Today was thankfully a little cooler than recent days, but it was still hot at 24 degrees. We had planned a Dartmoor ride to Bonehill and everyone was up for it, so we took the old road to Ashburton and made good speed up Ausewell hill. When we got to Bonehill Ash entertained us by climbing what seemed to be a share rock face with his bare hands.

We followed the rough track to Natsworthy and then the lane down to Widecombe where we called in to the Wayside Café for refreshments. We chose it because there was a long queue at The Green café, but we ended up waiting just as long at the Wayside because of the slow waitress service. The food was OK though and the prices were reasonable so we didn’t complain.

We left Widecombe at around 1.40 and headed home at high speed via Leusdon. Michael at least was pleased to see that his favourite white ducks were back on the pond just below Leusdon. Spitchwick was stupidly busy today with police putting parking tickets on the many cars that had parked on the yellow lines – we had never seen parking officers there before, so the place must be getting more popular on hot summer days.

We finally returned home via Hembury Woods for around 3.10. Lawrence needed to get back but Will stayed for games until 3.45.