All booked for Chimay

nope - £50.

 

Bloody useless half-year reporting. Grr.

Still don't know if I can get away on the Friday, so it might be the 7
a.m. train on Saturday again.

How long does it take from the tunnel, approx? Three hours?

 

Will that be the same 7am train as you took last year?

About that. It's 150 miles or so, iirc.

 

Hopefully not.

Ta.

 

What's going on in Chimay?

 

We're lynching a top poster.

 

Yay! A lynching!

Who's bringing the rope?

 

etiquette suggests that top posters should be burnt rather than
hanged, surely.

 

FFS, he can rise his own bike if he wants to come.

 

Good point. Green wood, fresh from the long-suffering hedge, or a bed
made of 100 single-use barbecues?

 

Neither. We give them over to the axe-wielding arsonist to use as he sees
fit.

 

Whatever's used for fuel, I hope he burns better than that fucking
chicken.

 

I wonder if it's still there...

 

the former, I think - liberally doused in petrol.

 

Decapitation by gas cylinder launched from a local chavmobile
barbecue.

 

Hmmm... smokey. Add a healthy splash of Castrol R for extra aroma.

 

Yeah I think you will find Burnt and myself will be carrying hardware.
<thinks>
Is he coming this year?

 

Under two then!

 

ISTR him saying he couldn't make it. I might be mixing up trips
though.

 

I know what pace you ride at, and I'm not doing it with you again.

Google Maps reckons 250km using the route I took with Dodger last year
via A26 to Cambrai and and N43 to Hirson, so 155 miles at a leisurely
pace. I did Chimay - Calais on the way back in under 2 hours though.