Allan, Gus, Ian, Johnny, Paul
We sat in Asda’a café in Ardrossan
waiting for the rain to go off, and we waited. By quarter past ten there were
signs of an improvement, so we set off on our familiar route. By the time we
reached the prom at South Beach, jackets were being removed as it was turning
warm.
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| Especially for Johnny! |
Our preferred path was still blocked
for works on the sea wall at Saltcoats so we took the diversion on to the main
road before heading towards Sandylands and rejoining the path, having taken the
footbridge over the railway. Some of us were down to shirt sleeves by now as it
was turning clammy and good progress was made to our piece stop between
Stevenston and Kilwinning. Unfortunately, it started to drizzle again so
jackets were put on and we got on our way without too much of a delay. Although
it drizzled until we got to Irvine Moor, it was bright overhead and remained
warm. It was a relief to get the jackets back off as we were getting wetter
from the inside than the outside. Wetherspoon’s was reached about three hours
and twenty minutes after having left Ardrossan and we partook of FRT and lunch
whilst setting the world of education to rights.
It has to be said that Gus and Ian’s
walk today was declared null and void as they took the escalators down to
Wetherspoon’s from the mall and hence breaking rule five of the rule book i.e.‘no artificial
aids’. They will have to re-do this walk on their own, at a time to be decided,
if they wish to be included in the official records.
This turned out to be a really good day
out, finished off by a very enjoyable and convivial lunch.
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