PaulSB
Squire
- Location
- Chorley, Lancashire
Good mooring all........'tis biblical here, has been all night and forecast is 90% rain till Sunday 3.00pm when it drops to 50%!!!!! I have been ferociously busy this week so apologies for being AWOL. Hope you're all well and I've missed nothing important like which colour bins went out on which day?
We had a most excellent ride yesterday, managing to dodge the rain except for a 20 minute deluge. Important decisions were taken. Cafes! Yesterday myself and buddy paid £4 EACH for a chocolate chip cookie and a Rocky Road. On Monday I was charged £1 for an extra slice of toast with my beans. Since the pandemic we have understood and accepted the increases but have decided A) we cannot afford this any longer, it's hitting +/-£25 a week and B) the cafes are frankly taking the piss. We are largely withdrawing our custom. Mondays will be either a coffee only in a cafe and eat snack from home or coffee and cake from a bakery, Wednesday or Friday will be a cafe with the other day being the same as Monday. We don't like it but this is a problem across much hospitality.
It's our club open TT10 today and our club championship, I help organise along with another guy. Calls and messages have been pouring in asking if we're going ahead? I'm setting off early to do the course inspection. If it goes ahead I have two hours in the rain putting up signage, 70 minutes stood in the rain as Finish Timekeeper Assistant and an hour taking the signs down again!!!! Geez, don't you love cycling????????????????????
We had a most excellent ride yesterday, managing to dodge the rain except for a 20 minute deluge. Important decisions were taken. Cafes! Yesterday myself and buddy paid £4 EACH for a chocolate chip cookie and a Rocky Road. On Monday I was charged £1 for an extra slice of toast with my beans. Since the pandemic we have understood and accepted the increases but have decided A) we cannot afford this any longer, it's hitting +/-£25 a week and B) the cafes are frankly taking the piss. We are largely withdrawing our custom. Mondays will be either a coffee only in a cafe and eat snack from home or coffee and cake from a bakery, Wednesday or Friday will be a cafe with the other day being the same as Monday. We don't like it but this is a problem across much hospitality.
It's our club open TT10 today and our club championship, I help organise along with another guy. Calls and messages have been pouring in asking if we're going ahead? I'm setting off early to do the course inspection. If it goes ahead I have two hours in the rain putting up signage, 70 minutes stood in the rain as Finish Timekeeper Assistant and an hour taking the signs down again!!!! Geez, don't you love cycling????????????????????
has stopped play on both 
