaxing as the worries of the day ebbed away.
Dragonflies and damsel flies sparkled their electric colours in the
evening sunlight. Anglers sat contentedly next to smokey fires that
kept the flies at bay. Swift swallows swooped low overhead, and
martens and swifts fed on the wing far above.
On the walk back, I got to see it all again, for much much longer.
If you own two Camelbacks, keep a puncture repair kit in each one, boys
and girls.
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Mikefule
I don't believe there's a conspiracy, because they want us to believe
there is
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