Meet in the main car park in the centre of Coniston, the one with the tourist info. office.

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Where’s Dave Marshall?

A popular children’s book ‘Where’s Wally’ challenge’s the reader to find Wally in a busy picture full of people. Now, last Thursday at 7:15pm amongst the crowd nobody could see Dave Marshall, however anyone trying to spot Dave would find this almost impossible as he was sat staring out of his car window 10 miles away in Gawthwaite. More text below the image!

His ‘mates’ Tim and Mark seemed to have arrived ok, and on time, however they double checked at the shop and on the internet, although Tim said that Dave has still to get to grips with his Technophobia, and won’t hear of it that he cannot connect to the internet on his Sinclair ZX Spectrum.

Tonight’s route took us through Coniston and out the back to join the path following the road to Ambleside, turning left up towards Tilbertwaite, at the top most people were shedding layers as the weather was really mild for the beginning of November. The first downhill section gave poor Mick Fellows flashbacks of when Nigel stiffed him back in the summer, it took us a while to convince Mick that Nigel was safely chefing away back at the pub, but we managed to coax him down in the end.

Big Kev was enjoying his new found freedom of no gears crunching away and the ability to change gear without subjecting his shifters to forces unknown from any normal thumb. Kev was in a buoyant mood due and decided to leave his normal ‘reign of terror’ at home. Lets hope his mood doesn’t subside when presented with the invoice, else his whipping boys are in for it!!

After Tilberthwaite it was deep into Hodge close and followed by some ‘secret-single-track’ supplied by Tim, this proved quite technical with much off it was off camber, this had Dave Sanks kicking off big style, cruising passed us halfway down commenting that we were all ‘F***in W***ers’.