Eaglestone
Well-Known Member
Sorry never thought I would get embroiled in one of these heated exchanges
I did not think I was that naive!
The Remembrance Day Ceremonies have never been held in the Village Centre before, I presume it has previously been held at the Church and we had avoided that. This was being held smack in the middle of the Bridleway at a huge road junction!. Our Village has gone through a huge transformation over the last couple of years and one big irritation of mine is that the long distance Bridleway called the Downs Link used to meander through the Village under the old road bridge and not mix with any traffic whatsoever. However what we now have to cope with, is a major road junction with traffic lights, with push button controls, for Equestrian, Cyclist and Walkers use in the middle of the Village, with a large Medical Centre one side and a large Pub the other side you have to see it to believe it, and I still wonder why permission was granted to mix Equestrians with Traffic when it was quiet and tranquil before, but thats progress I suppose!.
What it is hard to get over is that we did change the route (my old boy is not very good being turned round so I always try to do circular routes, rather than turn round). So we rode up the road further and round behind the huge Medical Centre and down another little Bridleway, and at this stage to my horror I realised that they were nearer than we thought and therefore moving quietly forward was the only option. We did not make anyone move at all.
Posts can be very flat and its not always easy to get the view over in perspective unless you go on and and on and I thought I had said too much anyway ... obviously had!
As I sometimes lose the thread and do not know whos responding to who . So I thought a generic some of you was the course of action. However I was reacting as I was so so unhappy that a member who had joined the HHO Forum at 22.37 hours and this was their first post, was not a very good way to introduce themselves, without getting to know the members. I was gob smacked!
How naïve could I be to not realise that this could be miss read, so I will go away and hide behind a bush with Elitemareslol and carry on watching in the future ..
The point being that I did not ride through it, but skirted round it!
The Remembrance Day Ceremonies have never been held in the Village Centre before, I presume it has previously been held at the Church and we had avoided that. This was being held smack in the middle of the Bridleway at a huge road junction!. Our Village has gone through a huge transformation over the last couple of years and one big irritation of mine is that the long distance Bridleway called the Downs Link used to meander through the Village under the old road bridge and not mix with any traffic whatsoever. However what we now have to cope with, is a major road junction with traffic lights, with push button controls, for Equestrian, Cyclist and Walkers use in the middle of the Village, with a large Medical Centre one side and a large Pub the other side you have to see it to believe it, and I still wonder why permission was granted to mix Equestrians with Traffic when it was quiet and tranquil before, but thats progress I suppose!.
What it is hard to get over is that we did change the route (my old boy is not very good being turned round so I always try to do circular routes, rather than turn round). So we rode up the road further and round behind the huge Medical Centre and down another little Bridleway, and at this stage to my horror I realised that they were nearer than we thought and therefore moving quietly forward was the only option. We did not make anyone move at all.
Posts can be very flat and its not always easy to get the view over in perspective unless you go on and and on and I thought I had said too much anyway ... obviously had!
As I sometimes lose the thread and do not know whos responding to who . So I thought a generic some of you was the course of action. However I was reacting as I was so so unhappy that a member who had joined the HHO Forum at 22.37 hours and this was their first post, was not a very good way to introduce themselves, without getting to know the members. I was gob smacked!
How naïve could I be to not realise that this could be miss read, so I will go away and hide behind a bush with Elitemareslol and carry on watching in the future ..
The point being that I did not ride through it, but skirted round it!
