Reigate - Wasp Green - Fanny's Farm Shop
A
recent discovery has been that Morrisons is more than a convenient café
for 11's. So on arrival I made a tour of inspection of the displays and
confirmed my astonishment at the huge variety of unusual
vegetables, kept fresh with a misty spray, and fruit as well as excellent fresh fish. Now my number one
supermarket.
Welcome
to Simon Telling - a member of the TFBs? After watching Geoffrey
lubricate his arteries with liberal quantities of saturated fats, a
sinister group of 13, reduced to a more dextrous 11 (farewell Ray and
Terry), set off to get GBS's circulation going and wend our way to an
alluringly nearby lunch-time venue. With daylight now so brief, the
cunning plan was to accumulate the miles before lunch. We therefore
followed the banks of the River Meander via Flanchford, Leigh, Parkgate,
Charlwood, Gatwick, Burstow, Smallfield and Outwood, to wash up at the
drawbridge of the Castle Inn Wasp Green. Wiser heads (Bob and Ian) had
taken a direct route and were already at table.
After
bread and ale, Geoffrey headed for the Great Wen, while the rest
remounted under darkening skies for a less convoluted route via S.
Nutfield and Merstham to tea at Fanny's Farm Shop. Some were so
impatient for Fanny's warm embrace that they sped ahead and sacrificed
the ascent of Rocky Lane. Seating was in short supply, though not mince
pies. We lingered awhile before lighting up and slipping into the gloom
for the warmth of home and hearth, with the mileometer barely touching
40.
Jeff
