The dry forecast turned out to be incorrect this evening, so we arranged a shorter ride around Hembury. Once the few who had temporarily abandoned us at The Orchard had met up with us again at Buckfast and Callum O’B had been persuaded that Hembury wasn’t such a bad destination after all we rode along the lower Hembury track and then branched up to the right halfway along. This would normally have brought us out halfway up the main hill, but we struck out upwards partway along and came out right on the top corner – a bit scratched maybe, but nobody was missing!

We amused ourselves in the fort area by climbing trees and then rode down the Slalom track through the woods on the way home. There was the usual trampolining and computer games fun when we returned at 9.15.