"Park and Ride" Saturday 24th October
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Aperitif
Meme bar
- Location
- ...I don't have much idea - really.
OK - we're all at work now, so there's loads of time to faff about with snaps! 
Here's a fine way to start the week, albeit with a lousy photo (not the subject matter - of course) of a piece of future history. Nearly a 'full house'.
The mistral memento
Here's a fine way to start the week, albeit with a lousy photo (not the subject matter - of course) of a piece of future history. Nearly a 'full house'.
The mistral memento
Only one typo, not bad for me, but I do apologise, if anyone (on the ride!) wants another copy pm me your contact details.
The electricity sub-station in Kingston is the only remains of a huge power station that was generating electricity up to 1980, now mostly luxury flats.
I could also have taken you past a couple of rusting but highly photogenic gasometers, also in Kingston.
Mike, I didn't know you had such an interest in dereliction & industrial heritage, could be the basis of an interesting ride .....?
The electricity sub-station in Kingston is the only remains of a huge power station that was generating electricity up to 1980, now mostly luxury flats.
I could also have taken you past a couple of rusting but highly photogenic gasometers, also in Kingston.
Mike, I didn't know you had such an interest in dereliction & industrial heritage, could be the basis of an interesting ride .....?
Great day out on the bike again - just goes to show how much attention you should pay to Metcheck. Brilliant route yet again from Aperitif, good call for a lunch venue and excellent company all round. Can't add much to the ride reports above - so Friday to look forward to now. Odds on getting that spoke fixed by then....slim.
Aperitif
Meme bar
- Location
- ...I don't have much idea - really.
Well, funny you should ask. It is a (very) little known fact that 'Orgamist' is the minature version of Origamist.
'Mini-Matt' - as he is sometimes known, used to be a hairdresser until his business folded. Since then, he's been happy to come along with Big Matt - snoozing in the saddlebag until let out to play.
Here he is, unable to resist fiddling with the waitresses' tresses, searching out those split ends...
Aperitif
Meme bar
- Location
- ...I don't have much idea - really.
Was the pub - noted for next time...(due acknowledgement to photographer)
and the eating irons were dispensed in a novel way -
Aperitif
Meme bar
- Location
- ...I don't have much idea - really.
Origamist said:Orgamist/Origamist typo! That's the poorest justification to post a picture of a pretty, blond haired waitress that I have come across in a long time...
Well done, - Davy would be proud
Did anyone see Elvis Presley that afternoon? I think I did...I'm being serious here.
Aperitif
Meme bar
- Location
- ...I don't have much idea - really.
ttcycle said:
No, there were twelve of us...at least!
mistral said:
My favourite building has to be Battersea Power Station, indeed I even have a really nice colour photograph of it on my living room wall.
Another suggestion for a future themed ride could be bridges:-
Tower
Humber
Forth
Erskine
Severn Crossing
It would be quite a ride and may take longer than a day...
Aperitif
Meme bar
- Location
- ...I don't have much idea - really.
Or,
Knightsbridge,
Stamford Bridge,
Uxbridge,
Cambridge!
Des has the nucleus of a 'Memorial Ride' - following two convos about Richard Burton on the last two rides...Karl Marx, Marc Bolan, there's a guy out in Laleham (excuse for trail down the river) who's name escapes me...um
and of course, Stanley Spencer, famous artist, who is buried in Cookham - just down the way from 'The Jolly Farmer' (second tenuous usage of the day )
Edit: Matthew Arnold - poet - buried in All Saints Churchyard. Also the hanging out zone of Lord Lucan. (That would be a trophy photo - a pic of him!)
We'll call the new thread: "Des O Late Days" Ride Winter is a neat time for this line of misery...
Knightsbridge,
Stamford Bridge,
Uxbridge,
Cambridge!
Des has the nucleus of a 'Memorial Ride' - following two convos about Richard Burton on the last two rides...Karl Marx, Marc Bolan, there's a guy out in Laleham (excuse for trail down the river) who's name escapes me...um
and of course, Stanley Spencer, famous artist, who is buried in Cookham - just down the way from 'The Jolly Farmer' (second tenuous usage of the day
)Edit: Matthew Arnold - poet - buried in All Saints Churchyard. Also the hanging out zone of Lord Lucan. (That would be a trophy photo - a pic of him!)
We'll call the new thread: "Des O Late Days" Ride Winter is a neat time for this line of misery...
