ABC Towns and Villages
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but had plans for S and T both near home . Got to Swithland to realise I'd left my phone/camera at home 
.At least there near home and not 40 miles away
Great stuff , suspect your Z will be ahead of me as my nearest Z is up your way.
Supersuperleeds
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rugby bloke
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Definitely challenging weather on Saturday morning. I was already out of my comfort zone with the 40 mph gusts and that was before the hail started. A couple of big sideways moments when I thought I was heading to Northampton General. Having said that, when you were out of the wind and in the sun it was really very pleasant. Thanks to this thread I am out on my bike on days when I would have given it a miss. I've parked my V until I can have a jolly down to London, so just picked up my W today:
rugby bloke
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Better late than never, you will soon be planning routes to pick up multiple signs on a single ride !
Think my Z with be the longest gap ever since Y. Might plan a train / cycle ride for three weeks time if weather looks ok.
steverob
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After three weekends in a row where I've set out on the bike with the intention of bagging some more village signs and returned home empty each time (various reasons, from tiredness, to mechanical, to basic laziness to be honest), I finally have moved my count on and added N, O, P and Q to my list. As the last three on that list were also the ones that @CarlP did, I tried to make sure I photographed different signs to him, just to keep things fresh!
I do like the fact that despite the Pitchcott sign asking people to "Please drive carefully", someone has still managed to hit it with their car!
You will see that all of the sign photos were taken with a lovely blue sky in the background - this did not last! About ten miles after leaving Quainton, with an "R" village my next target, the sky got very dark and it started to rain, which then quickly progressed to hail! This was over fairly quickly as I only got the edge of the storm, but despite turning back towards home, unfortunately the clouds carried on following me and after another ten miles they caught up again and this time I caught it full on and had a proper hail storm which meant I had to stop cycling, as it was actually quite dangerous (low visibility on a busy road, not to mention the hail stinging my face). Once it had stopped I decided that I wasn't going to push it and would leave the "R" for another day - plus I'd already done 50 miles and didn't feel like adding on another (almost) 10 in wet clothes.
I do like the fact that despite the Pitchcott sign asking people to "Please drive carefully", someone has still managed to hit it with their car!
You will see that all of the sign photos were taken with a lovely blue sky in the background - this did not last! About ten miles after leaving Quainton, with an "R" village my next target, the sky got very dark and it started to rain, which then quickly progressed to hail! This was over fairly quickly as I only got the edge of the storm, but despite turning back towards home, unfortunately the clouds carried on following me and after another ten miles they caught up again and this time I caught it full on and had a proper hail storm which meant I had to stop cycling, as it was actually quite dangerous (low visibility on a busy road, not to mention the hail stinging my face). Once it had stopped I decided that I wasn't going to push it and would leave the "R" for another day - plus I'd already done 50 miles and didn't feel like adding on another (almost) 10 in wet clothes.
iandg
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L is for Lochfoot and Long Haul Trucker 
Heading back to Stornoway tomorrow, an M and an N not too far from town but O will have to wait until my next trip back to Dumfries - Orinsay is the only O I can think of on the island and there's no sign that I remember.
Heading back to Stornoway tomorrow, an M and an N not too far from town but O will have to wait until my next trip back to Dumfries - Orinsay is the only O I can think of on the island and there's no sign that I remember.
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