B Group July 21st

Having forgotten that today was my birthday, I was reminded of this fact at elevenses when Harold Somers brought in a cake, baked by his wife - probably at the behest of my wife who is currently away visiting her brother and family in Switzerland. The Addlestone Day Centre specifically forbids consumption of food brought in from outside. Nevertheless the cake was shared between most of the Wayfarers present. Jeff, if you receive a letter of complaint from the day centre, please grovel obsequiously and cringingly on my behalf.

On a glorious day, fifteen of us left Addlestone by Green Lane and Bittams Lane, and crossed on the tarmac path through Botleys Park to Stonehill Road, and then by Gracious Pond Road, Red Lion Road and Windlesham Road to the Centre of Windlesham, then via Westwood Road and a complicated route through the outskirts of Sunningdale to the "Royal Oak" in Station Road, Sunningdale. The food here was excellent and very reasonably priced, but the service was on the slow side. After lunch, we went off-road on Kiln Lane and across the grass bridleway on the Coworth Park estate to a gravel road leading to the A30. We almost immediately turned right off the A30 to go through the Wentworth Estate. On emerging from Wentworth's East drive, we noted that the "Fox and Hounds", an occasional lunch stop on past rides, on the corner of Wellington Avenue and Crown Road is now closed. We proceeded via Thorpe by-pass into Chertsey and on through Shepperton to tea at the Walled Garden in Sunbury.

John Gould