Cecil Rhodes always regretted not saying that to live in the Yorkshire Dales is to have won first prize in the lottery of life - so I have on his behalf.
The road between Buckden and Hawes is allegedly the highest road in Yorkshire and today it had to be ridden in clag as part of a 33 miles (3000ft) pootle between Buckden - Hawes - Askrigg - Aysgarth and then back through Bishopdale to Buckden. Sleddale, Wesleydale - all very nice but Langstrothdale, where the road follows the Wharfe, is just sublime: I hope I am not too disappointed with the anticlimax when I get to heaven.
I understand that some Oriel College (Oxford) students want to remove the statue of Rhodes from high on their college wall. Nonsense of course but we send our brightest and best to Oxbridge, and don't trouble them with too much work in their 8 week terms, so they will get this sort of silliness out of their systems and then get on with running the country, the City, business - and educating the next generation - as they always have.
I wonder if Rhodes - rode a bike?
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