Plenty of takers for my rather short Sunday ‘long’ ride to Littleworth Common. 9 of us Lilo, Geoff, Robert, Jim ‘Rough Stuff’ Swan, Bob, Bernie ‘the bolt’ Green (resplendent in his Val Doonican style jumper), Cliff, Alan ‘extra gravy’ Potter and me Chris ‘extra groovy’ Kinsey descend on Costa Coffee in Chalfont St Giles on a bright Winter morning having cycled through Denham, West Hyde and Horn Hill witnessing the extensive construction work taking place for HS2. The route to the Jolly Woodman took us past Milton’s cottage through Seer Green, the mean back streets of Beaconsfield and up to Wooburn Common. We thoroughly warmed up in the pub as our table was next to their thermo-nuclear inferno of a wood burner. Back out in the cold after lunch we took our return journey through Burnam beeches, Fulmer and Iver Heath. The sun shone brightly in the afternoon but did little to mitigate the freezing Winter chill.