Good people of the forum

I find myself flattered and grateful for comments made about me in this thread.

I won't mention any particular individuals, but I can honestly say that all my personal contacts with forum users have been positive.

For the record, when I first posted on LFGSS I thought it might be a useful medium to find recruits for my club. This never really came to pass - various Hounslow members have posted on here, but we've only really acquired one new member and I think he would probably have come to us in any case.

However I believe I've learnt a lot from a younger generation on the forum, and some of that I may have been able to pass on to the many old fogies who inhabit my world. By the same token, I hope that I have managed to bring some small fragments of wisdom back from those elders to inform people here.

One thing that strikes me about the posts on this thread is that the good memories almost all come from face to face meetings in the real world, rather than on line chatter. This is probably inevitable, but perhaps it tells us something useful - that the olden days clubroom meeting and club run can't be replicated digitally.

With this in mind I propose that we organise a meeting for all those mentioned in this thread. With the winter almost upon us, a pub in central London might seem an obvious choice for this, but with the Covid infection rate rising so rapidly maybe that's not such a great idea. I suggest a meeting next Spring with a ride to a country pub. The first thing that comes to my mind are venues a little to the North of London, meeting perhaps at Hertford and going North into the lanes. So we might call this proposal:

An Easy Day in May

Let's hear if you think this is a good or a bad idea.