A brief visit to Challock and a vow to return It as one of those days. Ruth, John and Peter set out to ride to Challock - a quest that had failed twice before. With an early start from Bedrock, Ruth and Peter made a rendezvous with Millstone John at Clayville. From there they made a further expedition into the Essetford region and finally found a route via an underpass to Great Chart. From there the ride went swiftly through Hothfiled - the bogs were noted for ...

Lydd and Brookland Quarryville Hall was the hub for the Ragstones' expedition to a former island on Romney Marsh with its capital town reputely "one of the oldest villages in the country dating back almost 4000 years"*, namely: Lydd. Set on a former island, it has an enormous church and a number of old buildings. The Ragstones' Norman, John, Rosemary and Peter arrived in Lydd after a sunnyride across the Marsh, having enjoyed a tail wind. It may be ...

West Langdon 14th April 2010 To all who doubt the existence of an omniscient deity, I say: consider Fred. Fred is a Testudine; a shell-shielded, crepuscular diurnal reptile with both endo and exo skeletons. Many of his brethren are shy reclusive creatures, who shun coffee mornings and dinner parties, preferring the company of a good book or pottering in the garden, but not Fred. Fred is the Graham Norton of testudines, or tortoises to you and me. Of course ...

Where is Spring? A couple of months ago, the boffins - or should that be buffoons - at the Met Office told us Spring would be early this year. And we were heading for a BBQ summer they said - maybe not this year though. Jane (welcome newcomer), Judith, Juliette, Ruth, Peter and Millstone met up at Brabourneand set off hopefully towards the North Downs, but soon encountered storm damage. Tree down. Road blocked. Two men with chainsaws, two police...

Bedrock to Shadoxurst via Quarryville and returning via Claylands Hasted (1798) was unimpressed with Shadoxhurst, commenting: "This parish is but little frequented, being very obscurely situated in a low flat country, the whole of which is much covered with coppice woods, which makes it very dreary and unpleasant. The soil is a deep miry clay, and the roads are much the same and equally bad as those of Halden and the intermediate country." * The Rags...