A little gentle pottering around as my Achilles tendon is still not fully recovered. The strength is back but the flexibility is not. Riding with a CAM boot on
is possible as long as there is something on the other foot to even things up. Although the physiotherapist does not recommend it, he does accept it, and I've been riding with the boot on for a few weeks now without mishap or any setback to the recovery—but no more than a couple of miles or fifteen minutes at a time. Anyway, the weather was beautiful this weekend: 22°C, sunny, with a light breeze. And it felt good to be riding, even if it was just a couple of very short rides.
The site of the old Abbot's Mill:
One hundred years ago, the site looked like this—Abbot's Mill is the large, pale, wooden-framed building :
And ninety years ago, on October 17th 1933, it burned down, never to be rebuilt: