The Fridays Tour de Normandie 2015

[Flying Dodo]

Yes, deffo.
Wedding anniversary is then: I'll get out of it somehow.

Hopefully not by getting divorced.

 

[StuAff]

Hopefully not by getting divorced.

Tandem. Perhaps.....

 

[mcshroom]

*Pencils in diary and goes to check clashes*

 

[redfalo]

This sounds very very tempting. Dates may be a problem and will require tough decisions. We usually go dingy sailing in the Netherlands on the Pentercostal weekend with some old friends. However, Mrs. Redfalo has already voiced a preference for spending the weekend on a bike rather than a boat. So, count us in please.

@ianmac62 : I know a nice Chateau in on the Cotentin Peninsula which is a perfect wedding location. Maybe your son want's to rethink? (And the weather will be better for sure...)

 

[AKA Bob]

This sounds very very tempting. Dates may be a problem and will require tough decisions. We usually go dingy sailing in the Netherlands on the Pentercostal weekend with some old friends. However, Mrs. Redfalo has already voiced a preference for spending the weekend on a bike rather than a boat. So, count us in please.

@ianmac62 : I know a nice Chateau in on the Cotentin Peninsula which is a perfect wedding location. Maybe your son want's to rethink? (And the weather will be better for sure...)

Does that mean I need to find a new room mate.......

 

[ianmac62]

I know a nice Chateau in on the Cotentin Peninsula which is a perfect wedding location. Maybe your son want's to rethink?

My son does have a romantic streak, which he didn't inherit from me. He proposed when they were walking in the gloaming on the shore of Loch Lomond. But I understand choice of a wedding venue is a bride's prerogative. The future Mrs Macsporran is from a hamlet outside a village outside a small town called Inverurie. So rural Anerdeenshire it is!

 

[Aperitif]

My son does have a romantic streak, which he didn't inherit from me. He proposed when they were walking in the gloaming on the shore of Loch Lomond. But I understand choice of a wedding venue is a bride's prerogative. The future Mrs Macsporran is from a hamlet outside a village outside a small town called Inverurie. So rural Anerdeenshire it is!

Inverurie. 'Thomas Tait of Inverurie'...is paper still made there, Ian? I used to have a lot of quality printed publicity from them....and the name has always stuck!

 

[ianmac62]

Inverurie. 'Thomas Tait of Inverurie'...is paper still made there, Ian? I used to have a lot of quality printed publicity from them....and the name has always stuck!

I don't know it personally but a quick google has shown that Thomas Tait built the mill in 1852, it passed out of the family's control in 1989, and closed (= asset-stripped) in 2009.

http://www.changingimages.co.uk/history.html

I think my son's future in-laws have been smallholders outside Kemnay. I have a brother-in-law who (although he grew up in The Broch) lived for a few years in Inverurie. I'll ask him what he remembers of the mill.

As a little boy on my summer holidays - I'm talking the 1950s - my grandfather always took me to fish for tiddlers in the River Don near where today's "old road" from Aberdeen to Inverness crosses the bridge in Inverurie.

 

[redfalo]

Does that mean I need to find a new room mate.......

Life's a bitch :-)

 

[AKA Bob]

Maybe @mmmmartin and I should think about comparing snoring notes now I have been stood up by @redfalo in favour of his wife.

 

[ianmac62]

Surely @mmmmartin doesn't snore?

 

[mmmmartin]

My snoring is prevented by a gum guard thingy. As @ianmac62 will discover in Spain next month.
I am riding the north sea coast route from the Hook of Holland to Esbjerg in Denmark. After four days I've hardly been on a road. It's been purpose built cycle tracks almost all the way, perfect tarmac and no cars.

 

[frank9755]

Sounds great!
Would like to come.

Edit - Clarifying for Adrian's benefit, I mean the tour sounds great, not Martin's gum guard thingy.

 

[StuAff]

Change of dates may be required....not only are tickets for those dates on sale, Brittany Ferries website gives the 1600 sailing on May 22 as full (when bicycle option selected). So different dates, perhaps the overnighter to Caen instead, or the origami option (cue wailing of teeth in St Reatham)....

 

[Tim Hall]

Change of dates may be required....not only are tickets for those dates on sale, Brittany Ferries website gives the 1600 sailing on May 22 as full (when bicycle option selected). So different dates, perhaps the overnighter to Caen instead, or the origami option (cue wailing of teeth in St Reatham)....

Isn't the SOP in such circumstances to ring dfds and ask for more places to be released?