Alan gets his belly out
The BSCC Cycling Weekend, The Swan Inn, Thaxted, Essex - 12th May 2012
It's the BSCC's annual weekend away. This time it's a return visit to Thaxted in Essex, last visited in 2008, for a slightly different route but with a stop at the same pub in Finchingfield for lunch. The weather turns out to be pretty ideal for cycling as we catch a weekend in-between unseasonally cold and wet weather. Despite that, it's a bit chilly at first for Fred who's sitting in his seat on the back of the bike again.
next album: A Few Hours at Hardwick Airfield, Norfolk - 20th May 2012
previous album: Touchtype Scopes Out a New Office, Southwark Bridge Road, Southwark, London - 8th May 2012
Apple mills around
The Boy Phil gets a measuring stick out
Fred gets measured
Alan gets his bike out
Fred grabs at a ruler
Fred and The Boy Phil do a spot of stick wrestling
Phil points with his ruler
Phil pokes his bike
The tandem has gone the wrong way, ½ a mile out
Carmen pauses and looks back
Another stop to check on who's where
A derelict building
Fred gets the beers in at a pub in Great Bardfield
Pub beer garden
The BSCC at Great Bardfield
Fred takes a photo of The Boy Phil's shades
Alan, Jill and Colin head off early
Carmen and Fred
Fred gets some upside-down action
Isobel, Fred and Carmen at the Finchingfield Fox
A 1956 coach rocks up with a load of Essex geezers
A coach called Katie
Lunch has occured
Lunch at the Fox Inn
The coach tour group mills around
Another of Fred's Lego creations
Bill sticks Fred's mittens on to his ears
The coach trundles off through Finchingfield
Apple and Pippa in his'n'hers matching threads
The Finchingfield duck pond
Spammy and Jill head off from the Fox
Alan and Colin cycle off
The hardcore group remains at the pub
Harry gets a cuddle
Isobel and Fred in a bus shelter
A cute Austin 7 trundles past
A very blingy red and yellow motorbike
Fred does an ice cream
The Boy Phil strokes a dog
A yellow field of oilseed rape
Alan and Jill are ready for dinner
Isobel, Jill and Paul
DH at the head of the table
Fred, Paul and Carmen
The lads do a quiz machine
Night-time bar
Quiz machine action
Isobel gets a photo of Harry and Fred
Harry and Fred in bed
A view of Newbiggen Street from the hotel window
Fred opens a hotel firedoor
It's breakfast time in the restaurant
Paul pours coffee as Fred grabs his Lego
Fred checks out his 'treasure chest'
The bar of the Thaxted Swan
Phil, Paul and DH eat breakfast
We're back in the car park
DH, Paul and The Boy Phil check something
Fred gets a swing around
The wonkiest shed in the world
The Thaxted Swan
We head off to the windmill
Fred goes to look at the horses
Bill feeds a horse
John Webb's Windmill has lost its sails
DH hangs out with a horse
Fred sits on a windmill's window
Graffiti from 1939-1947
Essex houses in a field of yellow
A vast swathe of yellow oilseed rape
Bill flings Fred around
Bill and Fred flake out on the grass
DH: Horse Whisperer
A Ruinair 737 comes in to land at Stansted
Horses do mutual grooming
Fred hides out in the undergrowth
Fred stumps off as Isobel goes back the other way
Isobel pushes the buggy around
Rusty iron railings
There's a nice Morgan outside the church
Watling Street in Thaxted
In Safron Waldena, there's a derelict petrol station
Derelict petrol pumps
F C Moore Limited's tiny cashier's hut
The Saffron Walden derelict petrol station
The old petrol station sign
The Moore's petrol station, Saffron Walden
A derelict petrol pump
Flourescent vacuum tubes in a broken petrol pump
A discarded petrol pump face plate, still showing gallons
The derelict garage workshops
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Alan gets his belly out
Alan gets his belly out
Apple mills around
The Boy Phil gets a measuring stick out
Fred gets measured
Alan gets his bike out
Fred grabs at a ruler
Fred and The Boy Phil do a spot of stick wrestling
Phil points with his ruler
Phil pokes his bike
The tandem has gone the wrong way, ½ a mile out
Carmen pauses and looks back
Another stop to check on who's where
A derelict building
Fred gets the beers in at a pub in Great Bardfield
Pub beer garden
The BSCC at Great Bardfield
Fred takes a photo of The Boy Phil's shades
Alan, Jill and Colin head off early
Carmen and Fred
Fred gets some upside-down action
Isobel, Fred and Carmen at the Finchingfield Fox
A 1956 coach rocks up with a load of Essex geezers
A coach called Katie
Lunch has occured
Lunch at the Fox Inn
The coach tour group mills around
Another of Fred's Lego creations
Bill sticks Fred's mittens on to his ears
The coach trundles off through Finchingfield
Apple and Pippa in his'n'hers matching threads
The Finchingfield duck pond
Spammy and Jill head off from the Fox
Alan and Colin cycle off
The hardcore group remains at the pub
Harry gets a cuddle
Isobel and Fred in a bus shelter
A cute Austin 7 trundles past
A very blingy red and yellow motorbike
Fred does an ice cream
The Boy Phil strokes a dog
A yellow field of oilseed rape
Alan and Jill are ready for dinner
Isobel, Jill and Paul
DH at the head of the table
Fred, Paul and Carmen
The lads do a quiz machine
Night-time bar
Quiz machine action
Isobel gets a photo of Harry and Fred
Harry and Fred in bed
A view of Newbiggen Street from the hotel window
Fred opens a hotel firedoor
It's breakfast time in the restaurant
Paul pours coffee as Fred grabs his Lego
Fred checks out his 'treasure chest'
The bar of the Thaxted Swan
Phil, Paul and DH eat breakfast
We're back in the car park
DH, Paul and The Boy Phil check something
Fred gets a swing around
The wonkiest shed in the world
The Thaxted Swan
We head off to the windmill
Fred goes to look at the horses
Bill feeds a horse
John Webb's Windmill has lost its sails
DH hangs out with a horse
Fred sits on a windmill's window
Graffiti from 1939-1947
Essex houses in a field of yellow
A vast swathe of yellow oilseed rape
Bill flings Fred around
Bill and Fred flake out on the grass
DH: Horse Whisperer
A Ruinair 737 comes in to land at Stansted
Horses do mutual grooming
Fred hides out in the undergrowth
Fred stumps off as Isobel goes back the other way
Isobel pushes the buggy around
Rusty iron railings
There's a nice Morgan outside the church
Watling Street in Thaxted
In Safron Waldena, there's a derelict petrol station
Derelict petrol pumps
F C Moore Limited's tiny cashier's hut
The Saffron Walden derelict petrol station
The old petrol station sign
The Moore's petrol station, Saffron Walden
A derelict petrol pump
Flourescent vacuum tubes in a broken petrol pump
A discarded petrol pump face plate, still showing gallons
The derelict garage workshops