A Group April 20th

We lifted our eyes to the hills(well,one of them)whence cometh our aid,but this time it cameth not,so we stood around waiting for one of our band to blink first.After half an hour a leader who thought he had retired took up the reins and led the group over Woburn Hill, Hatch Hill,Green Lane,Lyne,Virginia Water,Gorse Hill,Hollow Lane,Englefield Green,Bishopsgate,The Copper Horse,Forest Gate,the Peanut Roundabout,Cranbourne,Winkfield Plain,Drift Road,New lodge,Fifield for lunch by 1251,which should have been 1222.This pub can be relied on to cope with an unannounced mob turning up,and we were well served as usual. We left at 1400 for Monkey Island and the footbridge to the Thames Pathway,which we followed to Eton.Over Eton Bridge to Windsor with all its tourist horrors but mercifully soon escaped through Datchet,Old Windsor,Runnymede,Egham to Staines,which the leader thought suitable for a tea stop,but not the rest of the anarchists,so we continued along the riverside to Chertsey Bridge and Shepperton where the more orderly faction did have tea,waving goodbye to the small group who were last seen pounding on to points east.A beautiful day which would have been better spent boating on the river with a few girls,a wind-up gramophone and a food hamper,but there you go
Vic.