Ash had revision to do during the afternoon so we arranged a fairly short ride that explored many of the tracks in Hembury Woods. This started with a brisk ride to the top of Hembury Hill, took us around the fort moat, along a new path, down the slalom and then onto another new path. It was all good fun.

We got home for around 11.55 as agreed and had a one hour social of games and trampoline.

With heavy rain forecast all evening we started the evening with computer games and then drove to Ashmoor leisure centre for some very enjoyable badminton games on three courts.

Rain stopped play again today, so we organised a games social for the morning at Crofters until around 12.15 when Ash needed to get on with revision.

Michael was away buying a car today so unfortunately the ride had to be cancelled.

The forecast was for showers all morning, so when Lawrence and Alastair arrived Lawrence had already decided that he would like to do squash again today. Alastair quickly decided he would like to do that as well, as he had never played squash before, so we drove to Ivybridge in Michael’s new Volvo C30 which the boys liked a lot.

First Michael played Lawrence and Ash played Alastair, then Michael played Alastair and Ash played Lawrence. Finally Ash and Michael played each other for the last five minutes. Our games lasted from 11.20 to 12.10 after which we played games at Crofters until 2.15.

For some reason Lawrence arrived with the intention of playing and grand game of Lord of the Rings this evening, and since there was nobody else to out-vote him that is what we did. Ash had to pop out for a while at 7.30 but he returned for 8.50 to finish off the evening with us.

This was a disappointing morning because Alastair and Michael ended up spending most of the morning waiting for Ash to arrive as he said he was coming but would be late. By the time he finally arrived we had spent the whole morning playing games so there was no time for a ride.

Either Ash will have to become more reliable in future or we will simply have to leave without him if does not arrive on time.

Michael and Ash were away this evening at the London Film and Comic Con so the ride was cancelled.

Michael and Ash were away this evening at the London Film and Comic Con so the ride was cancelled.

There was no enthusiasm for a cycle ride this evening so we did a badminton session at Ashmoor from 8pm until 9pm with games at Crofters either side. It turned out to be a very enjoyable evening for all concerned.