I said nothing as it a hallmark holiday, so she said "Why don't you go out for a few hours on the bike? In fact why don't you go see your Dad and stop the night..."
Just done 145 miles from deepest Surrey to Leicestershire without touching a motorway. Nice run over to Reading and then up over the Ridgeway, over to Oxford and Cotswold back roads and Fosse Way to Hinckley. Tremendous weather and light traffic.
I stopped near RAF Benson for a bite to eat. Sat on the kerb of the petrol station eating my sandwich I was attacked not once, but twice by a dive bombing Red Kite who was trying to steal my M&S sandwich. To say I shit my pants is an understatement, I knew they were a large bird of prey but when you have one 2" from your face and with it's talons grazing across your fingers it's quite alarming...
