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Last one of the year as well
Dissapointing, have to make do with Ascot on tele instead |
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I make that 6 fixtures out of 16 abandoned this year.
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Cheers Jamie
Missed that one |
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Cheers Jamie
Missed that one |
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What's going on in the West Country, weather-wise? Ireland is cancelling fixtures because they've had no rain! Is there some new weather pattern that skirts round the Emerald Isle bringing the aftermath of American hurricanes?
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Even more confusing, Ramruma
Newton Abbot waterlogged, Wincanton today, about 80 miles away, going GOOD |
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Newton Abbot is on a floodplain (of the River Lemon, that stream by the 2 mile start - most of the river is underneath Newton town centre, but it still has to overflow somewhere).
Wincanton is at the top of a hill (I know this, because I cycled up it from Cary station today). In addition, if you try ploughing up there, you just turn up loads of hardcore. So it drains well. |
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OK screaming, makes sense
BTW, why didn't you get off at the next station on the line, Bruton? Much closer to the track |
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Ah, but the train from Taunton doesn't stop at Bruton! It stops at Cary, then Westbury.
Besides, I love the ride from Cary, along the back lanes through Hadspen. I get to pass the house where I lived through the 90s (or punting's glory years, as I call them). I cycled back through the hedgerows in the setting sun this evening, and I lost count of all the ghosts I passed on the way: the dogs who walked there, the horses who grazed, the propunters who kipped in the spare room ... |