John and Will arrived early at 10am, but when Jerry, Callum F and Callum O'B arrived at 10.15 CoB had a puncture. He had remembered to fix the puncture he got last week but had got Callum F to fix it for him. Callum had changed the tube, but it still had a puncture. A shower arrived anyway so everyone went in to play computer games while Michael fixed the puncture. It turned out Callum F had forgotten to check for thorns: he had left a huge thorn in the tyre which had punctured the new tube in two places.

We finally got away at 10.55 just as another shower came along, but this was the last and it was sunny and dry as we headed along the Buckfast road from Dart Bridge. We followed the route originally planned, to Michelcombe for a photo and then on up the hill to Holne for a café stop. Will did really well, and both he and John wanted to book for the Easter tour which was very encouraging.

When CoB had finished his delicious carrot and coriander soup we returned home via Hembury, giving the track a miss today in view of the recent rain. Will was going out for a family meal today but he desperately wanted to come up for games, so his father agreed he could come up for twenty minutes or so. We got back at 1.15 and he managed to play half an hour of Lord of the Rings before John collected him at 1.45. The rest left at 3.35.