title Bike Rides and a Visit to the Farm Shop, Eye, Suffolk - 25th April 2023 intro It's time to start stretching out the bike rides, so it's back to the Gislingham/Cotton loop with a look at the sadly-closed-down Cotton Trowel and Hammer pub, and a new ride from Eye to Gislingham and back via Burgate, Redgrave, and Wortham. In between, we check out the new pop-up-style Fen Farm Dairy's farm shop on the edge of Eye Airfield, and there are also a couple of hastily-grabbed photos of an epic flypast right over the house. This turns out to be a practice run for the up-coming Coronation. imgp0064 The boarded-up Trowel and Hammer pub imgp0065 The sad sight of a closed-down pub in Cotton imgp0067 Charlie's briefly behind the bar in the Yaxley Tree imgp0071 Pablo the dachsund meets another dog imgp0072 Lucy - the one-eyed cat - comes for a walk imgp0074 The cat hesitates as we get too far out of range imgp0077 Isobel heads to the old B1077 road imgp0078 Someone has twatted the sound-proof fence imgp0082 Isobel and Fred by the new farm shop imgp0083 Fen Farm Dairy's pop-up-style shop imgp0084 Some of the 1943 concrete runway imgp0087 The village green in Burgate imgp0090 Remains of the old A143 near Botesdale imgp0095 The derelict water tower at New Waters imgp0098 Derelict buildings at Magpie Green imgp0102 A stone marks the Wortham Tithe War of 1934 imgp0104 The church of St. Mary the Virgin, Wortham imgp0107 The nave of St. Mary the Virgin imgp0111 The collapsed tower of the church imgp0112 Nosher's bike leans by the lych gate imgp0115 The closed-down former Dolphin pub in Wortham imgp0118 Inside the Wortham Dolphin imgp0119 The Dolphin's side room imgp0120 A bit of the old A143, bypassed a few metres away imgp0122 The Cherry Tree in Yaxley is up for lease imgp0125 The new mega-estate off Castleton Way in Eye imgp0129 Eye's first-ever roundabout on Castleton Way imgp0131 A C-17 Globemaster and A400M fly over imgp0133 A voyager followed by an RC-135W Rivet Joint imgp0138 A squadron of Typhoons bring up the rear