Adamanda's Absent Friends 2002

The weather was great, and though we went in the car (again), William Berry lent us his 748 so we could join Andy Cannon's splendid ride, covering 100 miles of wonderful roads.

Ixies
Mand & Mel	Mean Mike
Happy Orb & Jo	Happy Mand & serious John
Happy Ixies	Happy Ixies' bikes
Happy Ixies' bikes	Adam with his Johns
Orb proudly displays the "Arse of Ixion" Silver Medal winner	John had too much to drink and went to bed at 8ish, so Mand playfully gouges his eyes out while Alex tests to see if maybe Orb's bum shouldn't be demoted to Bronze medal
Katrina, Althea, John, Mand	Alex & Jane
marvin shows Alex what she's been missing all these years	Orb reprimands marvin
Katrina insists that it's my round	Katrina's (short-lived) happy time with a traffic car
Horsey draws another raffle ticket	Nadia wins a prize
Scenery
	Bolton Abbey
League of Gentlemen
A sketch in The League of Gentlemen is set in "Stump Hole Cavern", where the guide compares his cave to nearby "Red Scar Caverns". When we found "Stump Cross" and "White Scar" near Hardraw, within a few miles of each other, it was too much of a coincidence :-) (On the way home we went to Hadfield (in Derbyshire's High Peak) which is Royston Vasey in the programme, but while it was recognisable, it was mostly just a town - no local shops for local people :-) ). We're really pleased with the quality of pictures we got from our digital camera in Stump Cross.
So much for Red Scar's 100% safety record!
Stump Cross	Stump Cross
Misc
On the way home, we saw this on the Snake Pass