Hersham - Leatherhead - Box Hill
One imponderable that a leader must be prepared for is rain. On the morning of the AGM, rain duly came with no escape, so it was a watery splash to Hersham. After half a mug of scalding coffee, I joined the assembly in the Village Hall for a smartly conducted AGM, dispatched within barely more than an hour, with no more than a minor spasm of identity crisis. Had members kept quiet, it would have been less.
More time was taken to assemble the skittish riders than to conduct the meeting, but we made a start, heading East with a chuff wind via West End, the Portsmouth Road, Fairmile Lane to Stoke d'Abernon, then a smart scoot along Cobham Road and Woodlands Lane to Leatherhead and our ever-welcoming watering hole of Wetherspoons. Here we found two reprobate and barely sheep-faced truants (they know who they are) who had ducked the AGM for other illicit and unspecified activities. The Head will not be content and a penalty will be exacted. Their book is marked.
After a leisurely lunch to satisfy our modest appetites, if not to compete with La Gavroche, an amicable consensus agreed that we needed a modicum of climbing to earn some tea and cake. We settled on Destination Bike atop Box Hill, pulled back the joy-stick and thrust up past Headley Court, to approach Box Hill from the rear. Destination Bike was formerly Dauphin Sport. It now sports a tea and cake workshop, which serviced us most admirably. As a side-line it also has some pretty good bikes and accessories.
Our ways then parted, all downhill, as we chased the sinking sun.
Jeff
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