Cooling Church recce ride, Thursday night, Friday morning

[dellzeqq]

You wanted eerie, you've got eerie. Weather permitting, leaving Cutty Sark Gardens at quarter to one Friday morning, going to Rochester or Faversham or possibly even Whitstable, or maybe even Dover. Who can tell? This is a recce ride, with no tea stop en route, so bring refreshments. Flaming gas flares, Georgian architecture, two miles through spiders' webs and the eponymous dead kiddies. You know it makes sense....

 

[iLB]

dead kiddies?? :s

 

[Gerry Attrick]

dead kiddies?? :s

There, I always said Dell was weird

 

[iLB]

There, I always said Dell was weird

and yet still my mile munching tendencies mean i shall attend regardless

 

[rich p]

I don't understand the dead kiddies reference. Can you enlighten me?

 

[Tynan]

ain't you people got jobs?

 

[Aperitif]

I don't understand the dead kiddies reference. Can you enlighten me?

Maybe? Don't know - but happy to be informed. Can't set sail for this sortie either...work interfering.

 

[iLB]

ain't you people got jobs?

job? ahahaha

 

[Radius]

Can this wait til after exams Simon? Cos i'd love to do it but right now is not the best period. Any time after June 10th

 

[dellzeqq]

it's got to be this week - I'm off to Cyclenation on Saturday, so Thursday is the best bet for me. It's only a recce ride for the June 5th ride to Whitstable. User10571 and I have ridden the route (or variants) half a dozen times, but we're considering a couple of changes, one of which really does have to be checked out at night to see if the traffic levels are OK.

And as for the dead kiddies - Cooling church yard.....very Dickensian, darling.

 

[Aperitif]

Cooling Church Graveyard
These are the grave stones of 13 very young children who died in the late 18th century. These stones inspired Charles Dickens to write Great Expectations, especially the first chapter where Pip visits the gravestones of his family in a Kent church yard near to where some ship hulks were being used to keep prisoners who were about to be deported (now believed to be fictionally located in nearby Egypt Bay).


Photo credit to:
Hywel Williams

 

[yello]

Are/where they actually referred to as "dead kiddies"?

It just seems a little, um, tasteless/disrespectful in my grammar. No offence intended to anyone, just remarking how it comes across to me.

 

[dellzeqq]

There was a little subtext. Sentimentality is a two-edge sword. Dickens' sentimentality drove him to write masterpieces. That same sentimentality inspires the vindictive treatment of people suspected of paedophilia.

I've always found graveyards the perfect stopping place on cycle rides. Life lived at its very best shouldn't lose sight of the past. That two of the most moving graveyards are halfway up a couple of the toughest climbs on the LEJoG route is purely co-incidental.

 

[yello]

So the answer is 'not generally' then! It is your own terminology. I have no problems with it, and recognise the subtext, I was just interested. Things get lost in translation.

 

[Flying Dodo]

Life lived at its very best shouldn't lose sight of the past.

Nor the future (not mine, as I've got a wood lined up for me when I kick off this mortal coil).

I've only just spotted this and would have liked to come along, but I've got the car booked in first thing Friday, and then I've got to go for a test ride on a bike.

Have fun.