OK the answer is everyone - bugger.
David and I rode up to the Haw Bridge Inn on the River Severn on Thursday night and spent a few hours talking bikes and having supper in the pub. There was a group on the site who had booked the whole site for the weekend but we managed to sneak in - and not pay for the pitch!!!
We made out normal 8am start and rode in the rain through Herefordshire and into Wales stopping for breakfast at the Honey Cafe at Bronllys - always excellent. Left there in the rain and rode up to Newtown and on to Llangollen ... Now very wet... We then took a short cut via Bala and arrived at the campsite at about 4pm.... We had now sat under the tarp on a table making tea and getting ready for our meal -- cooking tonight and we each have a bottle of cheap plonk to assist with any insomnia .....
More later maybe. Hic.