Here is the Menu for our Christmas Lunch, which is on Decenber the 14th at The Mitre, Witheridge at 12 for 12.30am sit down. The price of the meal for Members and their guests is £15 pounds a head.
Please send your order with remittance to our Treasurer Keith Cleeve, 1, Graham Close, Tiverton, EX13 6BS. As an added bonus you get to hear a speech by Dermot.

December ‘Christmas dinner / lunch menu’ 2019

                                                                           Starters

Ham Hock terrine with sweet pickled cucumber and piccalilli 

winter vegetable soup with croutons

Breaded whitebait and whole tail scampi with homemade tartare sauce

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Main course

Roast free-range local turkey breast with pork sausage meat stuffing, pigs-in-blankets, turkey gravy and roast potatoes

local game pie topped with crispy, sliced potatoes

hake supreme, wrapped in prosciutto with pesto, roast cherry vine tomatoes and red peppers

baked aubergine, stuffed with tomato and walnuts, topped with melting Devon blue cheese

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Desserts

Christmas pudding and double cream

sicilian lemon tart with stapleton’s local vanilla bean ice cream

rich chocolate torte with stapleton’s belgian chocolate ice cream

A Selection of cheese - Cornish Yarg, Devon blue and Dorset red with crackers and chutney

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Freshly ground Italian coffee and chocolates___________________
All 3 courses £15 after VMCC subsidy

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• Please let us know if you have any specific dietary requirements and we’ll do our best to help

trailers for sale

I have been asked to put on the blog 2 trailers which are for sale, there is a single bike trailer and a 2 wheeled trailer with sides, if anyone is interested please let me know and I will pass your interest on.

Sad news

Sadly I have to tell you all that Ray passed away this morning around 5am after a fight with cancer recently diagnosed, a few of you have known Ray longer than I but he was a good friend of mine and others, a long serving member of the section most of which he spent on the committee in one role or the other, in fact he was our secretary for over 30 years. Ray was in my mirrors for many years and I shall miss him as will many of you.

end of summer run 080919

This end of Summer run turned out to have better weather than the Summer run of last month, I can only think that Roy does not have the contacts that Dermot clearly has. 14 riders turned up at Kirsty's kitchen ( no longer owned by Kirsty it appears! ), to park in the centre of North Tawton blocking the streets and parking all over the double yellows hoping the traffic wardens do not rise that early here.
This was Dermot's run to organise and lead with Chris and Ian agreeing to bring up the rear. Dermot warned us of a bad turning in Launceston ( Lanson ), and with that the run set off just 15 minutes later than planned. We were led back to the main road where we followed it into and through Okehampton and Sourton before we ducked under the A30 and took the old road to Lanson via Jethro's palace in Lewdown. weedling our way through the narrow streets of Lanson led us out towards Bude before turning off to Red Post and on to Kilkhampton where we took lunch at the New Inn.
9 riders stayed with Dermot after lunch heading to Bradworthy, once through Bradworthy, we passed Melbury reservoir and Hoopers water, ( nobody wanted any as it was a stretch to the next convenienence ! ), but on to Buckland Brewer and finally to Torrington common for an ice cream.
despite Dermots attempt to get someone to treat him to a pint of Doom Bar and an ice cream, I think he ended up buying his own.
Thanks to Dermot for the route and for testing our turn around in the road skills, and to Chris and Ian for bringing up the rear and to Mike for shaking sign up money from us at the start. Next run will be the Autumn run on 13th October from Sainsburys, Barnstaple, a run which I will miss but Chris has kindly agreed to do a write up so you can all see where you went, I will think of you all whilst cruising down the Rhine just before Brexit! ( there somebody had to mention it ).

the bikes await the warden!

Kirsty's were glad to see us and bikes

the New Inn did us proud

then there was t'other side