Words and pics by Pete
Crew: 3sheds, TJ, Butty, PTD, Slim, Mr I
In da pub : Dunc, El Pres, Stunt
At the start: Langley Joe & El Pres
Route: Buxton New Road – – Tea Rooms – Shining Tor – Cheeky Route – Lamaload -Smith Lane – Jumper Lane – Oakenbank – Poachers
Stats: Second trip to the Poachers in 2014
Weather : Mild, slightly damp on the descent from the Tor but the Cheshire Plain was Shining 🙂
Notes:
A presedential blesssing at our BL starting point ….but his excellency stayed at home for football bonding with his progeny. Similarly Langley joe just stopped by to say hello.
We trooped up to the Tea Rooms in a stretched out peleton, trying to avoid being killed by nutters on motorbikes. The sky was ominously dark, but we reached the turning to ST before it started to rain.
TJ was in anti-stealth mode.
Butty’s hub was complaining by the time we got to the Tor. Fortunately it lasted the evening..and got him home so that he could discover the full extent of the damage in the comfort of his own home.
The descent to Hooleyhay never fails to deliver grins all round.
A desire to secure nosh lead to a tarmac route from here to Oakenbank and the Poachers…where we were greeted by Stunt ..and later joined by Dunc and El Pres.
We fled the football to the sanctity of the Beer garden, in the shadow of Hobbiton aka the Shire. All was good until we returned inside …the evil presence of the WNB was our own equivalent of the eye of Sauron.
Butty led the ancient formation of the AOE 🙂