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My elderly mother used to enjoy walking her dog, Bouncer, along that path. It was one of the few pleasures left to her after dad was banged up for trying to bring 40 kilos of Moroccan hash weed through customs while off his head on Lambrusco.
Sadly mum and Bouncer (who, incidentally, was born without paws) had to stop after a run in with a cyclist. I say 'run-in' but it was really more a fully fledged assault. How would you feel if a man on a bike, dressed as a pirate, had poked and prodded your mother with a flag on the end of a stick while shouting "Avast ye mateys, make way for the Skully and Crossbones"? All the while cackling and chortling and looking at her in a funny way with his little gimlet eyes?
It was certainly a bizarre incident and enough to stop mum from going there again. I am not saying it means everyone riding a brightly coloured fixie skidder bike should be banned from that path but it is something to think about.