Once again for completeness
After turning back the clocks, I set off for Hampton Court; no contact with street furniture this time! Relative to the start, Windsor Farm Shop offers few options - Dave choose Shepperton Studios and the Causeway (with the usual frisson of excitement when passing under the M25). If squirrels count, there were over twenty of us for 11s, and sixteen were keen for more.
After Datchet came a surprise. We headed northeast for a M4 close-up before turning north onto NCN 61 (new to me) through Langley. Then the compass swung round to northwest as we rode on through George Green and along the west side of Stoke Poges (no lowing herd or weary ploughman today). Hedgerley was reached at the unusually early hour of 1220. For once The White Horse wasn't packed to the rafters so some even managed an inside seat though most had to settle for the tented garden.
We could have switched on automatic pilot for return bypassing Fulmer then heading down the long straight from Pinewood through Iver Heath to Colnbrook and Poyle. Not wanting to test lights on the first day of GMT, the majority headed home with the rump stopping for tea at Stanwell Moor. I was back before 1530; a modest 55 miles and one hill (where Janice unshipped, the rest not wanting dirty fingers rode on).
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