ChrisKENT

Well done Laura & Chris!

Many thanks for that 👍👏👏🐶

Brilliant TERRY what marvellous memories you’ve related in years when I was but an infant & thanks to Chris for the visual tour & posting the images for us all to enjoy 😊 

I think that (A) is at the top of Hopwood Bank on the Redditch Road.

H was the Rock Tavern which was also known as the Portelet.

Her husband who was English & always serving behind the bar on my many, many visits often with Peter Carbutt, was unfortunately an Alcoholic!

He & the premises went into a nosedive of a decline! She left returning to the States with their child.

Happy & sad memories indeed🤔

The location is Caunsall as correctly identified by Moira but it’s definitely NOT the Anchor which still is just down the road!

They’re both on right hand side of the road going in the direction of Cookley.

The Anchor being just before Kinver Lane & the Rock/Portelet located Just after on the little rise! 

Dearest MICHELLE & CHRIS I cannot even start to imagine the sense of loss of such a “SPECIAL ONE”!

You’re very much in my thoughts and prayers ...............Chris K.

And I thort that it were my spelling and grama that’s bad

Anyway there’s always the Jinney Ring.

Is DYSLEXIA contagious or merely a prerequisite of membership?

It is with sincere sadness that I need to inform you of Trevor SHIPWAY’s passing.

He had been the Beacon’s President for 20 years and his funeral service is to take place at 13.15hrs on Thursday the 23rd January at Redditch Crematorium.

Leigh was admitted to the Alexandra Hospital in the early hours of yesterday morning with an acute viral infection!😩 (Ward 10 Bay D)

It became apparent from the outset that a number of us were not on for the full route!

We caught Tony up on Church Lane, Bradley Green who was on a solo non-stopper & turned left at the Pinvin traffic lights.

I believe that Chris Thompson was also going to do his own thing but with a stop at Pershore as he went left with the Mr Shelley group turning off left before the Pershore traffic-lights!

We that is Barry, Leigh, Mike, Gordon and myself  pressed on to Defford where good food, brilliant sunshine & tea together with the occasional sprinkling by a water-cannon was enjoyed on the patio.

An incident-free great day out in good company!

What more could one wish for on a September run in early Autumn!👍👍🚲🚲🙏🙏👏

Yes well I’m currently @ Leigh’s recovering from a difficult, enjoyable & testing 70.78mls ride

Some memorable roads & lanes that owing to advancing years, senility & possibly shrinking numbers (which on a more serious note is concerning) we rarely get to ride on particularly in such blissful conditions!

Thanks to John for his imagination & leadership + Moira, Barry, Alan & Chris for great company on another SARACEN memorable day out!

EXCELLENT VENUE.👍👍🙏👏👏👏👏

MOIRA legendary over such testing terrain with more pluck and BxxxS than many of the male gender however I can’t help but thinking that she ought to be doing more SERIOUS GARDENING!🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🐶🐶

Tardebigge @ 09•30 if anyone is interested for a shorter less arduous ride to De-Beers, Stourport or Bewdley subject to numbers, interest & weather

Very well done Moira & John for keeping the club’s metaphorical “end up”whilst us slackers languished in us pits till an ungodly hour bereft of enthusiasm & positivity.👏👏👏👏🚲🚲👍

Further to the above:- Also well done Ivor, Tony, Christine & Mr P 👏👏👏👏👏👏👍🚲🚲🐶🐶

Coming back Hill Furze Road after the top of Fladbury Hill and where it passes the Vale Golf & Country Club was bloody awful & virtually unrideable on the left hand side which they were doing!!!!!

I cannot remember ever getting so many chippings wedged under the fork-crown & rear brake-bridge + tar all around the circumference of both tyres 😩😩😩😡😡😡

Looking forward to seeing you all in the morning but I won’t be venturing as far as C.C. so may divert to an alternative venue en route!👏🙏🚲🚲

🐝Well done the three ‘B’s🐝🐝🐝

Well done the Seniors one & all, particularly Barry for having the male genitalia to:-

(1) Tell us about it!

AND

(2) To dabble with this “NEW FANGLE IT THINGIE”

Come on Seniors don’t be shy let’s here about your run please?🤔👏🙏🚲

Many thanks for Chris’s kindness & efforts in pushing Jack for which he was most grateful & doubted whether he would have got back without !🙏👏👏🚲👍🐶🐶

Great days outing with top-drawer company on roads that we don’t see enough of!

Looking forward to seeing you all in the morning with the young pretender👍🚲👏🙏😟🐶

Well it was like this for the Seniors & Moira in the absence of any ‘B’s:-

Ivor, Ken, Pete, Barry, Leigh, Moira & I + guest Doug Pinkerton headed off to Bewdley via Wychbold, Cutnall Green & Stourport where Ivor & Doug departed for a shorter outing. 

As they turned short Brian Taylor(82 this year) M. C.& A.C. joined our depleted number

The Riverside Cafe’ was busy as would be expected on such a glorious day! 

A pleasant return via Stourport, Hartlebury & Rushock topped off a splendid incident-free outing! 👌😃👏🙏🚲👍

Dear ALL :- 

Just in case any of you weren’t aware as I certainly wasn’t it’s come round again and is tomorrow afternoon-evening with the Elite Ladies @ 17.30hrs followed by the Men @ 19.00hrs!

I hope that they have better weather than today has brought!👏🙏🙏🚲😀

So JOHN I AM CONFUSED • COM !!!!

If indeed you did go again to WICKHAMFORD (where you went to a fortnight ago) I could understand why you lost at least 4 (Bev,Kev,Chris T. & Pete) along the way in that I understood that you were in fact going to the  Cobhouse Fishery near WICHENFORD not a cafe’ at WICKHAMFORD?

Please expedite?

Yes that’s fine for me particularly as I wouldn’t want to miss the 11.30 cut-off for the BIG BREAKFAST DEAL👏👏👏👏👏👏👍👍👍🚲