D Day minus one • August 02, 2023
Suspense, spares and packing. Tomorrow at 0700 the three disturbed cavaliers embark on leg three, the final stage of the circumnavigation of the UK on the 50 Cubs. Check list – Daily blogs will follow, after traveling to the leg two finish point in Exeter tomorrow we unload the cubs and ride 75 miles to …
DAY EIGHT • June 28, 2022
The journey home After the late finish on the final day the team dined in the accommodation and had a few refreshments before retiring thoroughly exhausted. After breakfast at eight the boys departed on the cubs to do the seven mile ride to Enterprise van rental. This route was not programmed in Monkeynav and so …
DAY SEVEN • June 28, 2022
Envy, The Isle of Wet, Grandparents, Westward bound and journeys end. The previous evening saw the trio after a few well earned beers encamped in an Indian restaurant. Irritatingly despite pleas Monkey yet again karate chopped the poppadoms, Dee bided his time and pounced on Monkeys after eight post meal mint crushing it in its packet. …
DAY SIX • June 26, 2022
Dissatisfactions, directions and delight. Last night the trio decided Italian food was the order of the day and were recommended the Tricolour in Ramsgate. Off they set on foot, sadly no tables were available being a popular place on a Saturday night. Dee and monkey suggested the Indian we passed on the way, but Bowie …
DAY FIVE • June 25, 2022
SKA, SPITFIRES AND TEACUPS The trio walked down hill last night to a Thai restaurant for sustenance, on the way they past a working man’s club and heard the sounds of a band warming up. After dinner we trudged back up the mountain Bowie had taken us down arriving at the club which now looked …
DAY FOUR • June 25, 2022
MEMORY LOSS, BYWAYS, GAMES AND WACKY RACES Last night saw the team bedded in the Lord Kitchener in Lowestoft, a splendid military veterans themed pub run by a friend of Bob Monkeys brother. The hospitality and donations from the venue were superb. We were taken out by Bob and his extended family to a beachfront …
DAY THREE • June 23, 2022
FEDS, TRACTORS, ARTILLERY PIECES AND ANTS. The team were excellently fed and watered by the staff and customers of The Carpenters in Boston. Also both the landlady and many customers sponsored our mission for which were deeply grateful. During the evening Dee and Bowie enjoyed several orange gins Avec raised pinky’s, not to be outdone …
DAY TWO • June 22, 2022
LIGHTHOUSES, LADYBOY GIN, FLOWERS AND HAREY MOMENTS. Last night the team dined on Indian fare which most delicious, retiring early to the hotel after a hard day on the cubs. However the hotel bar beacons for a nightcap, here sexuality reared it’s ugly head, manly Monkey requested a Westerns Still Cider. Alas his ladyboy associates …
DAMP CASTLES, MOIST BRIDGES, HAIRDRESSING, TWITCHERS & STANDING OVATIONS. • June 21, 2022
This morning was rather moist, but our spirits were not dampened as we set off in earnest on leg two from Dickie & Trudy’s bungalow on Holy Island. Both Monkey and Dee were it must be said in a profound state of shock having told Bowie we were leaving at seven he was ready to go …
THE JOURNEY TO THE START • June 20, 2022
The winter months have seen Daisy, Buttercup and Pansy fully pampered with all three machines serviced, MOT’d and most importantly furnished with new rear suspension units also upgraded 14 tooth front sprockets. The latter item has increased the down hill top speed to a heady 40mph. At 1315 all met at Blood Bikes Cumbria’s Port …