Gospel Pass Friday 27 September

[Doseone]

I think you can pretty much count me out, sorry. I just can't see me being able to take the time off.

I hope you all have a great ride through what will be some stunning scenery.

Are you taking in The Bulls Head in Craswall?

 

[theclaud]

I think you can pretty much count me out, sorry. I just can't see me being able to take the time off.

I hope you all have a great ride through what will be some stunning scenery.

Are you taking in The Bulls Head in Craswall?

Wasn't planning to, only because it's a load more climbing back out of Hay, including a steep one. I'm intending to use the Golden Valley for some flatter miles after lunch. Could be one for a shorter ride though.

 

[Gordon P]

Sounds an absolutely wonderful ride. Almost but not quite worth returning from Spain... Let me know when the repeat is scheduled.

 

[anothersam]

Great pitch. Christ I'm tempted. Probably can't make it though. I'm missing all the good rides this year.

And for a bonus point, what's the connection between the Gospel Pass and the most famous climb on London to Brighton FNRttC?

Ditchling was home to Eric Gill, he of Gill Sans, a typeface I used often in my typesetting days. Gill Sans was based on the sans serif lettering originally designed for the London Underground. One of the poems in Transport for London's poem for the day archive is Seamus Heaney's The Railway Children. The film of the same name starred Jenny Agutter, who grew up to become balloon boy's love interest in An American Werewolf in London. The Slaughtered Lamb where the backpackers interrupt that game of darts with dire consequences was actually located in Llanthony, near to Hay-on-Wye and The Gospel Pass.

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That's got to be the connection.

 

[mmmmartin]

Eric gill used to live in the llanthony valley. I used to go camping there, at wyndham morgan's field, and have rented a small flat in the building where gill once lived, i think.

 

[theclaud]

That's got to be the connection.

Even if it weren't, I'd claim that it was...

 

[User10571]

Eric Gill went to my college.
Before I did.......

EDIT: Kinda wishin' I was on this one......
Circumstances dictate otherwise

 

[rich p]

I'm not a certainty yet but hoping I can wangle things.
Is there any provision for a post ride píss up or are the locals all going home?
Those two sentences aren't necessarily linked.

 

[StuAff]

Bookshops....Hay on Wye on the agenda then. Remember it well from my previous trip to the area. Going through Talgarth?

 

[robjh]

A pint and a packet of ready-salted, while we discuss base and superstructure in Marxist cultural theory. Or ghosts.

Blimey, the conversation promises to be a notch up on the last two rides. You can count me in, just for that. I expect I'll start at Newport rather than Aber, but will sort out details and let you know.

 

[theclaud]

I'm not a certainty yet but hoping I can wangle things.
Is there any provision for a post ride píss up or are the locals all going home?
Those two sentences aren't necessarily linked.

I've not worked out the best boozer for the finish yet, but leave it with me...

 

[theclaud]

Bookshops....Hay on Wye on the agenda then. Remember it well from my previous trip to the area. Going through Talgarth?

Nope.

 

[lukesdad]

Blimey, the conversation promises to be a notch up on the last two rides. You can count me in, just for that. I expect I'll start at Newport rather than Aber, but will sort out details and let you know.

Can't remember who we were slagging off in Newbridge, oh.....wait a minute....

 

[dellzeqq]

will Mr. and Mrs. Clark be at home?

 

[theclaud]

Mr Clark is in New York!