It was good to see Lawrence joining our evening ride today. We started out along Colston Road, but George had a pain in his back for some reason. When we got to the Steiner school and started the climb up the cycle path he really couldn’t cope, so John took him home.

The rest of us continued down to the riverside path at Staverton. Unfortunately we couldn’t cross the stones to the island because the river level was too high, so we went into the park and spent a little time on the equipment before heading home at a good speed. We took the usual route via Abham, then as we descended the hill past Caddaford a number of bats got perilously close to us in the semi darkness.

We got home for around 9.30 to find John and Will waiting with several packages of fish and chips from their shop in the town. They were shared out in the kitchen amongst a number of very grateful youngsters – thanks John for the nice surprise. There was time for a few games of Modern Warfare 3 before everyone left at 10.05.