OK - nice snaps, Dave...what a lovely day! After the usual meet, we wended our way to the cable-car. As I mentioned before "fantastic"
It was a disciplined day, with the group acknowledging the signeage. (TallMart obviously has a doctor's chitty for signeage exemption...)
...and then we hit the high life of the Emirates air ferry! Wow!
TallMart had a nemesis, which he conquered, with flying colours. (Pinkish...)
And then Commander User10571 took us onwards to Woolwich and the café...luckily not open. We mooched and buggered about for a while basically...here's a big shot with a small tank in the background:
and then we had to make tracks...
before setting off for the ferry, to queue and wait...and wait.
Another gratuitous shot of the descent from Apollo XXX - the ferry has been done to death nearly.
And then it was Fat Boy's Diner - another 'Trust User10571' moment. His choice of pastrami on rye was whizz-bang, as it was delivered with panache (no, not shandy, silly
) and looked substantial. We all ate well in the trendy eaterie...there was plenty to absorb - everywhere.
We ate - we chatted our way to the perfect depart. At the roundabout the South contingent went err...their way and the commoners went our way. Dave realised his mistake and joined us, just in time to lead into Canary Wharf for the biggest fork lightning display for a while!
We got a bit wet but it was ok...Dave's pic of the Borisbikeman with the fixie on his shoulder is testament to that.
And so. Dave and I released the sun once again, by pothole evasion towards LookMumNoHands! My son, ever elusive, had decided that he was going to take root inside...there just happened to be Dani King and Lizzie Armistead being interviewed. Did you all know that the Channel 4 TV programme 'The Cycle Show' was broadcast from LMNH every week? Not me - I aint got a telly!
Anyway. Rob, my son was accompanied by his old friend, Mills. Andrew Mills was, until recently, the understudy to Ben Ainslie, prior to the Olympic games etc and so he is "quite fit". There followed a Rollapauluza session between
Dani King and 'a bloke', and then
Dani King's boyfriend versus 'our' Andrew - who, apart from not keeping in shape, had been subjected to 'Slagattack' for two hours!
(Don't worry - it's nothing serious...just a Friday Night Ride problem). As an aside, on our way to LMNH, I asked Dave if he noticed the two people who looked like cats..."No" came the reply. After a few beers, suddenly the said people appeared in front of Dave, at the bus stop!
Eventually, a bit of chit-chat won the day, and there is nothing to rival the following piece of text one feels;
"Topcat with two pussies"
And so - Dani King got 'beaten' by the guy and Andrew was next up against Dani King's boyfriend. Here's what happened.
What a wonderful day - one of those perfect coincidences between nice people, good atmosphere and human spirit.
. I have however promised to go back with her and have another go.
