Archive for 2006

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Book Books of the year
December 19th/12.30/The Three Cups Meet in pub (OR walk from the war memorial on the Embankment starting at 11am) Arthur and George, Julian Barnes   +
November 23rd/10.30/Mowsbury Park West/LW Bedford - Pavenham (The Cock) Tough Guys Don't Dance, Norman Mailer   -
November 2rd/10.30/Priory CP/DS Bedford - Great Barford - Eaton Socon - St Neots - Little Paxton (the Anchor) and return Skinny Dip, Carl Hiassen    -
October 5th/10.30 for 10.50 train/ Bedford Station/JH Bedford - Fenny Stratford - Loughton - Valley Park - New Bradwell - Great Linford (Nags Head) - return via canal Coming from Behind, Howard Jacobson  
September 15th/10.30/Priory CP/MT Bedford - Gamlingay (The Hardwick Arms) Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad  
August 24th /10.30/Priory CP/RB Bedford - Broom (The Cock) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain  
August 4th/10.30/Priory CP/LW Bedford - route 56 - Cranfield (TheSwan) Tender is the Night. F Scott Fitzgerald  
July 14th/10.30/Mowsbury Park West/LW Little Staughton (The Crown) A Brief History of Tractors in Ukrainian, Marina Lewycka  
June 22nd/10.30/Priory CP/RB Bedford - Tempsford Rabbit Run, John Updike  
May 25th/10.50 train to Stewartby/LW&MT Stewartby - Husbourne Crawley (The White Horse) Strangers and Brothers, C. P. Snow  
May 4th/10.30/Mowsbury Park West/MT&LW Bedford - Astwood (The Old Swan) Brave New World, Aldous Huxley  
April 13th/10.50 train from Bedford station/JH Aspley Guise - Woburn - Milton Bryan - Toddington (lunch at The Sow and Pigs) - Tingrith - Seppingley - Millbrook (16.07 train to Bedford)  This Sporting Life, David Storey  
March 23rd/10.30/Bedford Park by fountain/RB Bedford = Stevington - Pavenham- Odell (The Bell) The Story of Lucy Gault.,William Trevor  +++
March 2nd/10.30/Priory CP/PDy Bedford - Blunham - Northill (The Crown) - return Saturday, Ian McEwan (guide for reading groups)  
February 2nd/10.30/ Bedford town bridge./LW Bedford - Biddenham - Bromham - Oakley - Carlton - Turvey (Three Fishes) and return The Untouchable, John Banville  ++
January 12th/10.30/Priory CP/RB Bedford - Broom (The Cock) - ride that was planned for December 2nd. Postcards, Annie Proulx