On the Road Again!

With the weather being either rain or raining and windy, December wasn't much of a month for riding for pleasure. Luckily I don't ride to commute any longer. So with the last few days of that month billed as "warmest on record" it started to look good. Wrong. The forecast dry weather for the 30th and 31st was bollocks. It was just as wet but not as cold. Drizzle at 10°C rather than the 4°C of the weeks before and all over Christmas. So as the forecast for the 1st is for sun it looked like we might have dry roads (some hope) I set off on a TomTom magical mystery tour across Kent to the Flying Horse in Smarden. It is the annual January 1st classic bike meet organised by the Men of Kent section of the Vintage Motor Cycle Club. The magical mystery tour took me across country to the south of Ashford. There was a setting I must have missed that chooses the shittiest muddy and often single track road. Eventually popping out on A28 near Bethesden and then off on some more mu...

I've not added any posts to this blog since 6th April 2021.  Many of the UK population had had their second jab by then and we were looking forward to being "safe" from the pandemic. Here we are in late November.  Many of us older people have had a THIRD jab and still there is no light at the end of the tunnel. People are still getting Covid-19. People are still dying. We can hope for a better 2022 but only a fool would bet any money on that being true.

When I last posted back in June 2020 we didn't think that we'd be here in March 2021 and still up to our eyeballs in the pandemic. Covid-19 simply won't go away. So maybe 2022 will be the first chance the vaccinated population will get to have a proper holiday, and maybe even a cruise.