UPDATE: Carters Steam Fair pics here, please look.

Up at the crack of dawn on Saturday to go to Watford to have my bike serviced by the dealer. I arrived at the garage first so by the time I had a cooked breakfast and a mosey round the unopened shopping centre my bike was ready to be collected. The bike is 'run-in' now so I can, in theory, hit more than 50mph if I so choose. However, London traffic, and it's speed limits, will never allow this.
In the afternoon we went to Dulwich (not been before, posh innit!) to visit Carters Steam Fair. This must be the best looking fair in the world. Old school rides, original fair art work, steam engines creating electricity, toffee apples, old jazz and rock 'n' roll playing on the sound systems and games which can actually be won (I won a soft toy for Edward by being a crack-shot with an air rifle). Carters have just spent £100,000 and five years renovating an old Ark ride (we used to call it the 'speedway' in the 70's) and it was on show so I rode it. Memories. After the fair we toddled into Dulwich Village and ate dinner at a lovely french restaurant. Didn't see Mrs Thatcher though.



Today was another sunny day so Darren and I went to Southend for some sea air. There was a big scooter rally in town so we had lots of hot totty to look at as we strolled along the prom with our trays of chips and gravy. Southend has really smartened up it's act in the past few years and is not such an ugly eyesore anymore. There's still room for improvement though.