Route : Bolly library – Towpath to Brookledge lane – Pott Shrigley RV with the Poynton Posse – Brickworks- Moorside lane – boundary wall (of Park Moor) climb – Dale top – GT – naughty 90degree descent- Cornfields Rd – Edge of Kettleshulme – Reform School – Mudhurst Lane – Butty footling on the North side of Lyme Park – traverse to the West Gate – Poynton sunset strip (Flute & Firkin)
Conditions : Overcast but no real rain (until the latesters were almost home) , mild (it was 12c on the way home but felt warmer)
Prologue :
Pete : “I really appreciate you putting out a route idea earlier today “
Dunc : “ I don’t like uncertainty”
Thank god that we have some Project Manager’s mentality amongst us !
Notes :
This week we ended up with a novel route plan and a smooth, seamless leadership transition from Dunc to Butty .
And …Four in the crew is a magic number , imho .
This week the random “pub topics of conversation “ started early ..well before we reached thewatering holes of Poynton :
- Reggie Perrin
- “ Warning : this TNR report reflects the values of the aged un-pc riders , whose moral compass was forged in the 1970s”
- Pirate Radio mast at Bowstones in years gone by
- Frank side bottom & Little Frank & Amoeba Frank
- The Bradshaw’s of Barnoldswick
We skirted the edge of Kettleshulme by dropping off the Gritstone Trail just short of Bowstones. I have been this way once or twice before…a cart track width path , quite fun but the late summer grass was deep and hid family loaf-sized rocks . A bit of a minefield.
At the end of this we hit tarmac and crossed into a narrow lane (Cornfields)
A traverse of a just about deserted Lyme Park …Butty kept suggesting a bit of gatuitous firtling e-play
Greasy pig (aka The Strawberry Pig) shuts at 8:30!
Sausage & chips & curry sauce all round – nothing else left
Flute & Firkin – for a few beers :
Paulaner weissbeer (the main contender imho) – Neighbourhood liquid state – a Pale Ale (so so) –
7 Bros something or other (again a bit so so)
Fed & Watered for About £24 a head – good value in my book
Then a bit of a TNR first – a mini AOE back in TJ’s Motor home quaffing Maker’s Mark !
Left Coppice lane 00:01 ..home by 00:35 – now we know what its like for Butty & TJ on all those late returns from Macc !