The Met Office man had predicted high winds and rain so there were not many takers for rides this morning. Four of us opted to follow Margaret to Kew and later on picked up one other at Moniz. Margaret's route was a bit different to the usual way of getting to Kew, sort of counter clockwise via Feltham and the Richmond side of the Thames. Our small fast moving pack created a counter cyclonic force to the prevailing weather pattern resulting in not a drop of the predicted heavy rain - hoorah. The Greyhound was packed as the garden pods were out of bounds while they were putting up their usual Christmas marquee. Luckily we had booked a table so that was no problem for us. Margaret's top tip of the day: Don't have your cataracts done as you will suddenly start spotting dust everywhere resulting in having to do unwanted housework.