Bereft. 
There's 1500 dots to watch between London and Edinburgh (and back) next week.
Right enough.
Or you could watch our Facebook feed from Semaine Federale in Mortagne au Perche 
. There will be Beer, Chips, line dancing and Tents. Oh, and galvanised steel showers.
With an opening speech by
M. le Maire? I might toddle over for that. <rant>Not for Lamouller's
dame de paille, though, or any of the other rats on the Comité Directeur. In 2016 our local CoDep organized Toutes à Strasbourg, a concentration for women from all over. Something like 6000 turned up, many of them riding significant distances to get here. The amount of work involved was vast. It went off well, but my main cycling chum, El Presidente, who had pushed the thing through and done most of the work, had a fall when he was piloting a bunch of participants out of Brussels and spent the whole time in hospital. In return, the Fédé sent someone down to shake political hands in Strasbourg, the covering article in the Fédé's mag totally ignored El Prez and the CoDep, but Lamouller sent an official letter of congratulation to the prez of Randonneurs de Strasbourg, whose club did nothing to help and who personally, in his professional role on the city council, worked against the project. The federal handshaker received the congrats of the Comité.
Oh, "totally ignored" isn't quite true. A ride across into Germany was planned with a section up through their cycle paths, but access was refused and plans had to be changed. The article did say that the organizers had failed to obtain permission.
The Fédé can stuff it. I'm still a member, but just for the insurance and (hopefully) the odd diagonale.
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