L is for Lych gate#

Sat Nov 30 17:46:11 2024

I didn't go offroading today, but there was enough mud, gravel and water on the roads I did go on that it might be hard to tell the difference. Lesson: Kurviger is not for winter.

L is for "Lych-gate", with a side order of L is for "Light is fading fast" and of course L is for "Liquid" (see previous post).

According to reliable sources on the internet(sic), lychgates (from the Anglo Saxon word 'lich' meaning corpse) outside churches mark the division between consecrated and unconsecrated ground, and are so called because in a funeral ceremony that's where the coffin bearers and the body would wait for the priest. Assuming that I didn't get terribly terribly lost and end up at the wrong church completely, this is St Mary's in Great Canfield

Many years of street skating has given me a pretty good feel for the amount of grip available on different road surfaces, and the surfaces today were wet greasy muddy and generally yuck. I do suspect that there is still more traction available from a big fat sportsbike tyre than from 4x110mm plastic wheels and I was being probably way too cautious - but I know of no non-catastrophic way of finding out just how much more, so there we are