the robster
17-04-2006, 03:52 PM
Good long ride yesterday by Mr Beattini, Stevie S, my dad and I - each of us doing somewhere in the range of 60-65 miles depending on how far from home the meeting/leaving points were!
Objective of the ride was to get in some decent training whilst checking out the courses for the Elite 25 and the ECCA Fest RR.
HOWEVER.........!
We are just turning into Terling early on in the ride, and a bird shoots out into the road. Now, our local birdspotter hero Stevie Saunders instinctively decides to warn his clubmates by screaming "TURKEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!".
This would have all been well and good.........
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....
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....had it not been a pheasant :shock: Naturally after that we saw practically every species in the animal kingdom along our route - everything from a jellyfish to a hippopotamus (translation for people who don't speak 'Stevie' - rabbits and squirrels).
Anyway, the ride continues well enough - with plenty of teasing being layered on our zoology expert - and we investigate the various courses. One attempt at a cafe stop yielded a 'Closed Sundays' sign, and resulted us in refilling our bottles at a tap which suspiciously had a hosepipe running from it into a very murky ditch - not quite the tea and cake we had been looking for :shock:
We ride on further and are approaching Mountnessing (I think) when we hear a lot of gunshots - shooting pheasants (NOTE: turkeys to you Stevie :P ) nearby by the sounds of it. Whilst myself and Mr Beattini carry on as normal - our very own David Attenborough rides up beside me - tears in his eyes, laughing so hard at his own joke (which at this point had not yet left his mouth) that he can barely get the words out - points two fingers at me and hysterically says "BANG BANG!" and continues to wet himself with laughter! :shock: Me and Mark looked at each other - patted Stevie consolingly on the back and pushed him to the front where he could tell jokes to himself away from us and prevent us from becoming even more terrified than we already were!
The ride ended with Stevie ironically going home to turkey for lunch (well so he claimed anyway - going by his other identifying skills it was more likely to be a jacket potato! We'll ask his mum tomorrow night!)
ooo - and we made a new discovery!!! I genuinely witnessed a moment when Stevie wasn't smiling!! It was a split second where he managed to swallow a bug or something - but for a brief moment I actually saw the face behind the teeth! I wonder if I'll be nominated for the Nobel Prize for such a ground-breaking discovery....?
Objective of the ride was to get in some decent training whilst checking out the courses for the Elite 25 and the ECCA Fest RR.
HOWEVER.........!
We are just turning into Terling early on in the ride, and a bird shoots out into the road. Now, our local birdspotter hero Stevie Saunders instinctively decides to warn his clubmates by screaming "TURKEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!".
This would have all been well and good.........
....
....
....
....had it not been a pheasant :shock: Naturally after that we saw practically every species in the animal kingdom along our route - everything from a jellyfish to a hippopotamus (translation for people who don't speak 'Stevie' - rabbits and squirrels).
Anyway, the ride continues well enough - with plenty of teasing being layered on our zoology expert - and we investigate the various courses. One attempt at a cafe stop yielded a 'Closed Sundays' sign, and resulted us in refilling our bottles at a tap which suspiciously had a hosepipe running from it into a very murky ditch - not quite the tea and cake we had been looking for :shock:
We ride on further and are approaching Mountnessing (I think) when we hear a lot of gunshots - shooting pheasants (NOTE: turkeys to you Stevie :P ) nearby by the sounds of it. Whilst myself and Mr Beattini carry on as normal - our very own David Attenborough rides up beside me - tears in his eyes, laughing so hard at his own joke (which at this point had not yet left his mouth) that he can barely get the words out - points two fingers at me and hysterically says "BANG BANG!" and continues to wet himself with laughter! :shock: Me and Mark looked at each other - patted Stevie consolingly on the back and pushed him to the front where he could tell jokes to himself away from us and prevent us from becoming even more terrified than we already were!
The ride ended with Stevie ironically going home to turkey for lunch (well so he claimed anyway - going by his other identifying skills it was more likely to be a jacket potato! We'll ask his mum tomorrow night!)
ooo - and we made a new discovery!!! I genuinely witnessed a moment when Stevie wasn't smiling!! It was a split second where he managed to swallow a bug or something - but for a brief moment I actually saw the face behind the teeth! I wonder if I'll be nominated for the Nobel Prize for such a ground-breaking discovery....?