Frances reads extracts from Budget letters from 1907-1910, where the siblings describe their many bicycling expeditions.
The siblings discuss the 1907 Bicycling Tour and their favourite bits;
Edmund is sorry that he didn't snapshot a spill;
Vera and Bernard shock people by cycling on a Sunday;
Cuthbert punctures, a lot, in Branscombe, Devon;
Enid and Cyril cycle to Enville;
Vera annoys a sailor by cycling faster than him;
Neville describes cycling in Pretoria, South Africa;
Avice and Cecil go cycling in County Down, Northern Ireland
and Cuthbert punctures, a lot, again, this time at Alum Bay on the Isle of Wight.
Intro - 00:00
Bicycling expeditions - 00:40
Notes on letters - 13:58
1908 Bicycling expeditions - 16:58
1909 expeditions - 35:22
1910 expeditions - 42:20
Bernard's Alum Bay poem - 51:18
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