I have an apology to make.  I’ve been neglecting my blog and I’m sorry.

In my defence there are a couple of, in my opinion, good reasons for this.  I’m in the middle of my 6th redundancy process and am consequently running around trying to sort my life out.  Secondly, in case you haven’t noticed, the weather has been bloody awful so there haven’t been too many biking experiences to write about.

I recently celebrated my 50th birthday.  The plan was to take a few days off to visit friends and tour the West Country with my wife and brother.  The trip was long in the planning, routes were formulated, examined and revised.  Accomodation was researched and booked.  Packing checklists put together amd arrangements for meetings made.  The long range weather forecast was consulted and it looked like we were on for a chilly but reasonably bright trip.  Expectations were high.

Then the week before our departure the forecast started to deteriorate.   Eventually we arrived at the point where we had to make a decision or risk cancellation fees for the accomodation.  Given that there was a forecast 60% + chance of snow across the moors it seemed prudent to cancel. 

I was gutted.  And all of this the week before Easter !  What’s that all about. Just a few years ago I remember having a BBQ for my birthday and sitting on the patio drinking beer in the blazing sunshine.  What is happening to the weather.

Fortunately there was a plan B so a splendid time was had by all even if we did miss out on visiting friends.  Never mind, we will be down to see you soon DJ Legless…..assuming it doesn’t snow right through the summer of course.

If you have trips planned I hope you have better luck than we did this time around.  Enjoy.

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