What has this got to do with motorbikes I hear you ask, answer – everything. During the long ‘Foot and Mouth’ break Canada heights got tuned into a big garden. The grass was cut, the trees pruned, banks landscaped, trees planted, etc, etc. So we sent an expedition out to the Chelsea Flower show to get ideas for the future.

Alan the garden designer (left), Marge Clarke (centre) and Chris Lillywhite. Obviously discussing how you should put an herbaceous border around the tabletop.

Marge Clarke and Chris Lillywhite planning to add these metal hammocks to the Heights for all you tired riders to sleep in.

After a tiring expedition the crew meet up with the press secretary Roger Ashby (left) in Sloane Square, with Marge Clarke (right) reporting back by phone to base with the expeditions results and explaining to Sheila (centre) how to use her new phone.