Night ride to the seaside 28/29 April 2011

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martint235

Dog on a bike
Location
Welling
cripes! I've screwed up the dates. We'll be coming back to London on the Friday, not the Saturday. Sorry.

I never thought we were coming back on the Saturday. Does this just rule out Wittering then? Or is there something deeper I'm missing? A few posts back you did say that getting trains into London on the Friday would be difficult hence my comment about the ride back being more numerous...
 

srw

It's a bit more complicated than that...
Interesting to see that there is another opportunity for a republican ride next year - the Queen's diamond jubilee bank holiday on 5 June!

Don't get too excited - that's the following year.

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Next April/May is going to be good. It's a very late Easter, apparently, so we've got:

Good Friday - 22nd April
Easter Monday - 25th April
Wedding day - 29th April
May day - 2nd May
Late May - 30th May.

That's a four-day week, a three-day week and a four-day week in succession, all followed a few weeks later by another four-day week.
 

GrumpyGregry

Here for rides.
tis mine intent to follow him, if he'll let me ;-)

so long as I can avoid the telly. It's either this or France.
 
Oh good.
Is there a shortlist of destinations yet?

Mulling over whether or not to do the Isle of Wight Randonnee on the Sunday.... tempting... especially if the Republicans Ride lands us somewhere on the South Coast on the Friday morning...

Ride out from 08:00 until the bells ring, and then return - 'Catherine' is not the only one who will be keen to **** the royal family.
Sorry Rebecca - not realy helpful to the question you asked, you keen sort , you. Ask Stuaff - he likes riding round in circles...I like Blackgang Chine myself, and filling little bottles with coloured sand.
Besides - it always rains on the IOW.
 
Dungeness - for all the shingle minded folk out there...too mush to drinksh maybe... :smile: ('Adam's Amazing Adventures' passim) - (that's enough apostrophe's - Ed)

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dellzeqq

pre-talced and mighty
Location
SW2
I'm pretty sure it is (cuts off leg, looks at annual rings) twenty one years since I last went there. Is that right, Teef?
 
Writing on the wall:

Here's the full poem [with the bits Derek Jarman missed out in square brackets].

The Sunne Rising
by John Donne

Busie old foole, unruly Sunne,
Why dost thou thus,
Through windowes, and through curtaines call on us?
Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?
Sawcy pedantique wretch, goe chide
Late schoole boyes, and sowre prentices,
Goe tell Court-huntsmen, that the King will ride,
Call countrey ants to harvest offices;
Love, all alike, no season knowes, nor clyme,
Nor houres, dayes, moneths, which are the rags of time.

[Thy beames, so reverend, and strong
Why shouldst thou thinke?
I could eclipse and cloud them with a winke,
But that I would not lose her sight so long:
If her eyes have not blinded thine,
Looke, and to morrow late, tell mee,
Whether both the'India's of spice and Myne
Be where thou leftst them, or lie here with mee.
Aske for those Kings whom thou saw'st yesterday,
And thou shalt heare, All here in one bed lay.

She'is all States, and all Princes, I,
Nothing else is.
Princes doe but play us; compar'd to this,
All honor's mimique; All wealth alchimie.]
Thou sunne art halfe as happy'as wee,
In that the world's contracted thus;
Thine age askes ease, and since thy duties bee
To warme the world, that's done in warming us.
Shine here to us, and thou art every where;
This bed thy center is, these walls, thy spheare.
 
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