I think that maybe I'm being encouraged to write a new blog. It's been a while since the last one, after all. All the blogs are cycle related and all involve long distance cycle journeys. This one, the next one, the one just on the horizon at the moment is one we have done before, so maybe a new blog is called for? But let's start by digressing. Question. What do you buy someone for their birthday when they have reached the age of three score years and fifteen, and when they already have all that they could possibly wish for? Birthday presents aside, this story sort of starts with someone approaching that significant birthday in conversation with a younger friend of sixty several over a breakfast in the depths of winter. One of them (we don't know which because they are getting on a bit and perhaps they are just a little forgetful) said , "I really fancy doing LEJOG again," and the other said "Right you are then. Let's do it.". That was it. Ther...