Yesterday evening went very well no thanks to me!
I got to the Spa Road roundabout early to find BFC and Johnny waiting for me. Thinking we had a full compliment of riders and bearing in mind Johnny needed to find a cash point I suggested we push off.
When we got to Tiptree we needed to stop as I'd had a text from tippers earlier saying he was now coming out and would meet us on the route I had posted, a route I had amended when I learned tippers wasn't coming out but I couldn't remember what the original route was. So as I was about to phone him when I noticed a text from Tomsk sent from the Spa Road roundabout - I'd forgotten we were meeting him there! Anyhow, I got both tippers and Tomsk on the phone and we all met up by the Factory Shop in Tiptree.
The full peloton departed Tiptree to Stanway via a circuitous route I had devised to take in a nice bit of COR I'd spotted on the map. Suffice to say we were 30 minutes late meeting The Straggler at the Live and Let Live. The pub was smashing with some friendly locals but after a pint we set off again in search of curry. tippers took us over some more lovely COR off the Lexden road after which we found curry.
BFC ordered something very hot indeed which seemed to have no effect on him, much to the awe of the restaurant staff. We also polished off a respectable amount of Cobra.
Then it was home, the A12 cyclepath struck again and we had to stop whilst I attended to Fred's rear tyre.
What with us riding around Charles and Daphne's garden on Wednesday evening I really must get my shit together!