Leicesestershire and Alton Towers Revisited – Part II

This is the Leicesestireshire part, obviously, and simply seeks to fill in some of the gaps in Simon’s version of events of last Saturday evening. Having confirmed my doubts as to the likelihood of the owners of “The Yews” naming their premises after some sheep, its location at Great Glen was established. Or, as we subsequently discovered on our journeys round the Leicesestershire countryside (some, as Simon rightly relates, being duplicated, to the extent that we began to recognise cows as old friends), it wasn’t. In fact, the man with no legs (incidentally, driving an elaborate go-kart thingy with hand-operated pedals) was just one of three near misses, the other two being a man on a bicycle with all his legs (only narrowly managing to retain them, no thanks to Simon) and a car, all of which, whilst on the face of it using the highway in a perfectly legal manner, thoughtlessly arrived at a particular point a fraction of a second before they were about to negotiate a blind corner, but a fraction of a second after we had completed the manoeuvre and arrived at the same point. Thank heaven for the open fields abutting on the roadway. It’s all right, we didn’t frighten the cows, they knew us. At one of several places where Simon decided that we may have been travelling in the wrong direction, he endeavoured to execute a rapid three-point turn, which I thought should have been more correctly called a two-point-one-kerb-collision-point turn. It was a fairly high and robust kerb, I have to say, and I had seen it coming. Kouros, in the back seat, however, had not, and was entirely unprepared for the not insignificant jolt. Only the layers of sandwich cases, food bags and chocolate wrappers saved him from being severely injured. Fortunately, the front wheel didn’t break. However, sheer perseverance and clever guesswork paid off and we found The Yews. Then Stu and Sarah arrived. I won’t say we had a lovely time, because Simon’s already said it, but we had a lovely time! Oh, and Part III will have links to Alton Park piccies.