With a wet forecast and various excuses being posted in advance, I was pleased when Dean and Simon responded favourably to my intention to ride today. I was in good time and made my wife a second coffee before I left, only to realise I’d forgotten my water bottle. Hastily returning, I was now running late but not as late as Simon who messaged to say he’d meet us at our destination. Dean and Paul were waiting when I arrived […] Read More
On the way back from a circuit of Stithians lake yesterday, I took the opportunity to check out the new cafe at the Via Ferrata site on the Halvasso road, next to BF Adventure. The huge granite quarry has been converted into a challenging climbing course, with high wire bridges, abseiling descents and zip wires. The cafe ‘The Cornish Barista’ overlooks the quarry and has a good range of hot drinks, a full menu and a range of scrumptious looking […] Read More
OGIL ride 12.08.20 Despite ominous warnings of thunderstorms, Wednesday morning didn’t look too bad weatherwise after all. A number of fellow OGILs obviously agreed with this and turned out for the ride to Helston. This had been suggested the day before on the assumption that the day was going to be a wash-out and we needed somewhere inside to sit for our coffee and victuals. The fact that Ian also turned up proved our suspicions that it was not going […] Read More
Well, I’m not quite sure what happened last week but I managed to put the meeting out a week early. The advantage to that is that you get another meeting this week and it gives me a chance to add anything that I had forgotten last week. I forgot to mention the Polpear Cafe on the Lizard on our ‘getting it right list’ Liz went recently and said that they were welcomed as special guests. Liz says that they have […] Read More
It’s getting very busy in the coastal towns and on the beaches now that we are seeing a lot of visitors visiting the county so we decided to keep inland and visit for the first time since lockdown, for me at least, the Bluebell Nursery just outside of Praze-an-Beeble. It started off as a standard route but when we have Ian with us our route usually takes a little detour, generally up a lot of hills but that wasn’t the […] Read More
There was amazing club representation as we said an emotional farewell to Raymond. ‘One of the good guys’ is a phrase I have used and have heard this used often by others. There must have been 25 Wheelers, or more, lining the square in St.Keverne along with nearly 100 motorcycles gleaming in the sunshine, many of them with a photograph of Raymond attached to the fronts of the bikes. At 11.00 the funeral car passed by followed by Raymond’s […] Read More
The wonderful world wide web reveals the origins of the name Audax as thus; “French from Italian (apparently originally with reference to a ride from Rome to Naples first held in 1897), from Latin audax, audac- ‘bold, daring’ (see audacious).” Certainly anyone attempting to ride Simon’s permanent “Tour of Kernow” could be described as bold – or daring – or just a little bonkers! It’s 450km and the time limit is 30 hrs. There are three ferries to catch. And […] Read More
Another fine, sunny and almost windless day; everybody in short sleeves. After negotiating unprecedented levels of traffic, including a giant tractor, on the road up from Union Corner, there were eleven of us when we met at the Other Place. Suggestions of Poldhu had already been made on social media, and no-one demurred, so Poldhu it was. An uneventful ride to Gweek (apart from the traffic) followed, although we did have a bit of a wait there as Kath was […] Read More
21st June. The Summer Solstice and our grandsons sixth birthday. And the day that Raymond left us. We draw up outside our son’s house and I receive a call from Ian. How am I to bring these worlds together, grief and happiness. It’s a cruel world that has them rub shoulders on this day. As we stand on our son’s patio with an excited grandchild dressed as a US cop brandishing his handcuffs I notice that the plastic paddling pool […] Read More
Great news – we found Miss Molly’s Tea Room up and running today, almost like old times! They’re doing take away with an extensive menu, and all the hot drinks. We expected to sit outside but were invited in…Sonjia’s beans on toast were almost off the plate, there was so much, Jo rated her sausage bap as excellent, and my walnut cake was the best I’ve ever had there. The staff were so pleased to see us again, after nearly […] Read More