Out yesterday with the Tandem Club on a ride wot I organised, thanks to the inspiration and hints from My Young Lady.
It was National Mills weekend, so we visited 9 water and wind mills, one of which wasn't there anymore. Great fun in the sunshine, sadly Thee Pubbe I'd chosen for lunch decided to have a barbecue rather than provide the Food of Champions as I'd hoped. No matter. Long day, poxy puncture near the end, where I discovered the spare tube I'd put in my pannier was the wrong size.
76km plus a bit to and from the start. 73km/h as we whizzed down Scott's Hill.
Sorry to have missed this, but I had booked the Hop Garden Audax. Pictures are very interesting. I do like mills, my Great grandfather had a windmill at Petham, in Kent, that unfortunately, like a lot of mills, burnt down, and the house my father grew up in, and my grandmother lived until mid 90’s was adjacent to a mill pond, and derelict water mill, in Sturry , Kent. I have an excellent book of my fathers, ‘windmills and water mills of Kent’ whereby photos of mills from the late 1880’s were compared adajacent to later photos of 1930’s iirc (maybe 50’s, ) from a similar view point , very sad to see the decline.
Good job that P* didn’t happen at 73km/hr…
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