As we work in the garden we often here snippets of conversation as bike riders cycle past The Gables, taking advantage of the mostly flat Bedfordshire byways. Yesterday evening son told me of a different bike ride that cycled past him and his companion in the centre of London, The Naked Bike ride, organised to curb car use and celebrate body freedom. From the photos he sent me the vast majority of these exposed torsos belonged to men and not very pretty ones st that!

Apparently two old boys at the back of the peleton fell off and onlookers quickly tried to fix their bikes and get them moving again. Mad dogs and Englishmen. On the other hand gezunterheyt. But don’t try it down my lane thank you very much. Nigel and Mabel would not be impressed.

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