Breakfast at the Buckden Lion
The BSCC Weekend Away, Buckden, St. Neots, Huntingdonshire - 15th May 2010
It's time for the annual BSCC Bike Ride thrash - this year to the Buckden Lion hotel, and a 30 or 40 (depending upon which bit of the route was skived off or not) mile trip encompassing a circuit around Grafham Water and a stop-off at a couple of pubs en-route. The weather's good, and Nosher is hauling The Boy around for the Grafham Water sections in what is his first trip with the group, before handing him back to Isobel, who gets picked up and meets us later at the lunch pub. Whilst at lunch, there's much talk about the record for largest steak consumed at the premises - a monster 72oz slab of meat. On the way back from the weekend, Nosher, Isobel and The Boy stop off at the International Kite Festival being held on Rougham airfield for an interesting couple of hours' diversion.
next album: Nosher's Stag Weekend: Paintball at Emery Down, and Lymington, Hampshire - 22nd May 2010
previous album: A Trip to Norwich, and Ipswich Dereliction, Norfolk and Suffolk - 24th April 2010
Colin looks over
Fred steals toast from Bill and Carmen
Marc gets his belly out as bikes are unloaded
Bill's dropped something out of a window
Fred checks the air pressure on Alan's bike
Spammy, Jill and Colin
Fred hangs out with Jill and Colin
More bikes appear
The Boy is installed on Nosher's bike
A BSCC group photo
Paul waits for some mechanical fixing to occur
Colin and Alan sort out mechanical issue
We wait for the others to catch up
Marc holds Pippa's bike up
Isobel and the others catch up
We cycle around Graffham Water
There's a stop to read the info board
There's more map checking by a pylon
Another stop
Isobel gets The Boy, and heads off
At the top of a long drag, we pause for a break
Bill is sitting in 'bullshit corner'
Lunch in the beer garden
Fred and Marc share a moment
Fred sits on a ride-on lawnmower
Isobel watches Fred
Fred plays around with a lawn tractor
The lunch pub
Bill carries Fred around
Isobel with shades on
Everyone's got their hands up
Carmen hides under a table
Bill's checks his feet
Fred's loaded into the car
A pause so Nosher can pump up his flat tyre again
The splinter group at the Wheatsheaf, West Perry
Bill, Phil, Colin and Jill at dinner
Carmen has a smile
Dinner is served
The BSCC at dinner
Spammy checks a list
The Saga table
The late-night crowd
Marc reads a magazine
Flags fly at the Suffolk International Kite Festival
Random kites in the air
Fred and Isobel
Fred likes the stuff waving around in the wind
Multiple streamers
A load of windmills
Fred roams amongst the windmills
A Morris dancer waits for a toilet
A horse and cart
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Breakfast at the Buckden Lion
Breakfast at the Buckden Lion
Colin looks over
Fred steals toast from Bill and Carmen
Marc gets his belly out as bikes are unloaded
Bill's dropped something out of a window
Fred checks the air pressure on Alan's bike
Spammy, Jill and Colin
Fred hangs out with Jill and Colin
More bikes appear
The Boy is installed on Nosher's bike
A BSCC group photo
Paul waits for some mechanical fixing to occur
Colin and Alan sort out mechanical issue
We wait for the others to catch up
Marc holds Pippa's bike up
Isobel and the others catch up
We cycle around Graffham Water
There's a stop to read the info board
There's more map checking by a pylon
Another stop
Isobel gets The Boy, and heads off
At the top of a long drag, we pause for a break
Bill is sitting in 'bullshit corner'
Lunch in the beer garden
Fred and Marc share a moment
Fred sits on a ride-on lawnmower
Isobel watches Fred
Fred plays around with a lawn tractor
The lunch pub
Bill carries Fred around
Isobel with shades on
Everyone's got their hands up
Carmen hides under a table
Bill's checks his feet
Fred's loaded into the car
A pause so Nosher can pump up his flat tyre again
The splinter group at the Wheatsheaf, West Perry
Bill, Phil, Colin and Jill at dinner
Carmen has a smile
Dinner is served
The BSCC at dinner
Spammy checks a list
The Saga table
The late-night crowd
Marc reads a magazine
Flags fly at the Suffolk International Kite Festival
Random kites in the air
Fred and Isobel
Fred likes the stuff waving around in the wind
Multiple streamers
A load of windmills
Fred roams amongst the windmills
A Morris dancer waits for a toilet
A horse and cart