Thorneyfields Lane punctures.

[Gramaisc]

I am told that these caltrop-like devices have been found there, having punctured several tyres.

https://www.facebook.com/GDBRecovery/posts/1533378076726594

 

[Withnail]

I'm a bit surprised that you bought into the whole 'fatty' thing.

Less so that you appear to have customised it to an awesome degree.

I am nonetheless left wondering whether this wheel set is set up for disk brakes or whether you have found a supplier of +plus sized caliper brakes?

 

[Wormella]

If they have been put there deliberately it's a clever lane to pick to do it on given the name of it.

 

[Gramaisc]

If they have been put there deliberately it's a clever lane to pick to do it on given the name of it.

Mmm, interesting spelling that I've never noticed before - I would be happy with "thorny" without the "e", if we mean "having lots of thorns".

There is Thorney Island, of course, which, like many island names ends in "ey", going back to the Viking name-ending meaning "island", Anglesey, Bardsey, etc, making the "Island" part rather superfluous.

I wonder if the land round there was boggy in the past, leading to islands to which hawthorns, etc., might be restricted? In Irish boglands, there are often places with island-style names.