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Entertaining ride around Essex lanes this morning. Caught a guy mid piss in the middle of nowhere: Not a discreet hedgerow job, but standing in the middle of the road facing me as I came towards him while his wife was sat in the passenger seat of his car. Gave him a loud cheery 'good morning' as I passed him and he jumped out of his skin. Think he was fully immersed in the task at hand to see me approaching.
Saw some mystery birds in a field, unfortunately I didn't bring a camera but grabbed a couple of snaps on my bad phone to try and identify them later. They look halfway between partridge and female peacocks. Too large and bushy looking to be partridge I think and they didn't have the crest that peacocks have. They had a bright red patch above their eyes that the camera didn't pick up. Any ornithologists about?
Bit later on I passed 3 guys, probably in their mid 40's to early 50's, on boardman hybrids. Stopped for coffee and a bacon roll about 20 minutes later and as I'm locking up, one of them pulls up beside me gasping for air. Apparently he was tired of how slow his mates were and thought he'd try and keep up with me and drop them. I remark on his decent effort (it was, neither him or his bike were built for speed and I was going a steady 40km/h according to strava) and chat for a bit while he waits for his friends to catch up.
Also passed through the most metal village name, it was disappointingly sedate:
All in all, glad I went out instead of sacking it off because it looked a bit wet and blowy out when I woke up.