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The rolling London walking thread (Saturday October 15th, Otford to Eynsford)

Let the Sunday walks roll on and on and on and on, because I swear, there's a pub 500 yards around the next corner, honest!

― The Damp Is Rising (kate), Monday, 21 November 2005 17:03 (nineteen years ago)

Next mooted walk - Sunday 4th December, Greenwich Observatory to Canary Wharf. A reschedule of the one that I mucked up.

Me, Emsk, Johnney and Ed already in. Shall we get an early start (even if it means giving up Countryfile) to make sure that we have the light for the good bits of the walk?

― The Damp Is Rising (kate), Monday, 21 November 2005 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

So, errrrmmm... who's still up for it? In the brisk and lovely air.

― Please Snap StressTwig (kate), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 11:49 (nineteen years ago)

yes! how early is early? same meeting place as last time?

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 11:55 (nineteen years ago)

Where's the "usual meeting place"? I feel honored! And times, etc? I found my 1p0d so I'm happy for the bus journey anyway!

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

Where did we meet last time? Obv. I can't remember because I didn't make it. Was it at the Observatory? By the Mean Time Line (grrrrrr!)

How early can you make it, JB?

― Please Snap StressTwig (kate), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 16:07 (nineteen years ago)

I'm up for this. Not been to Green Witch in aaages.

― robster (robster), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

Hurrah! If we start early enough, we can catch a snack in the market as well!

― Please Snap StressTwig (kate), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

huzzah

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

i think last time we met at 1 or 2 or something... don't remember really... but yesh, top of the hill by the observatory thingy. there's a convenient wall just at the top of the path.

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

Should start earlier than that, light being a issue now.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

yes, I was thinking earlier start would be better, but not too early as it will take JB at least 2 hours to get there from Oxford. Is 11am too early? (Oh no, I'll miss CountryFile...)

― Please Snap StressTwig (kate), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

11 good for me.

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

I can manage 11 I reckon. Despite the getting-up-on-a-Sunday-isn't-that-what-CHRISTIANS-do? horror I'm likely to experience 1st thing.

― robster (robster), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 20:00 (nineteen years ago)

I'd like to come along to this, but i have to be in 34l1ng by 3pm - that's going to fuck everything isn't it?

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

You can drop out half way if you like, plenty of transport options along the route.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 08:37 (nineteen years ago)

The only hard part is going to be dragging yourself out of the pub, Chuck...

I generally get up quite early on Sundays anyway. It's Saturday I can't drag myself out of bed.

― Control your ponies, children! (kate), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 08:49 (nineteen years ago)

bells on sunday early or Archers omnibus early?

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 08:59 (nineteen years ago)

Silly boy, you know I don't listen to the Archers. I'm often stupidly chipper on Sunday mornings. Mainly because I've made Saturday my official Day Of Rest for lying in bed and consuming first the Guardian in total, then Country Life.

― Control your ponies, children! (kate), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 09:02 (nineteen years ago)

I reckon I can manage 11am. You're gonna have to give me directions from Victoria tho . . .

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 09:54 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, blimey... no idea how to do that. Assume you'd have to take some kind of overground to Greenwich and then walk up the hill. Or, if you can make it as far as the overground, I could meet you at the station.

I will actually have to look it up myself, how to get there! Southeastern trains are confusing.

― Control your ponies, children! (kate), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 09:56 (nineteen years ago)

OK, I believe that you can get an overground train from Victoria to London Bridge. From London Bridge it's a doddle to get to Greenwich.

― Control your ponies, children! (kate), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 10:03 (nineteen years ago)

Victoria has direct trains to grenwich or lewisham.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 10:13 (nineteen years ago)

If overgrounding, I think Maze Hill is handier for the Royal Obs. than Greenwich proper BTW.

― robster (robster), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 10:23 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, but if I try to plot a course to Maze Hill, I get a tangle of engineering works. It's a nice walk up the hill, especially on a misty morning.

― Control your ponies, children! (kate), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 10:26 (nineteen years ago)

Argh, no wonder! This is rubbish. Disruptions and engineering on the Southern trains from London Bridge to Streatham Common. Bah! Am I either going to just take the bus to London Bridge, even though it takes, like, an hour? Or risk the maze of South Eastern trains and try to go around?

― Control your ponies, children! (kate), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 10:41 (nineteen years ago)

Right, the helpful london transport website tells me to do THIS:

9:47 - District Line - get off at Westminster
9:53 - Jubillee Line - get off at Southwark
Walk to Waterloo East
10:04 - Overground to Greenwich station - arrives at 10:16.

Does that sound reasonable?

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Friday, 2 December 2005 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

That seems convoluted - but I know lots of overground trains aren't running this weekend due to the construction. Try running it again with "fewest connections" rather than "shortest time" and see if it can bring you up a simpler route.

― Control your ponies, children! (kate), Friday, 2 December 2005 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

When I do that, the quickest option is exactly the same only via Embankment instead of Southwark and Charing Cross instead of Waterloo East!

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Friday, 2 December 2005 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

I've looked it up - it is the bloody engineering work. Same problems that are affecting me. FFS...

― Control your ponies, children! (kate), Friday, 2 December 2005 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

Here are some suggestions involving rail replacement services, but still.

(Also, I really don't think that Waterloo to Waterloo East is a 20 minute walk!)

― Control your ponies, children! (kate), Friday, 2 December 2005 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

Bah, they didn't all come through.

― Control your ponies, children! (kate), Friday, 2 December 2005 13:56 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know about these things - in any case, I don't really mind a long journey, the big smoke is an exciting place for a country bumpkin like myself!

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Friday, 2 December 2005 14:27 (nineteen years ago)

Right so Kate, I'm meeting you at about 10.30 at Greenwich overground rail station, yes? Is that cool?

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Friday, 2 December 2005 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

Barring any horrible bus disasters, I'll see you then! bring your phone - I'll text you if anything goes wrong.

― Control your ponies, children! (kate), Friday, 2 December 2005 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

Ah - my phone is out of order at the moment, so negative on that one. However, we'll be fine. People survived for hundreds of years without mobile phones, so I reckon I'll be okay for a weekend!

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Friday, 2 December 2005 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

Oh no! Oh no! Well, just pick a convenient place where you can see incoming trains if I'm late. Though it's unlikely I'll be late, as I'm actually allergic to being late, but I know in advance that the trains will be strange.

― Control your ponies, children! (kate), Friday, 2 December 2005 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...
headsup. sorry for the short notice but the belgian is realising just before leaving that she loves the british countryside so we're doing one tomorrow in "kent's rolling tidal landscape". it's from the "this is a TREE" country walks for urbanites book again, difficulty 6 (bc of one steep climb), 9 miles/14.5k and we get to see vita sackville-west's house, plus the usual assortment of oasthouses and olde moss-covered churches and maybe a pub or two. we're getting the 9.54 train to leigh from charing cross, anyone wants to come meet us at charing cross by the main ticket office at 9.40. oh, and e or text me to let me know if you're coming so we can buy cheap tix.

― emsk ( emsk), Saturday, 14 January 2006 11:39 (nineteen years ago)

Vita Sackville-West's house is Sissinghurst, right? It is early, still having mahoosive jet lag.

― suzy (suzy), Saturday, 14 January 2006 12:01 (nineteen years ago)

says it's called knole house in teh book. perhaps she lived in two places. oh yes, childhood home.

― emsk ( emsk), Saturday, 14 January 2006 12:15 (nineteen years ago)

This is a great idea. Do you do kinda psychographic things like Ian Sinclair? I'll be moving to London in two weeks.

― Gatinha (rwillmsen), Saturday, 14 January 2006 12:17 (nineteen years ago)

yes we are the london psychogeographical walking and drinking society! or something. tomorrow is likely to be just about pwitty twees and funny birds and cosy pubs &etc, though.

― emsk ( emsk), Saturday, 14 January 2006 12:24 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...
k guys this is well overdue a revive, and the sunshine is making me hanker for open fields and l'odour de l'ordure. anyone around next weekend, sat 25th? (kate perhaps we could ask other shimuras if rehearsal can be on sunday as we've got pashfest in the evening anyway?)

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 17 February 2006 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

eeks, I'm booked up until march 18th/19th.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 17 February 2006 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, I think we might be rehearsing on the Saturday anyway. COuld we maybe do a London walk on the morning of the 26th? Like, up and down the Thames river walk, and then to the pub for lunch before the Pashfest?

― Boris and the Johnsons (kate), Friday, 17 February 2006 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

k. after the 25/2 i *could* do 4/3 but first real opportunity is 18th as well. anyone else?

xpost but pashfest is on the sunday, i was thinking of an out of london walk on the saturday. london walk on the day of the pashfest is a better idea though!

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 17 February 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

Let's do a London walk on Pashfest afternoon, and then have a proper out of town with fields and stuff walk on the 18th March.

― Boris and the Johnsons (kate), Friday, 17 February 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

OK, can we go to an aboreatum. I need to learn lots about trees at the moment.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 17 February 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

YES! we have to be at the bull for about 4.30 i should think.

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 17 February 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

bull? Are the curves playing a gig on the Archers?

― Ed (dali), Friday, 17 February 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

Yes. Yes, we are. Stay tuned to Radio 4 for the latest soap updates.

― Boris and the Johnsons (kate), Friday, 17 February 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

omg. house band on the archers.

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 17 February 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

OK, I hate the Archers, but still... OMIGOD, HOW COOL WOULD THAT BE? EMSK, PLEASE MAKE IT HAPPEN!!!!

ANyway, yes. Where are there aboretums in London? bear in mind, we will have to be in Clerkenwell by late afternoon to be on the Archers.

― Boris and the Johnsons (kate), Friday, 17 February 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

Have to compete with 'Dross'.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 17 February 2006 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

Is this on the 18th March or next weekend because I won't be around next weekend?

― Ed (dali), Friday, 17 February 2006 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

The Shimuras thing is next weekend. There will be another one in March, but don't know what date yet. Our proper walk will be on 18th March, I guess.

― Boris and the Johnsons (kate), Friday, 17 February 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

Any fule knows that all you have to do is sleep with Fallon to get a gig at the Bull.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 17 February 2006 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

OK, we have decided that we are going to do a short London walk the afternoon of:
http://static.flickr.com/41/102090112_636ed93295.jpg

However, we cannot decide if we want to do the Thames River Path walk (round trip from Blackfriars to Tower Bridge, round to Lambeth Bridge then back to Blackfriars), or the Regents Canal Walk from somewhere East to Angel. Any takers for either? Votes?

― Boris and the Johnsons (kate), Monday, 20 February 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

TRP for me! I'm going to be so happy to get to this gig.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 20 February 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

(It's not really a gig, it's just DJ-ing and chilling and stuffs.)

― Boris and the Johnsons (kate), Monday, 20 February 2006 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

Anyone else?

I'm thinking more and more, with the way my weekend is shaping up, that Sunday might end up being reserved for laundry and the weekly shop and oh yeah, sleep.

― Boris and the Johnsons (kate), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 12:55 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, please.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

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― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

OK, 4 people maketh a walk. Damn, so much for doing the laundry. maybe I'll do that on Saturday night. Or maybe I'll do the shopping on Saturday night, and do the laundry on Sunday morning before the walk.

― Boris and the Johnsons (kate), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 14:05 (nineteen years ago)

put the laundry on on sat night before you go to bed, and hang it out sunday morning. or put it on early sun morning, do the shopping, hang it out before you come back. woo!

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 14:06 (nineteen years ago)

I do not have a functional laundry machine. I have to go to the laundrette. Hence the organisational quandary. The laundrette is open from 8am to 7pm, hence why it has to be done in the morning.

― Boris and the Johnsons (kate), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

ohhhh. i get it. do it sunday morning! maybe you will see nick k4men.

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 22 February 2006 23:43 (nineteen years ago)

HI DERE! When and where is this starting?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 24 February 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sorry, I don't think I'm going to be able to do this. I've got so much I have to do this weekend and can't figure out how to get it all in, even without the walk. Maybe a weekend we aren't doing PashFest?

― Boris and the Johnsons (kate), Friday, 24 February 2006 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

I wish we had done that walk after all.

So when is the next one? I neeeeeed to get out of London.

― Boris and the Johnsons (kate), Monday, 27 February 2006 11:41 (nineteen years ago)

Here is a Bluebell Walk. Too bad we have to wait so long for bluebell season.

― Boris and the Johnsons (kate), Monday, 27 February 2006 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

I wish we had done that walk after all.

me too. i don't have a spare saturday or sunday til post-germany now - back on friday march 17th.

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 27 February 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

Well, that's when Ed is back, too, so I think that looks like the weekend.

― Boris and the Johnsons (kate), Monday, 27 February 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

So, for the walk on the 18th March (or it would be the 19th if we're still doing Sundays?) can we do the Hever Castle to Penshurst Place walk, especially since Penshurst seems to be open weekends in March.

― Funny Screen Name (kate), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 10:59 (nineteen years ago)

rehearsal on sat or no? i get back from germany sometime on 17th and victorians are playing 333 so if i'm back in time for it i'm going there. hever to leigh sounds good to me.

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

I guess let's do the Sunday then.

― Cuair Crithlonracha (kate), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

Hever and Penshurst are near a very good pub but I don't know if it's walkable. I shall investigate.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

It is called something like the Chessington or the Charington or something like that? Because I found a walk that takes that in as well!

(Also when are you back from NYC, or, indeed, are you back now? I think Sande & Memory Machine are playing on Thursday and I know you wanted to be told when they were playing again.)

― Cuair Crithlonracha (kate), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, close! Chiddingstone.

http://www.castleinn.co.uk/walks.html

― Cuair Crithlonracha (kate), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

George and Dragon (Biodynamic food, good vegetarian, Harvey's Ales)

(If I have recovered by thursday then I am up for it, got back this morning, do they have a website now?)

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

x-post, ah, that's a different one, then.

― Cuair Crithlonracha (kate), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

Also in the area

http://www.spavalleyrailway.co.uk/

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.penshurstplace.com/jpegs/houseandgardens5.jpg

This is the castle that I want to visit!

http://www.penshurstplace.com/

They have one of the best preserved 14th Century Great Halls in the country!

http://www.penshurstplace.com/jpegs/baronshall.jpg

― Cuair Crithlonracha (kate), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

is it national trust pls? i have a membership card somewhere.

are s&mm playing thursday? where at?

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, are they not playing at Club Dynamite? I need to read their invites more carefully.

Club Dynamite takes place on the 2nd March @ The Royal George which is off of Tottenham Court Road, in the little nook known as Goslett Yard.

We've got a live set at around 9.30 from Scuta and Jim's alt. country twopiece 3 Chords & The Truth. Craig and Natasha will be taking the
early DJ set with "Captain" Daniel Fell spinning some tunes after the 3 Chords experience. Then Chopper is going to roll out the wheels of steel for the final hour.

I don't know if PP is National Trust or not. I think it was, in my Mark Girouard book that got me obsessed with the place in the first place, but from the website, it looks not.

― Cuair Crithlonracha (kate), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

Also, I don't know if it's within the remit of the Rolling Walking thread or not, but does anyone else want to see the gothic nightmares exhibit at the Tate Britain not this Sunday but the next?

We could combine it with a Millbank Walk if anyone wanted.

― Cuair Crithlonracha (kate), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

(Actually, I think you will be in Germany, right, Emsk.)

― Cuair Crithlonracha (kate), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

When is it you're doing Hever/Penshurst Place? I want to come!

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

Sunday, 19th March! Do come, Archel, it will be great!

― Cuair Crithlonracha (kate), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 16:11 (nineteen years ago)

I'm in for this too if I'm around.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

Bump, let us plan.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 13 March 2006 12:28 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry, not at work today, but yes. We should plan. I'm in, Emsk is in and she might bring The Russian.

― Fish is Biodegradable! (That Means It Rots) (kate), Monday, 13 March 2006 12:39 (nineteen years ago)

I am at work today. Let planning commence.

Are we going to do the full 10 mile or whatever walk, or do we have an alternate plan? I would like to get a decent amount of time at Penshurst Place, if possible. Even if that means cutting off a bit of the walk.

― Failure Isn't Falling, It's Staying Down (kate), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 11:07 (nineteen years ago)

Ok looking at the OS on streetmap I would say, Train to Leigh. Walk to Penshurst Place 3.5km, lunch at the inn, see the house (order could be reversed, the walk the 2km or so to Penshurst station.

Job done.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 11:26 (nineteen years ago)

That sounds perfect.

― Failure Isn't Falling, It's Staying Down (kate), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 11:28 (nineteen years ago)

Trains take approx 1 hour from London Bridge or Victoria.

East Croydon is an intermediate stop.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 11:40 (nineteen years ago)

Hrmmm. I wonder if I can meet you at Croydon (though I think my train goes to West Croydon - they're not far apart, though.) London Bridge is super easy for me, too. I don't suppose we can properly plan a time until Emsk gets back from Germany. (Maybe I should email Johnney B, he doesn't seem to have been on ILX for ages.)

― Failure Isn't Falling, It's Staying Down (kate), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 11:41 (nineteen years ago)

Direct trains are at three minutes past the hour at London Bridge xx:23 and xx:53 for quicker but change at Tonbridge trains.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 11:54 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, I'd got it into my head that it was Saturday not sunday, in which case the trains are being arsey.

Thameslink is up the swanney and not going via london bridge so 2 hrs and 2 changes from there. If we go the Tonbridge way then there is a 1 minute connection to make there. Things are ballsed up, I will work it out when I have a moment.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

Thameslink doesn't go from London Bridge! It's Southern! But still, yeah, that whole route gets fuX0red on Sundays.

― Failure Isn't Falling, It's Staying Down (kate), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 13:27 (nineteen years ago)

(Funny thing is, at the weekend, my mum was trying, excitedly to tell me "have you heard of an organisation called The Ramblers. Maybe you should join them?")

― Failure Isn't Falling, It's Staying Down (kate), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

Ah! I have located the super-mysterious vanishing Johnney B... he says that he has been too super busy at work to go on ILX (pshaw! like we aren't?) but that he might be interested in coming on the walk this weekend.

― Failure Isn't Falling, It's Staying Down (kate), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

I'm thinking we should probably try to leave London about 11?

If JB is coming, Victoria might be an easier starting point. Especially if Southern is going to be fuX0red.

― Failure Isn't Falling, It's Staying Down (kate), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 10:53 (nineteen years ago)

Sounds like it. I think an earlier start is in order just because if we get the train at 11 we won't start walking till nearly 1.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 10:55 (nineteen years ago)

xx:04 from victoria taking 1hr30.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 10:56 (nineteen years ago)

Really? Blimey. Maybe 10, then. But that means that I'm going to have to do the shopping and the laundry on Saturday morning and will probably be late for rehearsal. Bah.

― Failure Isn't Falling, It's Staying Down (kate), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 10:57 (nineteen years ago)

I think Matt and I are going to do our own local walk this weekend instead, due to poorness as usual :(

Have fun!

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 10:58 (nineteen years ago)

it's very annoying that a journey that takes as little as 45mins on a weekday takes an hour and a half on a Sunday.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 10:58 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, no, Arch. :-( Was looking forward to seeing you, but enjoy your walk, and we will have pints for one another in spirit.

That is irritating, would it make the same difference if we did it on a Saturday? I mean, I seldom even get to *work* by 10am. Uncivilised time of the morning.

― Failure Isn't Falling, It's Staying Down (kate), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 11:00 (nineteen years ago)

Saturdays are better in general as the railways are less fucked up. We were unfortunate to get hit by shenanigans round london bridge this weekend. Sundays are so much more traditional though.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 11:05 (nineteen years ago)

(I got a great book on Robert Hooke's post great fire London plan in Waterstones Remainder section yesterday)

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 11:06 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, plus you get Sunday Pub Roast on Sundays. (In proper pubs.)

And that sounds like a great book! I heart Waterstones Remainders. That Pursuit of Oblivion book it turning out to be amazing.

― Failure Isn't Falling, It's Staying Down (kate), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 11:12 (nineteen years ago)

It is very dangerous for me to walk home by there. I got that a history of navigational instruments and the men who stare at goats and almost bought a book called the New York Chronicle which is an almost dya to day history of New York from the begining of time.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 12:16 (nineteen years ago)

Oh goodness, I want The Men Who Stare At Goats. I would probably go all Captain Anderson over navigational instruments. I got some great stuff at the one by the London School of Ecognomics a few weeks ago. After I'm finally done with the big book of Infinity I'm going to move on to a book about Eclipses and a book about the Black Death in Scotland. (And I finally got the Routemaster book.) I love the randomness of the stuff available, which makes you just pick up things you'd never think of looking for otherwise. But yes, I can drop too much money there.

I have been in touch with the Oxford branch of the PRS (or were we the LPWS? Did we ever decide?) and am trying to get MarkH to come as well.

― Failure Isn't Falling, It's Staying Down (kate), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 12:20 (nineteen years ago)

hooray.

Waterstones remainders have a big pile of £5 hardback copies.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 12:42 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe I will walk up there at lunch... but that could be similarly dangerous. Unless I take only a ten pound note and NO CARDS.

― Failure Isn't Falling, It's Staying Down (kate), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 12:44 (nineteen years ago)

Could be very very dangerous, I was lucky to get out only spending £16.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 12:49 (nineteen years ago)

Hurrah! Johnney B and MarkH are IN!

However, they want to know what time our train is, where it's going from, so they can book Megabus tickets to get here from Oxford.

Shall we agree on the 10:04 from Victoria and hope that Emsk can make it?

― Failure Isn't Falling, It's Staying Down (kate), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

Also, Ed, which email of yours works, so they can email you for details?

― Failure Isn't Falling, It's Staying Down (kate), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

the one used here works, except for today when it does not. I will text you my crackberry address.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

You cannot believe the problems that a director's crackberry addiction is causing in the finance department today. ;-)

― Failure Isn't Falling, It's Staying Down (kate), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

OK, I have been highly organised and sent a group email to everyone.

― Failure Isn't Falling, It's Staying Down (kate), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

hello! hallow! hauptbahnhof! schmeckt! ausfahrt! fruhstuck! kuchen! schapfenstrpuppies! bier! keine fleisch!

*falls over*

thameslink bluddy DOES go from london bridge, i get it to and home from brighton.

i can do anything, whenever. what?

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 16 March 2006 00:46 (nineteen years ago)

Not this sunday it does not.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 16 March 2006 05:47 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry, I'm mixing up the Thameslink which goes to STREATHAM which does not go to London Bridge with the Thameslink that goes to BRIGHTON and does. And also the Southern train which goes to Streatham *AND* London Bridge! Are you confused now?

Anyway, it doesn't matter, Thameslink is shite on Sundays anyway.

― Failure Isn't Falling, It's Staying Down (kate), Thursday, 16 March 2006 10:51 (nineteen years ago)

yeh, i got that it was all fucked up this sunday, but thameslink DOES go from london bridge, as kate says above. brighton thameslink is ok on most sundays. are we going sunday or saturday?

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 16 March 2006 10:56 (nineteen years ago)

WE ARE GOING ON SUNDAY!!! It is tradition.

We are leaving from Victoria on the 10:04 train, I believe.

― Failure Isn't Falling, It's Staying Down (kate), Thursday, 16 March 2006 10:59 (nineteen years ago)

Also, we have a suggestion for May, in the Cambridge area:

Hemmingford Grey Manor (the basis for the house in the Greene Knowe novels) does guided tours in May:

http://www.aboutbritain.com/hemingfordgreymanor.htm

We could perhaps combine this with a country walk and a Cambridge FAP?

― The Boring Machine (kate), Friday, 17 March 2006 13:00 (nineteen years ago)

::bump::

One last time. Sunday, you guys! See youse then.

― The Boring Machine (kate), Friday, 17 March 2006 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

That was the best walk in ages! The amazing trees! The beautiful house! The lovely brandy! The promenade of lime trees that led to nowhere! The gorgeous Kentish ale! The beautiful, beautiful, Penshurt Place!

Where are we going on Good Friday, have their been any suggestions mooted?

― The Boring Machine (kate), Monday, 20 March 2006 10:51 (nineteen years ago)

somewhere HIGH

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 20 March 2006 11:28 (nineteen years ago)

High? Like that long bloody hill with the lime avenue wasn't high enough for you? I still have blisters from it! I want somewhere flat, with pretty gardens.

― The Boring Machine (kate), Monday, 20 March 2006 11:32 (nineteen years ago)

I think you're both right. I want somewhere high AND flat.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Monday, 20 March 2006 11:38 (nineteen years ago)

Sounds like the Salisbury Plain to me!

― The Boring Machine (kate), Monday, 20 March 2006 11:38 (nineteen years ago)

no, that wasn't high enough. it wasn't that much of a hill! i mean, it was perfect, and i was grateful for its being there, but i love the feeling when you get up somewhere high and you look around and see how high you are and you've done it all with your own feet and legs, no car or whatever. and all your endorphins go racing around barging into each other and it's brilliant.

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 20 March 2006 11:51 (nineteen years ago)

It was so high I had to stop halfway up it and fortify myself with more brandy! I am very out of shape. Sigh. I think we should do some more easy walks before we start tackling high hills again, or you just might kill me.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Monday, 20 March 2006 11:54 (nineteen years ago)

Emsk was wrapped up like a guerilla, so didn't suffer from the howling winds like what we did.

(and I'm horrendously unfit, but I should be able to walk up a hill without puffing. I stayed in a hotel a couple of weeks ago, and they had a full length mirror in the bathroom. I look HORRIBLE nakid, and I need to sort it out.)

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Monday, 20 March 2006 12:43 (nineteen years ago)

YSI?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 20 March 2006 12:48 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sorry, I know that there have been vast technological advances and the like, but one simply can NOT YSI a country walk.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Monday, 20 March 2006 12:48 (nineteen years ago)

can anyone recommend a London Walk (TM) or 7?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 20 March 2006 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

Walking along the Canal is a very good London Walk. Ditto the Thames River Path.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Monday, 20 March 2006 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

Though if you are in the vicinity of the Barbican, the London Wall Walk is also amazing. (Though I do not know if they have ever replaced the signs and markers.)

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Monday, 20 March 2006 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

i was certainly planning on walking at least a little ways along the canal, depending on time. little venice to camden is a bit of a ways, though, isn't it? is the boat any faster than feet?

is the thames river path on the north or south bank?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 20 March 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, the boat will be marginally faster than feet. But Little Venice to Camden isn't that far, if memory serves. The bit that winds around Regents Park is lovely and you avoid the grottiness around Kings Cross. Though my favourite bit is to start at Islington and walk East to Shoreditch (or as far as Victoria Park) - I think that is one of the prettiest bits - and has a few pubs right on the canal!

Thames River Path is on both sides of the Thames. I think that the South side is my favourite, though, as it winds around many of the little old streets of Southwark (though it is easy to get lost). London Bridge (or even Tower Bridge if you're adventurous) to the South Bank Centre, along the South Side, passing the Tate Modern, is absolutely lovely.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Monday, 20 March 2006 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

I will try and come up with something for gf. I have a few ideas.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 20 March 2006 17:08 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.railwaywalks.co.uk/eastsussex1.htm

Looks good but transport might be difficult.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 20 March 2006 19:11 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dotcommunist/sets/72057594087120002/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dotcommunist/sets/72057594087121555/

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 08:58 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, gorgeous pictures! And I've never seen so much mistletoe in one place before - did anyone get a snog?

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 09:48 (nineteen years ago)

No. :-(

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 11:00 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, no offense, but it wasn't like I was going to snog Ed. He's lovely and all, but it would be like snogging my brother. :-)

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 11:01 (nineteen years ago)

Hopefully not exactly like snogging your brother, I mean, i am not a Tory/Republican, they have forked tongues, don't they?

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 11:03 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know! I've never snogged my brother! Have I snogged a Tory? Was Magnus a Tory? I can't remember.

That railway walk does look lovely, but anything that relies on an entity like "Eastbourne Busses" makes me slightly nervous.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 11:20 (nineteen years ago)

This would be a great walk! Do you have to actually get an Eastbourne buss?

Direct trains from Victoria to Polegate.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 11:27 (nineteen years ago)

Also, I just noticed it has a vineyard. Can we stop to do wine tasting? :-)

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 11:31 (nineteen years ago)

Ooooh vineyard!

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 11:44 (nineteen years ago)

Those pictures are v. nice. The gnarled trees look nearly as amazing as in real life.

There was a vinyard at Penhurst, and we didn't do any wine-tasting there, much to my chagrin.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 11:55 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, I do love yew.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 12:06 (nineteen years ago)

I fear that stopping in the middle of a walk to taste wine might render me incapable of continuing the walk... (and yes I know you spit it out but even so.)

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 12:22 (nineteen years ago)

No, you metabolise the BOOZE faster because you are walking. That's how we are able to manage such massive quantities of Kentish Real Ale.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 12:27 (nineteen years ago)

eastborne busses required at the mayfield end of the walk I think.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 12:55 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, this whole joke is based on a lie. It is actually correctly spelled on the site, I just misread it. Mea culpa.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 12:59 (nineteen years ago)

Hehe you have slandered the noble Eastbourne bus! I must admit, I quite like Eastbourne in its way. Have never been to Mayfield but I did work in the Polegate mobile library once.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 13:56 (nineteen years ago)

When I was a wee child, we used to go on Parish Holidays in Eastbourne. I still associate the place with vicars in dodgy 70s shorts and sandcastle building competitions.

― Hello Cthulhu (kate), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

are you guys seeing pictures for the railway walk or something? i am not. except in my head.

lovely pics, ed.

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

three weeks pass...
So... Friday? I have been looking at this walk in my 'railway walks of Sussex' book, although it's a 20 mile version there eek.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 09:42 (nineteen years ago)

friday, yeah!

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 09:54 (nineteen years ago)

Walk? Walk? What walk?

*bothers to read rest of thread*

Oh, no-one knows what walk. Well, you know the local geography better than I - someone-who's-not-me can decide and organise. I, however, am up for a lovely Good Friday wander. I hope the weather clears up tho, it's horrible today.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 11:45 (nineteen years ago)

CAn someone else oragnise I am snowed under.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 11:47 (nineteen years ago)

i will attempt organising once i have made deadline.

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 11:51 (nineteen years ago)

ok. as you can see from this http://www.southernrailway.com/network_map.php?m=east they're on different branches so we can't just get a return ticket to the further one. the fares are a bit mentalism too but i think i found the cheapest way to do it.

for times i suggest:

leave london bridge 9.41
arrive east croydon 9.54
leave east croydon 10.04
arrive eridge 10.45

this is the thameslink so we could go from eg kings cross instead about ten mins earlier, but london bridge works wherever you're coming from, right? so we should start and end there.

then on the way home, a choice of this journey every hour:

leave polegate x.02
arrive haywards heath x.35
leave haywards heath x.48
arrive london bridge y.30

until the 21.02 which means changing at east croydon and getting in at 22.42, and the 21.42 which means going via brighton and getting in to london bridge at 23.45. but we're not gonna be that late anyway.


for tickets i suggest we get a groupsave return from london bridge to polegate which is £19.00 for a normal single ticket (so £9.50 each if four people use it, £12.66 if three do which seems a bit steep) and a groupsave single ticket from east croydon to eridge which is £5.00 single (so £2.50 or £3.33 each), making it somewhere £12 and £16 depending on how many of us there are. it looks like this is the cheapest way to do it. i could not make any sense of www.eastbournebuses.co.uk


for archel, journeyplanner sez get the 9.07 out of brighton 9.07, into east croydon 9.57, get on the same train as us into eridge, then there are trains out of polegate every .02 and .42 which take half an hour, the .02 ones needing a change at lewes.

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

Cor, complicated! nationalrail.co.uk also claims you have to change between E. Croydon and Eridge, at Hurst Green?

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

oh! isn't that just for the later trains? i was on nr.co.uk too and thought it was just if you got the 10.14 from london bridge you had to do that. i may have misread it though.

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

It seemed to be showing on all the journeys I looked at but I don't know...

I didn't quite gather from the walk description that you started at Eridge station, even!

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

k, i just double-checked the train and the 9.41 doesn't need a change at hurst green.

but apparently i didn't read the thing properly and it doesn't start at eridge after all. argh! i am going to get lunch.

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

It is a bit baffling. Shall I look at my book when I get home and report back, it might be a bit clearer?

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

no it says it does start at erith:

This picturesque walk follows the former 'Cuckoo Line' railway track and stretches from Eridge to Polegate. It passes through Heathfield, Horam, Hellingly and Hailsham.

oh i don't know.

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

Uhhhh... what? I'm drunk again, at frances' party and what's going on? I rthink I just volunteered to teqch AMP Reason on Fridaqy but atht won't be till night.

I never did get a birthdy thread did I? bah, rubbitch, you lot!

― Bernard's Summer Girlfriend (kate), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 23:08 (nineteen years ago)

Yes you did kate!

Ignore my blathering, it does start at Eridge doesn't it, I just found the webpage confusing because it seemed to be simultaneously saying Polegate. Which is the end of the walk.

(My book does it all in reverse but I will bring it along anyway as is it quite fascinating. I have map too.)

So, cool, we will meet you on the 10.04 from East Croydon then! I have kate's mob number but maybe I should have yours as well emsk - this email works.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 07:20 (nineteen years ago)

k, so who's in from london? kate, ed, johnny (unless you are going a diff way from oxford?), me. any more? london bridge, 9.25, by the ticket office under the departure screens?

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 07:54 (nineteen years ago)

arch i have mailed you me number.

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 07:55 (nineteen years ago)

Hi all! I'm up for a walk, most definitely. I was gonna do something different and go from Oxford, but the information superweb just told me to go Oxford-Reading-Redhill then catch the EXACT SAME train from Croydon as you guys, so it all works out fine. I need to catch the 7.55 train from Oxford (gulp) and it'll cost me £34.50 return. Blimey!

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 08:20 (nineteen years ago)

Please do more proper city walking kthx.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 08:27 (nineteen years ago)

johnny, that sounds insane. does getting to london bridge for 9.30 from oxford seem even more nuts? tfl journeyplanner says just under 15 mins from victoria to london bridge, and that way it would cost you less...

― emskbeingareceptionbunnyinarup3rtmurd0chownedco, Wednesday, 12 April 2006 10:19 (nineteen years ago)

Blimey! God, I was drunk last night. I passed out on the sofa, but at least I did better than Mr. Knight who fell asleep on the table.

I haven't been on the web much, how can I respond to planning? Bah, mumble, etc.

Can I meet you at East Croydon? That might actually almost be easier for me as I think it's closer. This is Friday, right? Where are we going? I have no idea! It's like a mystery walk or something. Hurrah!

― Bernard's Summer Girlfriend (kate), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 10:45 (nineteen years ago)

if we meet you at east croydon it means we can't do the groupsave ticket thing...

― emskbeingareceptionbunnyinarup3rtmurd0chownedco, Wednesday, 12 April 2006 11:36 (nineteen years ago)

Look around, one of the buttons must be labelled 'spike/snake/spikysnake pit'

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 11:55 (nineteen years ago)

Alright, alright, alright. London Bridge, then. Bah. But I'm supposed to go out with Daren and that means I'll be wrecked. Oh wait, but also I'm supposed to go out with Catty and she thinks I've given up drinking (well, I *did*! I just started again) ... maybe I'll just stay home and paint.

DO NOT SEND ME DOWN A SNAKEYSPIKEPIT, ANDREW. You're a mean DM. Can't you send me down the pretty angelpassageofjubilationandcrazypaisley like Alan Moore and Blake were on about? :-)

― Bernard's Summer Girlfriend (kate), Thursday, 13 April 2006 09:30 (nineteen years ago)

Also, do you think I will be back in time to show AMP Reason?

(I mean the computer programme, I have despaired of AMP ever seeing reason years ago, mwah hah hah.)

― Bernard's Summer Girlfriend (kate), Thursday, 13 April 2006 09:44 (nineteen years ago)

Please do more proper city walking kthx.

organise one?

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 13 April 2006 12:25 (nineteen years ago)

does getting to london bridge for 9.30 from oxford seem even more nuts?

That would mean I need to leave Oxford at 7.15 - double gulp! I think I'll stick to my plan and meet you all at East Croydon.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Thursday, 13 April 2006 12:41 (nineteen years ago)

I have complete option paralysis. I want to come but I also want to stay at home and make paoccai and anchovy ketchup.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 13 April 2006 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

come, then go home and make thing.

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 13 April 2006 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

Also tidying must happen. Let's see how it pans out when I wake up.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 13 April 2006 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

um, i have just realised, i do not have a map, or any clue of how to actually DO the walk. i interpreted "organising" as "organising transport". i will print off the stuff on that site... can't be that hard if it just follows a railway line, right?

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 13 April 2006 19:10 (nineteen years ago)

you can print out the OS maps on streetmap.com

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 13 April 2006 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

i won't be near a printer for more than another 2 mins, ihave to run. have aso realised i can't go if there aren't enough of us as can't afford to spend £20 on train tix :( £15 was already half as much again as would normally be my limit. so let me know if yr coming or no!

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 13 April 2006 19:30 (nineteen years ago)

hurrah i have found 2 more victims. but ed! come anyway! don't tidy! on bank holiday! and there will be time for thing-making on return...

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 13 April 2006 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...
Anyone up for anything on the 17th/18th of June or the 15th/16th of July. I'd like to do south oxfordshire or a coastal one. We could also spend a whole weekend in norfolk or the isle of white if you like?

― Ed (dali), Monday, 5 June 2006 08:25 (nineteen years ago)

Ooooh... maybe. Just have to check with what's going on in bandland.

― harmonic generator, haircuts are for losers (kate), Monday, 5 June 2006 08:58 (nineteen years ago)

Not June.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 5 June 2006 09:31 (nineteen years ago)

Actually the 18th would be fine - the 17th was going to be my housewarming but I completely forgot something else that's on the same day.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 5 June 2006 09:56 (nineteen years ago)

two months pass...
A walk around Richmond Park has been suggested.
How about Sunday 27th August? Or 3rd September?

we can watch deer and stuff!

― MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 5 August 2006 09:04 (nineteen years ago)

27h august i might be at reading, w/e of 3d september has been suggested for the postponed norwich weekend...

― emsk ( emsk), Saturday, 5 August 2006 09:09 (nineteen years ago)

hmmm.

10th Sep?

― MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 5 August 2006 09:31 (nineteen years ago)

September looks good to me, as the band are taking the month off so I don't have to worry about gigs and things.

― I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1! (kate), Monday, 7 August 2006 09:27 (nineteen years ago)

Hi guys! Can I come? Me not really posting to ILE (combination of not keeping up with the watercooler thread and damn nuisance work) means I feel like I haven't spoken to you guys for aaaages. 10th sep bad for me (I'll be on the Isle of Wight that weekend) but in general I support the concept of walking.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Monday, 7 August 2006 09:57 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, of course you can come. But argh, we need to get our dates straight.

― I'm On The Radio So I Don't Care!!!1! (kate), Monday, 7 August 2006 09:58 (nineteen years ago)

no one should take any notice of anything i say wrt september. or they can if they like, but they should be aware that should the opportunity to spend a weekend in the sea on the gower arise i will leap at it like an amphetamine-crazed salmon.

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 7 August 2006 10:23 (nineteen years ago)

Well, what do you expect from a beelicker? ;-)

― In Search Of The Infinite Freckle (kate), Monday, 7 August 2006 10:49 (nineteen years ago)

BEELICKER!!

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 7 August 2006 10:57 (nineteen years ago)

BEE LICKER!!! BEE LICKER!!!

http://static.flickr.com/82/207444779_09de3380c5.jpg

― In Search Of The Infinite Freckle (kate), Monday, 7 August 2006 10:59 (nineteen years ago)

"Licking the bee" is the best euphamism I've heard for cunnilingus.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Monday, 7 August 2006 11:11 (nineteen years ago)

Lick the bee
Get a furry tongue
But careful now
You might get stung

September 17th then? If we say 17th for definite *now* then lots of ppl won't have planned anyfink for then and we'll be ok < /optimism>

― MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 12 August 2006 08:01 (nineteen years ago)

Eh, what? Bump!

― das Fräuleinmaschine (kate), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 08:42 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...
The 14th or 15th of october is looking good for walking

― Ed (dali), Monday, 4 September 2006 10:00 (nineteen years ago)

I can do 14/15.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Monday, 4 September 2006 10:14 (nineteen years ago)

I'm thinking south oxfordshire, cholsey or Goring, taking in the King William IV in Hailey

― Ed (dali), Monday, 4 September 2006 10:32 (nineteen years ago)

As well as being near me (yay me!) it's absoltely beautiful round there, esp. in Autumn.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Monday, 4 September 2006 10:57 (nineteen years ago)

Yes! I am free that weekend. Count me in, please. Oxfordshire would be lovely.

― Goldene Schnitt (kate), Monday, 4 September 2006 11:13 (nineteen years ago)

count me in too! Oxfordshire *is* lovely, but then I would say that...

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 4 September 2006 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

four weeks pass...
OK, that sunday. Someone this weekend pointed out a fatal flaw in my original plan which would have had you tossing me in the thames, namely that where I had intended to get back across the river, there is no bridge. So, same location slightly different walk and I think I have some more recruits.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

It's a bit cold for swimming at that time of year, Ed.

I have been practicing walking up steep hills, so I think I shall be in shape. I hope.

― Virginia Plainsong (kate), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 13:50 (nineteen years ago)

yes pls throw me in the river on october 15th, i do not care where, make it deep. good for resilience.

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

Take me to the river... drop me in the water, wash-ha me down, wash-ah me DOOOOWWWWNNNN!!!

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

rolling london swimming? where are we going? train times? flask of bouillion masquerading as soup?

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 12:00 (nineteen years ago)

I think I still have brandy left over from the last one!

South Oxfordshire, right? I think my stamina is getting better, I should be OK on hills now.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 12:02 (nineteen years ago)

Flask of Hot (vegetablearian) Jelly.

I will buy a map: tomorrow.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 12:02 (nineteen years ago)

My hearing may be a bit faulty, as I'll have been seeing sunno))) the night before.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 12:03 (nineteen years ago)

where are sunno)))?

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 12:14 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, I just realised that's Friday night. Frieze Festival. At the Hippodrome, wherever on earth that is.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 12:17 (nineteen years ago)

If I'm not mistaken, it's the dodgy club off Leicester Square which is huge and full of the thicker sort of tourist and loads of men who look like Borat. Can see the curator odf the music stuff choosing the venue becauyse of that, though.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

I still don't have a firm route. What time can londoners be at paddington on sunday?

― Ed (dali), Friday, 13 October 2006 13:01 (nineteen years ago)

Ha, I was just coming to revive this thread. I have to do laundry on Sunday morning, so I don't imagine I could get there any time before 11am.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Friday, 13 October 2006 13:21 (nineteen years ago)

Only 11!

― Ed (dali), Friday, 13 October 2006 13:22 (nineteen years ago)

Eh? We don't usually meet before 1pm! Make fun of me and I'll say noon.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Friday, 13 October 2006 13:36 (nineteen years ago)

We have normally met before 10, no?

― Ed (dali), Friday, 13 October 2006 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

No! We didn't used to meet before Hollyoaks once upon a time!

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Friday, 13 October 2006 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

But that was for Urban walking

― Ed (dali), Friday, 13 October 2006 13:41 (nineteen years ago)

Sunday I will be gallivanting around Zone One with a man with an eyepatch and his lovely fiancée; have fun - keep me in the loop for next time.

As Kate says the meeting time is determined by end times of Hollyoaks omnibus but I think we did the seaside one quite early.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 13 October 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

Unless I can bring my laundry round yours, dump it, and pick it up when you've washed and dried it, my laundry needs done and Sunday morning is the only time I can do it.

I'd do it on Saturday afternoon... but wait, I'm helping you pick out a mandolin.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Friday, 13 October 2006 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

11 sounds good. depends what time sun goes down though.

kate, put your washing in the machine pre-mandolin shopping, take it out when you get back? or does that not work for some reason? i get the feeling we've done this one before...

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 13 October 2006 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

No, I have to stay with the washing while it washes, or someone at the laundrette will nick all my knickers. And I do not like rambling commando.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Friday, 13 October 2006 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

oh yes! i keep forgetting, the reason is that your washing machine doesn't work!

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 13 October 2006 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

I feel there is a metro headline here somewhere:

ANGER AT SOUTH LONDON KNICKER NICKERS

― Ed (dali), Friday, 13 October 2006 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

too many words. after they've been caught - KNICKER NICKERS NIXED!

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 13 October 2006 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

OK, if you don't mind doing mandolin shopping another time, then I can do my laundry on Saturday afternoon, and be at Paddington an hour or so earlier.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Friday, 13 October 2006 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

We can do mandolin shopping another time, perhaps after work one evenign next week, or I can take the plunge and get a troubadour bouzouki

― Ed (dali), Friday, 13 October 2006 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

OK, let's say 10, then. I can't get to Paddington in under an hour, it seems.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Friday, 13 October 2006 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

OK.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 13 October 2006 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

OK. I will texturise people with details (Emsk, Johnny B, you, Mark H). I think train around 10:30. I still don't have a route yet

― Ed (dali), Friday, 13 October 2006 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

I am actually quite excited about this! Has been way too long since proper country walking!

(OK, I did country walking on IoW, but not with, like, other people or anything.)

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Friday, 13 October 2006 16:47 (nineteen years ago)

OK, I am going to go and buy earplugs then try to see how much standing I can take at this thing.

Message me if there are any changes about the plans this weekend!

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Friday, 13 October 2006 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

Does anyone have any pictures of us at Aston Tirrold?

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 09:56 (nineteen years ago)

Emsk and Sande.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 09:58 (nineteen years ago)

Let's do that again soon, but possibly with less Brandy, monday was pretty ghastly.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 09:58 (nineteen years ago)

mine is on my phone and it won't come out of it. sande's are non-digital. what is up with you guys, did you drink a lot more than me or something? monday was FINE!

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 10:00 (nineteen years ago)

You don't get hangovers, Emsk. I was wretched on Monday. Brandy is not a nice thing to have to recover from.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 10:03 (nineteen years ago)

OMG. i do wake up feeling thirsty and salt-starved after a big night though, and yesterday i practically *bounced* out of bed at like 7am. maybe it is the extra 1hr cycle at each end of the day? gawd, i dunno.

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 10:57 (nineteen years ago)

I want to do more Ridgeway walking. I think the Ridgeway is just about the most perfect walking place that there is - people have been walking on it for thousands of years, so they must know what they are doing.

Plus, HILLFORTS.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 11:00 (nineteen years ago)

Hmm, I shall look at other accessible bits of the ridgeway. Princes Risborough to Wendover and VV look good.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 11:03 (nineteen years ago)

Can we go to GRIMMS DITCH, please?

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 11:03 (nineteen years ago)

this is grimms ditch in early may:

http://www.nationaltrail.co.uk/Ridgeway/images/gallery/244_g.jpg

I say we save it till then.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 11:10 (nineteen years ago)

That doesn't look grimm at all!

However, yes, it looks bloody lovely, let's go there when there are bluebells about.

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 11:13 (nineteen years ago)

Clearly, we need An Dog, as well:

http://www.trigpointinguk.com/photos/P13013.jpg

― Three In A Bed Socks Romp (kate), Tuesday, 17 October 2006 11:14 (nineteen years ago)

Whilst trundling through southall on the train yesterday. Emsk and I were musing on doing another Canal and curry walk possibly coinciding with Diwali. Uxbridge to Southall.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 23 October 2006 08:38 (nineteen years ago)

YES YES YES

er, wiki suggests diwali has already started.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divali

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 23 October 2006 08:46 (nineteen years ago)

And this time, I WILL come, I promise. I've been rubbish at walking and coming to get-together's and that, and this needs to be rectified.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Monday, 23 October 2006 08:51 (nineteen years ago)

lol at support of Diwali.

As this looks like actual proper London Walking in the London Walking thread, I am unreservedly in favour.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 23 October 2006 09:18 (nineteen years ago)

Divali goes on for at least a week, doesn't it?

I'm always up for walking. Especially if it involves curry in Southall. Mmmmmm, curry.

― Negative Mental Attitude (kate), Monday, 23 October 2006 09:38 (nineteen years ago)

It's five days, ending today. (I'm no expert, this is coming straight off that link).

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 23 October 2006 09:46 (nineteen years ago)

four weeks pass...
This Sunday - the Leamouth Lighthouse?

Any other takers?

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Monday, 20 November 2006 10:52 (eighteen years ago)

90% yes.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 20 November 2006 10:55 (eighteen years ago)

where zat?
yeh, quite possibly.

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 20 November 2006 10:59 (eighteen years ago)

EEEEZ 'ere

― Ed (dali), Monday, 20 November 2006 11:01 (eighteen years ago)

It is a *London* Rolling Walk. As suggested by Tony the British Librarian, who I am hoping will come if he's around.

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Monday, 20 November 2006 11:03 (eighteen years ago)

Where are we actually going to walk. I know the area fairly well and it's a devil of a maze of flyovers and dual carriageways round there.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 20 November 2006 11:05 (eighteen years ago)

26th, that sounds eminently doable.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 20 November 2006 11:44 (eighteen years ago)

ooh, where it says barrier on that, is that as in thames barrier? huzzah. might there be any chance of making this a circular walk, or nearly circular?

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 20 November 2006 12:53 (eighteen years ago)

Do not fall off the bottom of the board, thread!

We are walking! And rolling! And rolling walking!

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 10:42 (eighteen years ago)

Next time I go to London I am doing all the Hawksmoor churches. This might be more travelling by Tube rather than walking, but still.

I'm curious as to how feasibly you could, in one day, do the five pointed star in From Hell by public transport. Has anyone tried it?

― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 14:31 (eighteen years ago)

Apparently Bicycle is the way to do all the Hawksmoor Churches.

But I gave up halfway through because my bike riding is rub.

― Breaking Under The Crush (kate), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 14:32 (eighteen years ago)

I'm not really one for the bike, and I don't have one in London.

Great stupid things I have done # 47: On sunday, at 14.55 I was walking by the newly reopened St. George Bloomsbury Church, which featured a big sign saying "Free Guided Tour, 3.00pm". Instead of going in, I wandered off to the LRB bookshop. Duh.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 15:06 (eighteen years ago)

so! er... sunday. yes?

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 18:24 (eighteen years ago)

Yes! We agreed upon the route last night in the pub... hang on!

― Do Not Feed The Crush (kate), Thursday, 23 November 2006 10:53 (eighteen years ago)

Meet: 10am, East India (on the DLR, not the one with the curry)

We will walk to the Leamouth Lighthouse first. Then we will backtrack slightly to the Greenwich Foot Tunnel (I hope that if we approach it backwards, then The Fates will not realise I'm going there, and not strike me dead).

Walk along the Greenwich river front (possibly stopping for lunch at once of those lovely pubs along the river) around the dome, and out to the Thames Flood Barrier!

From there, we will walk on to Woolwich and possibly take the WOOLWICH FREE FERRY (or maybe even the subway, depending on how brave we are feeling about tunnels) to North Woolwich.

Ambitious? YES!

Who's in? Me, Tony (British Librarian), Emsk? Ed? Andrew?

― Do Not Feed The Crush (kate), Thursday, 23 November 2006 10:58 (eighteen years ago)

Tell me more about The Fates' issues with you. Are they likely to unleash sketetal soldiers, or just crush the tunnel and any innocent computer programmers in it?

Other than that, I'm totally up for it.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 23 November 2006 12:07 (eighteen years ago)

No, The Fates are only out to get me. And slam me with hideous vomitty illness or injure my back if I attempt to go on a Greenwich to Canary Wharf walk using that tunnel.

But I shall defy the Fates by going the other way. I hope.

― Do Not Feed The Crush (kate), Thursday, 23 November 2006 12:10 (eighteen years ago)

I should be in but I will review after another ferry crossing. I fear that this time it is my back about to give out.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 23 November 2006 13:25 (eighteen years ago)

Noooooooo!!! The Curse of the Greenwich Tunnel cannot claim another back!

Do your exercises, lie on the floor and all that. We must Fight Fate!

― Do Not Feed The Crush (kate), Thursday, 23 November 2006 13:26 (eighteen years ago)

yep, sounds good.

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 23 November 2006 13:41 (eighteen years ago)

If I have shaken the Cold I'll be present, or at least text on my SHINY NEW PHONE to convey my lack of ability to appear.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 23 November 2006 16:14 (eighteen years ago)

one month passes...
so er YEAH. we walking this sunday? when? where? i really don't have any ideas, at all, my brane is filled of sharks today, but i will request 1x decent climb as per.

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 4 January 2007 14:07 (eighteen years ago)

We are walking! Where are we walking? London or country? Ed, will you have An Car?

― Do Not Feed The Crush (kate), Thursday, 4 January 2007 14:11 (eighteen years ago)

country! while it is cold and crisp and brisk.

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 4 January 2007 14:12 (eighteen years ago)

Actually, I might come along this weekend, I've been rubbish recently with actually meeting up. On the other hand, I may chicken out. Can we walk in the country? The English countryside in cold winter makes me super-happy.

― Johnney B English (stigoftdump), Thursday, 4 January 2007 14:15 (eighteen years ago)

So long as it does not rain!

― Do Not Feed The Crush (kate), Thursday, 4 January 2007 14:19 (eighteen years ago)

YES exactly. went on a couple of walks over christmas and it was gorgeous - we were up in the top right corner of cumbria and it was freezy and gorgeous and all the mud was frozen so we didn't even get mucky and coming back down the hill through the woods the light was sharp bright yellow and slanty. and we met a wonkey.

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 4 January 2007 14:21 (eighteen years ago)

Alright, alright. I could only go with bus-walk-bus walks with mine mum to Crystal Palace and Wimbledon, so getting out of town might be good.

― Do Not Feed The Crush (kate), Thursday, 4 January 2007 14:22 (eighteen years ago)

In if nice weather.

Though the brandy might be a bit suss as Ed's meant to be Having A January.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 4 January 2007 14:27 (eighteen years ago)

No, no brandy, I'm doing a January, too. Though I might do my January like a Lent, and have Sundays off.

― Do Not Feed The Crush (kate), Thursday, 4 January 2007 14:29 (eighteen years ago)

ok, i'll do the brandy.

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 4 January 2007 14:32 (eighteen years ago)

I should be about with auto, max 5 including myself. Find somewhere unreachable, or difficult to reach by train. Let's leave the horny sculpture for a day with no car ( possibly till bluebell season again.

I'll try and reasearch a bit when I get back to the hotel.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 4 January 2007 14:37 (eighteen years ago)

Bluebell season! Oh yes please!

― Do Not Feed The Crush (kate), Thursday, 4 January 2007 14:44 (eighteen years ago)

nobodys prawn expressed an interest in attending the walk the other day, though she has yet to do a diary-check. how many of us does that make? (sharks kant kount)

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 4 January 2007 14:57 (eighteen years ago)

That would be 4 girls and me (5 girls).

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 4 January 2007 15:00 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, if it's max 5 and you're driving somewhere untrainable, I guess that excludes me . . . :(

― Johnney B English (stigoftdump), Thursday, 4 January 2007 15:03 (eighteen years ago)

might be bussable, or you could be picked up from a nearby station once the rest of us have been dropped off there.

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 4 January 2007 15:04 (eighteen years ago)

Ed, plz to stop with ridiculous conceit that you r girl ;-).

Hooray for walkies!

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 4 January 2007 15:10 (eighteen years ago)

Where is bussable an pleasant from oxford? Quainton rd? Chipping camden?

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 4 January 2007 15:23 (eighteen years ago)

Also, did johnny b ask first? We could ditch the motor vehicle in favour of the train.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 4 January 2007 15:24 (eighteen years ago)

I want to go in a car! I haven't been in one in ages! ::cries::

― Do Not Feed The Crush (kate), Thursday, 4 January 2007 15:25 (eighteen years ago)

some of us could train, some could car/bus... i have a network railcard now so can use trains without spending like £20 on a 45 minute journey.

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 4 January 2007 15:28 (eighteen years ago)

Forecast from BBC WeatherCentre says clouds but no rain for Sunday, Sat and Mon a drop of rain apparently.

How about doing what makes the most sense eg. Londoners in car to a point convenient for meeting JB?

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 4 January 2007 15:32 (eighteen years ago)

Suzy, it's more to do with the car being too small, as opposed to meeting place being too remote.

Just make plans, and I'll see if I can work with them. If not, no biggy, I'll just arrange an Oxford Tourist day/weekend for you guys to come down.

― Johnney B English (stigoftdump), Thursday, 4 January 2007 15:36 (eighteen years ago)

Is it time to get out my cat(tle) prod?

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 4 January 2007 15:40 (eighteen years ago)

The herding of cats is a serious matter
It isn't just one of those holiday games

― Do Not Feed The Crush (kate), Thursday, 4 January 2007 15:43 (eighteen years ago)

More Notes on the Herding of Cats, part 5494986.

Ed, I thought you had a larger car this time? Or are you only insured for five?

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 4 January 2007 15:43 (eighteen years ago)

If not, no biggy, I'll just arrange an Oxford Tourist day/weekend for you guys to come down.

could we do the river walk again only this time going north from the Trout rather than south?

― New Mark H (New MarkH), Thursday, 4 January 2007 15:44 (eighteen years ago)

teh prawn says she is IN but "please can we not walk in the dark for miles tho!"

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 4 January 2007 15:54 (eighteen years ago)

That means we must leave early. Which is OK - I only have a two day week next week so I don't have to do as much laundry so I can skip it on Sunday.

― Do Not Feed The Crush (kate), Thursday, 4 January 2007 15:55 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, how early?

― Johnney B English (stigoftdump), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:00 (eighteen years ago)

sunset must be, what, 4.15? if we do picnic lunch and pub at the end it means we can start later. um, that does make sense.

― emsk ( emsk), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:02 (eighteen years ago)

Also I need to be back in london by 6:30. Latest.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:14 (eighteen years ago)

Ugh, winter walking is so awkward, simply because anything that isn't London is a monumental task. (May I suggest leaving the oxford walk until a glorious summer's day)

― Johnney B English (stigoftdump), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:16 (eighteen years ago)

Johnney, how far is it from Wolvercote to Eynsham along the Thames d'you reckon? be quite easy to get the bus back into Oxford town from the Swinford toll bridge and then Ed could get back to London by 6.30.

Just coz Wolvercote is a short bus ride from Oxford town, as is Swinford.

― New Mark H (New MarkH), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:20 (eighteen years ago)

A plan, I like this as I have not come up with one.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:16 (eighteen years ago)

actually if we do this walk only backwards:

http://www.waterscape.com/River_Thames/walking/Thames_Path_5:_Eynsham_to_Oxford

then it totally negates the need to get a bus to Wolvercote, coz the Osney Bridge is a stone's throw from Oxford railway station.


― New Mark H (New MarkH), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:32 (eighteen years ago)

Eynsham to Oxford? Is that like the west country version of Eynsford to Otford?

Oh well. Please can we either decide plans today, or else you're going to have to message me because I don't have interweb access over the weekend.

― Do Not Feed The Crush (kate), Friday, 5 January 2007 12:40 (eighteen years ago)

Oxfordshire is SO not the West Country!

Quite happy to decide today, but I am feeling a little dicatorial. Are people happy with this? If so we can meet at Oxford station at a time which is convenient to you. The walk will take us past a couple of pubs we went to on the last Oxford walk (the Perch and the Trout) but only a small section of it is in common with that one (from central Oxford to Godstow Priory) and Port Meadow looks very different in winter.

― New Mark H (New MarkH), Friday, 5 January 2007 13:02 (eighteen years ago)

OK. I hope there are cows again!

Mmm, the perch and the trout. Maybe I'll do a Lenten January and have Sundays off, as how can I go to those pubs and not drink?

― Do Not Feed The Crush (kate), Friday, 5 January 2007 13:13 (eighteen years ago)

what time do you think you can get to Oxford?

― New Mark H (New MarkH), Friday, 5 January 2007 13:32 (eighteen years ago)

are any of us going by non-car? i am confus-ed.

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 5 January 2007 15:54 (eighteen years ago)

I can be anywhere in London by about 10am. Where shall we meet? Just descend on Ed's house?

― Do Not Feed The Crush (kate), Friday, 5 January 2007 15:59 (eighteen years ago)

er yeah i can be wherever for 10 too. possibly 9.30.

― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 5 January 2007 16:13 (eighteen years ago)

So... uh, unless someone else posts something else by about 6.30pm today - or else someone is kind enough to text me over the weekend... I'm assuming we;re turning up at Ed's house for 10?

― Do Not Feed The Crush (kate), Friday, 5 January 2007 17:15 (eighteen years ago)

Sounds like a plan.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 5 January 2007 18:58 (eighteen years ago)

ANOTHER ONE ANOTHER ONE ANOTHER ONE

one with some incline to go up PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 15 January 2007 11:50 (eighteen years ago)

I am in far too bad a shape to do inclines at the moment. I am huffing and puffing just walking from City Thameslink to work. :-(

― The Long Grey And Overcast Tea Time Of The Soul (kate), Monday, 15 January 2007 11:54 (eighteen years ago)

IT WILL MAEK YOU IN GOOD SHAEP

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 15 January 2007 11:58 (eighteen years ago)

This does not happen instantly. It may give me a HEART ATTACK if I do not gently work up my fitness. Which I am trying to do by walking up Sunny Hill again, but I never get out of bed in time.

― The Long Grey And Overcast Tea Time Of The Soul (kate), Monday, 15 January 2007 11:59 (eighteen years ago)

I still want to do Uffington. However, it is the least public transportt friendly place ever - no buses AT ALL on Sundays.

did you ever do the Richmond Park walk? I seem to remeber ppl discussing it; what I *can't* remember is if other ppl made it there and I had to miss it....

― New Mark H (New MarkH), Monday, 15 January 2007 12:00 (eighteen years ago)

i def didn't do richmond. A friend just mailed me this:

I have been planning a London walk from Islington to Beckton which takes in the course of the Northern Outfall Sewer, one of Bazalgette's Victorian sanitation marvels. Years ago they created a strange park along its course called the Greenway which cuts through bleak and surreal east London and finishes at Becton, the most bleak and surreal place in London.

sounds good, non?

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 15 January 2007 12:03 (eighteen years ago)

Yes! The Bazalgette sewer is a v. v. good walk!

We didn't do Richmond. We did the horse at Uffington on our way back from Truck, though.

― The Long Grey And Overcast Tea Time Of The Soul (kate), Monday, 15 January 2007 12:05 (eighteen years ago)

Tony will probably want to go on that one, too.

― The Long Grey And Overcast Tea Time Of The Soul (kate), Monday, 15 January 2007 12:06 (eighteen years ago)

Oooh no, I'm not inclined to do hills like that at all (see wot I did there?), I think we all need some more practise before then. I need to buy some decent walking boots/shoes as well!

― Johnney B English (stigoftdump), Monday, 15 January 2007 12:09 (eighteen years ago)

OH FFS YOU LOT HOW DO YOU PRACTISE WALKING UP HILLS OTHER THAN BY WALKING UP HILLS?

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 15 January 2007 12:17 (eighteen years ago)

Practise being the key. Not suddenly out of nowhere going on a massive hike up a hill!

― The Long Grey And Overcast Tea Time Of The Soul (kate), Monday, 15 January 2007 12:19 (eighteen years ago)

I walk up a hill every day to work - it's a pretty wimpy Oxford hill tho.

― New Mark H (New MarkH), Monday, 15 January 2007 12:22 (eighteen years ago)

who said anything about massive? i'm not talking scafell pike here. maybe like pentonville rdx2 or 3?

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 15 January 2007 12:26 (eighteen years ago)

Johnney's shoes are laughing at you:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/160/355530077_73ec0ceb62.jpg

― The Long Grey And Overcast Tea Time Of The Soul (kate), Monday, 15 January 2007 12:52 (eighteen years ago)

Where did that come from? Eeep!

― Johnney B English (stigoftdump), Monday, 15 January 2007 12:57 (eighteen years ago)

it looks like you have a BURGER FOR A FOOT.

― New Mark H (New MarkH), Monday, 15 January 2007 12:58 (eighteen years ago)

You mean the rise is x2/3? Is it like Penton Rise (that one from Pentonville Road down to Kings Cross Road)?

Went walking around Hampstead Heath yesterday, it was quite nice (if you don't mind the muck and cold). Probably the biggest forest I've ever been in.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 15 January 2007 13:01 (eighteen years ago)

no, i mean like a hill that's equivalent to 2 or 3 pentonville roads. and no, i don't mean penton rise, i mean pentonville road.

muck and cold RULES.

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 15 January 2007 13:21 (eighteen years ago)

I like muck and cold, so long as I can have a drink in a pub and a wash in a bath.

― Johnney B English (stigoftdump), Monday, 15 January 2007 13:33 (eighteen years ago)

There is that lovely haunted pub at the top of the Heath as well. The Spaniards or whatever it's called.

― The Long Grey And Overcast Tea Time Of The Soul (kate), Monday, 15 January 2007 13:34 (eighteen years ago)

SPANIARDS! yes.

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 15 January 2007 13:42 (eighteen years ago)

"I'd like a roast dinner without the roast, please!"

― The Long Grey And Overcast Tea Time Of The Soul (kate), Monday, 15 January 2007 13:44 (eighteen years ago)

Can we visit more Country Houses, please? And I don't mean Kenwood. Come on, the Penshurst Place walk was great, can we go to Hever Castle or somewhere like that? Even Hampton Court Palace - the grounds are free to get in this time of year and they have STAGS.

― The Long Grey And Overcast Tea Time Of The Soul (kate), Monday, 15 January 2007 14:03 (eighteen years ago)

I'm up for walking in the ground of a country house, that might be fun. Esp. if there's a FOREST!

― Johnney B English (stigoftdump), Monday, 15 January 2007 14:10 (eighteen years ago)

I didn't think you meant Penton Rise, just that it's 2/3 times the gradient, if that's what you did mean.

More country, less Country Life, please.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 15 January 2007 14:39 (eighteen years ago)

What about a MAZE?!?!? I didn't go in the Hampton Court Palace maze as it was nearly closing time, but I'd like to go in if there's a gang of us.

― The Long Grey And Overcast Tea Time Of The Soul (kate), Monday, 15 January 2007 14:40 (eighteen years ago)

country houses - yep, fine, stags, YES, forest, YES, maze, yep, i don't care really so long as it feels like i've actually DONE SOMETHING at the end of the day.

2/3 times the gradient? oh, i don't care. so long as it's 2/3 times as big.

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 15 January 2007 14:42 (eighteen years ago)

I was planning on going back to Hampton Court Palace by myself anyway this coming weekend. It's not really a long walk, but just to get back in the walking habit. Plus, I like the ride on the 57.

― The Long Grey And Overcast Tea Time Of The Soul (kate), Monday, 15 January 2007 14:46 (eighteen years ago)

Or maybe I will go to the V&A instead. I don't know.

― The Long Grey And Overcast Tea Time Of The Soul (kate), Monday, 15 January 2007 15:03 (eighteen years ago)

ok! i have a plan. it is a very simple one. i am going to walk up box hill. i have never been to box hill, but someone told me a few years ago it was a big steep climb. the person who told me that wasn't very fit (er neither am i really), but it's still probably a bit more fun than a flat walk. also it looks *gorgeous*:

http://www.friendlink.org.uk/gallery2/d/7779-2/DSCF0001.JPG

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 12:40 (eighteen years ago)

bah

http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-054987_box_hill.jpg

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 12:42 (eighteen years ago)

better :)

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 12:42 (eighteen years ago)

It's the wrong time of year for bluebells!

I'd be interested in going up Box Hill - I think it's quite Austenian. People are always going up it in various lugubrious Victorian novels, so it sounds good to me.

Can't do the 27th, though. The weekend after, maybe?

― The Long Grey And Overcast Tea Time Of The Soul (kate), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 12:43 (eighteen years ago)

yeh maybe. i am meant to be going dancing on the saturday (3rd) but that doesn't mean walking is out, either for the saturday or sunday.

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 13:14 (eighteen years ago)

What kind of dancing? You won't want to do anything strenuous after going up a hill, will you? Then again the 2nd is Poptimism, so I may not want to be climbing up hills after going dancing.

How about the weekend after that? Or is that too late?

― The Long Grey And Overcast Tea Time Of The Soul (kate), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 13:39 (eighteen years ago)

I'd be interested provided it's clearly a walk rather than a climb. I'm free on the 27th, busy every Saturday after that forever. On the other hand, I'm free every Sunday, including the next day.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 13:49 (eighteen years ago)

But understand, Andrew, a walk to us means stopping to look at interesting things, admiring views, detours, pubs. etc. - it is not a race to get there and back as quick as possible.

Isn't there a teashop on top of Box Hill, or only in my imagination and/or Thomas Hardy novels?

― The Long Grey And Overcast Tea Time Of The Soul (kate), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 13:56 (eighteen years ago)

dancing isn't strenuous, it's fun. as is going up a hill.

and yes, a walk includes pubs, pissing around, climbing on/up/over/through/under anything that looks a bit fun and precarious, ooh-lookit-that-funny-thing-over-there-let's-investigate.

there is some kind of national trust visitor centre thingy on top of box hill, so i am expecting to be able to purchase a cream tea.

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 13:58 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, I have been looking at the NT site, there is a teashop.

OK, I give up, I just want to do one of These Jane Austen Themed Walks.

Aha! Stourhead! I knew I knew it, but could not remember which house it was. (Sorry, was watching P&P again last night, lying under a duvet like Bridget Jones.)

― The Long Grey And Overcast Tea Time Of The Soul (kate), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 13:59 (eighteen years ago)

I want to go to Groombridge as well for Austenian gooeyness. (Yes, I am pathetic. I know.)

― The Long Grey And Overcast Tea Time Of The Soul (kate), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 14:01 (eighteen years ago)

I think you've both misinterpreted my 'walk rather than a climb', which was just checking that hands will at no point be required.

Though I have in turn misinterpreted 'this isn't a london rolling drinking psychogeographers walk; this is me climbing up box hill' as meaning something less stop-and-start. It's not the interesting things that I mind so much as the delusion that pubs are interesting.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 14:04 (eighteen years ago)

Ohmigod, go and look at the gardens of Groombridge. They have a peacock! And a knot garden! And a SECRET GARDEn. OOH OOH OOH, AND THE DRAUGHTSMANS CONTRACT WAS FILMED THERE, TOO!!! Plus a "Drunken Garden" - hurrah!

Please can we have a walk here? Please? There is a steam train from Tunbridge Wells, as well, to make Ed happy!

― The Long Grey And Overcast Tea Time Of The Soul (kate), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 14:06 (eighteen years ago)

eh, if you've got that attitude, don't come! (er, xpost)

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 14:06 (eighteen years ago)

Tunbridge Wells has the lowest teenage pregnancy rate of any town in Britain. I don't know how I know this.

― New Mark H (New MarkH), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 14:09 (eighteen years ago)

Oh noes! You hate Austen! (kidding.)

Actually, I find that country pubs are generally interesting, even when I'm not drinking. They usually have interesting architecture, and nice people in them. (Especially if one goes with the PRS.)

― The Long Grey And Overcast Tea Time Of The Soul (kate), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 14:10 (eighteen years ago)

however, if you can ditch that attitude, hands will not be required, except for the picking up of interesting objets, the slapping of your friends when they make rude comments about you, and the lifting of glass from table to mouth.

my wanting my walk to include a climb just means i want a bit of elevation, bc a lot of the joy i get from walking comes from a) that feeling at the end of the day that i've Done Something, i can feel all the blood whizzing around my legs and i'm all rejuvenated and buzzy and good-tired, and b) being up somewhere high, looking back at the view and feeling "i did that! i got up here, with my legs walking me up". and you just don't get that on a flat walk. you may get the former if you do a really looong one, but we never do because we need to spend time in the pub. ok?

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 14:10 (eighteen years ago)

I can do inclines if I know they are going somewhere - it's those endless tiring inclines that never have an end in sight that bother me (and mine ankles). Especially since Box Hill has been renowned for views for centuries.

Can we go to one of the Austen houses? Can we can we can we?

OK, I will have to accept that there will not be riotous early 18th C. country dancing and brooding Mr Darcies too proud to dance, but still... a girl can dream.

http://www.scriptfactory.co.uk/imageLibrary/jpeg150/1186.jpg

― The Long Grey And Overcast Tea Time Of The Soul (kate), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 14:15 (eighteen years ago)

Somehow my interest in this is decreasing.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 14:17 (eighteen years ago)

Well, if you're going to be all moody and broody about it, here, let Mr Darcy show you how to mood and brood properly:

http://cleobulle.perso.cegetel.net/prideandprejudice/pics/pain.JPG

HE BROODS!!!

http://europeanfilms.net/images/matthewmcfayden.jpg

HE MOODS!!!

But teasing girls still prefer walking up muddy hills, even in the rains.

― The Long Grey And Overcast Tea Time Of The Soul (kate), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 14:20 (eighteen years ago)

oh, and the bit about it not being a rolling drinking psychogeography walk was just meant to end the FITE about whether the next lrdps walka`aqa would have a hill or not, since this is something i am doing, not something that's debatable.

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 14:33 (eighteen years ago)

We can do this walk up a hill, and then the next proper PRS can be an Austenian Country House in Kent with lovely gardens, like I was suggesting before.

― The Long Grey And Overcast Tea Time Of The Soul (kate), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 14:34 (eighteen years ago)

That's fine, I just think it was a reasonable interpretation to think you were suggesting a more straight-on walk.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 14:49 (eighteen years ago)

There will never be a walk involving us that does not involve diversions and pubs.

― The Long Grey And Overcast Tea Time Of The Soul (kate), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 14:51 (eighteen years ago)

Definatelu up for a groombridge, steam train, austen harrissons rocks walk.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 14:57 (eighteen years ago)

why do you prefer a walk that's just a straight-on walk? might as well walk round and round your living room for five hours if it's not to do with the sights and smells and surprises. and pubs.

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 15:02 (eighteen years ago)

Well, for one thing, a straight-on walk has plenty of sights and smells and surprises, it just doesn't have the pubs, which makes an enormous difference as regards it being the difference between a day-long outing and something that you can do and still get other stuff done the same day.

And for another, you're putting words in my mouth there, it'd be like me asking why you prefer uphill walks, when you've made it clear that you like both types, but we only ever do one not the other.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 15:16 (eighteen years ago)

Some people enjoy the idea of a walk as a day's outing, an event. It's not just something to be slotted in before your other social committments - it *is* the social committment in and of itself. It's as much about the company as it is the walk and the sights and discoveries. I like to take my time and not feel hurried - except by weather and nightfall and other natural occurances.

Would you complain about pubs being part of other experiences? "Oh noes, how can I go to this gig - it will be in A PUB!" So why complain about pub-going being a part of country walks? Especially when one needs fortification on long walks. (Which is usually more about the food than the drink anyway. I don't like to get drunk on walks as it hinders the walking.)

― The Long Grey And Overcast Tea Time Of The Soul (kate), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 15:29 (eighteen years ago)

Let's have a short list of things I'm not saying, shall we?

. This should be a non-pub walk.
. We should go on a non-pub walk.
. Everyone should like non-pub walks.
. Kate would be happy on a non-pub walk.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 15:35 (eighteen years ago)

I'm not sure what you are saying.

― New Mark H (New MarkH), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 15:41 (eighteen years ago)

http://img117.exs.cx/img117/9267/darcy29ie.jpghttp://img125.exs.cx/img125/1558/darcy62yf.jpg

― The Long Grey And Overcast Tea Time Of The Soul (kate), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 15:44 (eighteen years ago)

Oooh, moody broody oh yes:

http://www.workingtitlefilms.com/downloads/images/darcyScreensaverLarge.jpg

Look! In the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Dirty Dronerock Mr. Darcy!

http://img472.imageshack.us/img472/4117/darcy57pg.jpg

― The Long Grey And Overcast Tea Time Of The Soul (kate), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 15:45 (eighteen years ago)

Argh, WTF? It stripped out my comments on the first two?

― The Long Grey And Overcast Tea Time Of The Soul (kate), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 15:47 (eighteen years ago)

Oh! And this is very much the wrong thread. Ooops.

I was trying so hard to be good... :-(

― The Long Grey And Overcast Tea Time Of The Soul (kate), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 15:48 (eighteen years ago)

Oh that's okay. I was worried that you'd gone back to your old ways. "I longer wish to discuss this, Thermonuclear Darcy in T minus three, two.."

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 15:51 (eighteen years ago)

Well, when you put it like that, maybe I wish I were.

I'm sure there are other walking groups that would accomodate your walking wishes. But this one likes things the way that they are.

― The Long Grey And Overcast Tea Time Of The Soul (kate), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 15:53 (eighteen years ago)

Kate OTM.

― New Mark H (New MarkH), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 15:54 (eighteen years ago)

ARGH

. This should be a non-pub walk.
. We should go on a non-pub walk.
. Everyone should like non-pub walks.
. Kate would be happy on a non-pub walk.

Add: I prefer non-pub walks.

I'm not sure what you are saying.

I'm answering Emsk's question regarding the sort of walk that I mistook this one for.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 15:59 (eighteen years ago)

one month passes...
I can't find my London walking thread in the sandbox, so I can't C+P it's contents to here, so...

Sunday 11th March
Palmers Green to Capel Manor

meet @ Palmers Green railway station 11.30

stopping off in olde Enfield Towne for lunch.

― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 23 February 2007 11:50 (eighteen years ago)

Hurrah! It is in my diary.

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 23 February 2007 11:51 (eighteen years ago)

great!

― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 23 February 2007 11:54 (eighteen years ago)

That could be good for me, too. Hooray for North London.

― suzy, Friday, 23 February 2007 14:04 (eighteen years ago)

it are in mine too.

― emsk, Friday, 23 February 2007 14:08 (eighteen years ago)

bump

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 5 March 2007 09:58 (eighteen years ago)

Can't make it this weekend, but we were thinking about March 24th or 25th for the next one, probably in sussex.

― Ed, Monday, 5 March 2007 10:02 (eighteen years ago)

shame you can't make it Ed - I am just about to send an email about it to possibly interested parties so will take yr name off it.

the great thing abt the New River is that there are at least four more potential walks along other sections of it!

Sussex sounds good.

― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 5 March 2007 10:05 (eighteen years ago)

Walking! Hurrah! Only problem is Night of the Long Swords is the night before and I may be in a bit of Alkyhell.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 5 March 2007 10:51 (eighteen years ago)

walking will help rescue you from alkyhell. as will stopping at some pubs.

― emsk, Monday, 5 March 2007 11:08 (eighteen years ago)

bump

― emsk, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 14:27 (eighteen years ago)

http://fancyapint.com/pubpics/pic2275.jpg

possibly pub for lunch, the Wheatsheaf on Windmill Hill, Enfield.

http://www.fancyapint.com/main_site/thepubs/pub2275.html

― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 14:36 (eighteen years ago)

PURTY

― emsk, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 14:38 (eighteen years ago)

er this isn't gonna go on into the latenite is it? i am going to see NIN at brixton academy. (excited!)

― emsk, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 14:41 (eighteen years ago)

Ooh, I need to write this down in my diary today, in case I end up getting chopped up tomorrow and cannot access the interweb.

What zone is Palmers Green? Do I need to buy an extension if I have a Zone 3 travelcard?

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 14:51 (eighteen years ago)

No, Zone 4. Bloody typical, etc.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 14:54 (eighteen years ago)

This is THIS w/e everyone!!!

:: jumps up and down in an excitable fashion::

― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 9 March 2007 14:09 (eighteen years ago)

yo yo yo. ed! what are we doing on saturday? where are we going? or actually, it doesn't matter where we're going, but where/when are we meeting? charlie no 4 was possibly organising a bunch of people to go to brighton who might potentially be interested in doing it this way instead.

and will it SNOW?

― emsk, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 09:50 (eighteen years ago)

Do they want to go to brighton after the walk. I kind of want to be back in LDN for TSDOLE. OR should we do sunday?

― Ed, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 10:00 (eighteen years ago)

Apologies for not actually sorting anything yesterday, my brain was mush.

― Ed, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 10:02 (eighteen years ago)

i don't mind saturday or sunday. depends on trains i suppose. if there are the right number of us some can hang out in brighton and some can go back to london.

― emsk, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 10:09 (eighteen years ago)

If we are going to do the coast then we should do sunday and get an early start as it is a long journey. ?And Kent coast better than sussex as it is closer and cheaper. We need to do that book a week in advance for the fiver rover ticket for sussex.

The groombridge to Tunbridge wells steam train rocks and austen walk isn't possible at the moment for the same reason we had to do that detour on saturday.

So Kent Coast, or something else I can cook up. There was the kent sound sculpture thingy.

― Ed, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 10:25 (eighteen years ago)

I thought we were doing this on Sunday - that's what's in my diary!

What is wrong that there is a detour that prevents us doing Austen country? Waaahhh!!!

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 10:44 (eighteen years ago)

They are replacing the bridges on the railway line (as we found out having to make a backtrack and a detour), we will be able to do it once the line is not out of action on the weekends.

― Ed, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 10:46 (eighteen years ago)

Boo hoo. Though by sound sculpture, do you mean that symphony in a hole thing? I'd love to see/hear that.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 10:49 (eighteen years ago)

where is the link to the kent sound art thingy.

― Ed, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 10:51 (eighteen years ago)

DON'T CALL IT SOUND ART. I HATE SOUND ART!!!!

Upthread... somewhere.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 10:53 (eighteen years ago)

found it


musical automaton in a hole?

― Ed, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 10:54 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, that's better.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 10:56 (eighteen years ago)

If we do that it will be a stout ramble and we will need to set off fairly early.

― Ed, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 10:58 (eighteen years ago)

Will we be able to get to London Bridge by 10am?

― Ed, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 11:06 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, London Bridge is easy for me. Stout ramble... eep. Better stock up on brandy.

Ugh, this means I have to do my laundry on Saturday morning, though, which I hate, as the laundrette is always so crowded.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 11:09 (eighteen years ago)

FIX YOUR BLOODY WASHING MACHINE!!

; )

― emsk, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 11:51 (eighteen years ago)

I *LIKE* the Laundrette!

(I am the anti-Neil.)

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 11:53 (eighteen years ago)

So are we going to say London Bridge 10am sunday?

― Ed, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 11:53 (eighteen years ago)

bleargh. in theory i have zero problem with 10am sunday, but i fear i am getting LURGEE (just a sore throat atm but y'know) and if i have LURGEE i will want to stay in bed until it's summer.

― emsk, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 11:55 (eighteen years ago)

If you think you are coming down with the lurgee, goto bed and stay there. Don't carry on going out and drinking and smoking and shouting in people's ears till the wee hours like you do.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 11:56 (eighteen years ago)

i'm not shouting and smoking! i was IN MY HOUSE all last night watching BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN.

― emsk, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 11:58 (eighteen years ago)

OMG CLOCKS GO BACK 10AM POSSIBLY NOT BRILLIANT IDEA

― emsk, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 12:23 (eighteen years ago)

ARGH ARGH ARGH, no, clocks going back, call everything off. Or at least put it back at least an hour.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 12:25 (eighteen years ago)

OK 11am will work, as we will get an hour extra light at the end of the day.

― Ed, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 12:25 (eighteen years ago)

END TIMES

― emsk, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 12:25 (eighteen years ago)

CONFUSEMENT!!!

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 12:26 (eighteen years ago)

(haha we are all so freaked by the concept of getting up 1hr earlier on a weekend...)

― emsk, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 12:52 (eighteen years ago)

But daylight savings and the clocks going back are like EXPERIENCING JET LAG WITHOUT LEAVING YOUR HOME!!! So wrong!

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 13:19 (eighteen years ago)

I have been waking up in time for farming today most mornings so I have no issues.

― Ed, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 14:12 (eighteen years ago)

can someone pls email charlie no 4 about walking this w/e, he has a posse wants to come but i don't have time gotta go to work and no mucking about on teh internets for me today.

― emsk, Thursday, 22 March 2007 09:16 (eighteen years ago)

CAn someone send me his email and I will do so.

― Ed, Thursday, 22 March 2007 09:33 (eighteen years ago)

I have webmailed charlie. Hope he gets it.

10:40am meeting peeps, train is at 11:03.

― Ed, Thursday, 22 March 2007 13:42 (eighteen years ago)

ARGH ARGH ARGH, no, clocks going back, call everything off. Or at least put it back at least an hour.

um. clocks go FORWARD, no? i mean, yes, we lose an hour, but anyway. for clarity.

i don't think i can do this :-( although i will definitely be in b-righton on saturday.

― CharlieNo4, Thursday, 22 March 2007 15:20 (eighteen years ago)

That was the best walk in ages.

Having A QUEST (otherwise known as wandering around a wood completely lost looking for the Sound Art) is a brilliant idea, allows for lots of meanderings and going off to look at the amazing trees.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 26 March 2007 09:50 (eighteen years ago)

when i got home i forgot to wash my muddy foot and there was all mud in the shower this morning. that foot feels nice though.

― emsk, Monday, 26 March 2007 12:07 (eighteen years ago)

I did not realise until after I'd got on the train that it was going to Streatham Common which is MILES form my house and there is only one bus back. Intead of Streatham Hill which is close to me house and there are like 10 different busses that go to mine. Bah.

But part from that (and the sting right on my 12-string callus) it was great.

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 26 March 2007 12:09 (eighteen years ago)

what stinged you?

i was going to put pics up this morning but i could not find anything that will let me take them from a camera or a phone and put them on a computer.

― emsk, Monday, 26 March 2007 12:26 (eighteen years ago)

I don't know, probably a nettle. I pulled out a dry bit of a twig to shred, and it stung me.

I hope my spider got home OK, but I suspect she may have got off at Victoria Station, as I didn't see her in the bag when I got home. It was pretty dark, though. Put the Rosemary outside, shook the bag and hoped for the best.

Oh noes, no pictures of Emsk up a tree! Ed has this trick where he waves the phone near a Mac and it picks them up by bluetooth (it was very hard not to write magic) and displays them. Does your phone have bluetooth?

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 26 March 2007 12:32 (eighteen years ago)

yes. hmm. i will try that.

― emsk, Monday, 26 March 2007 12:34 (eighteen years ago)

don't work, i need the password for the computer and it's not mine, i am being someone else again today who i haven't been before.

― emsk, Monday, 26 March 2007 12:42 (eighteen years ago)

some pics from the new river walk a few weeks back.

twee-est street name:
http://flickr.com/photos/97388357@N00/435655840/

spring has finally sprung:
http://flickr.com/photos/97388357@N00/435655860/

― emsk, Monday, 26 March 2007 23:02 (eighteen years ago)

oh.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/43/435655840_b54a923e61.jpg?v=0

― emsk, Monday, 26 March 2007 23:03 (eighteen years ago)

spring etc -

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/146/435655860_dfcfa4dca4.jpg?v=0

DUCKS!

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/155/435655876_f49e895954.jpg?v=0

― emsk, Monday, 26 March 2007 23:04 (eighteen years ago)

ok this was a ride not a walk but i walked from one side of the road to the other to take the picture:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/176/435655884_013d4c5de2.jpg?v=0

BRIGHT
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/74/435655886_290e16fcc1.jpg?v=0

― emsk, Monday, 26 March 2007 23:05 (eighteen years ago)

ed liked this house:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/149/435655890_91e0d81fc7.jpg?v=0

i liked this signpost:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/173/435678866_c733cfeeaa.jpg?v=0

― emsk, Monday, 26 March 2007 23:14 (eighteen years ago)

1x happy foot
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/128/435669525_3eb93c7c90.jpg?v=0

the pub's just around the next corner... 500 yards... no, honest. this time, it was.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/180/435678858_49b69f4efd.jpg?v=0

― emsk, Monday, 26 March 2007 23:17 (eighteen years ago)

dead deer
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/148/435669519_53dfec1825.jpg?v=0

i like this
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/174/435669507_aad008783c.jpg?v=0

― emsk, Monday, 26 March 2007 23:18 (eighteen years ago)

and this
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/181/435669491_6b9cdde339.jpg?v=0

― emsk, Monday, 26 March 2007 23:19 (eighteen years ago)

Mountains!

I like the chimneys on that house of Ed's.

Did anyone take a picture of the Hazel Seat?

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 10:05 (eighteen years ago)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/147/435669511_ca708bc781.jpg?v=0

― emsk, Tuesday, 27 March 2007 14:35 (eighteen years ago)

three weeks pass...
Bluebells? Anyone for bluebells?

I'll have my hand in a sling, but that don't mean I can't rolling walk!

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 23 April 2007 10:34 (eighteen years ago)

BLUEBELLS

― emsk, Monday, 23 April 2007 11:46 (eighteen years ago)

is this about geri halliwell's daughter?

― CharlieNo4, Monday, 23 April 2007 13:38 (eighteen years ago)

DAUGHTER?!?

― emsk, Monday, 23 April 2007 13:43 (eighteen years ago)

oh wait, is it a son? bluebell madonna halliwell is a BOY? holy shit, she's madder than i thought.

― CharlieNo4, Monday, 23 April 2007 14:11 (eighteen years ago)

SON?!?

― emsk, Monday, 23 April 2007 14:12 (eighteen years ago)

Ginger Spice has a kid. This has nothing to do with that. I want to go on a rolling walk now that the bluebells are out. Where are some good easily accessible woods?

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 23 April 2007 14:22 (eighteen years ago)

eight months pass...

It's been too long.

I propose a walk from Palmers Green to Stoke Newington along the New River, passing Ally Pally en route.

Sunday 17th February looks good to me.

What say you?

― Grandpont Genie, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 09:09 (seventeen years ago)

I approve of this plan.

In the future, I would also like to go to Hampton Court Palace (while it's still winter and the grounds are free to get into) and also to look for the Cissbury Rings, somewhere on the Sarf Downs? What say you good rolling walking people?

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 9 January 2008 16:23 (seventeen years ago)

four weeks pass...

bump!

Sunday 17th

I suggest we meet at Palmers Green station at midday on Sunday 17th.

Palmers Green is on the First Capital Connect line from Moorgate via Finsbury Park. Alternatively you can get the Piccadilly line to Turnpike Lane or Wood Green, from which buses 121, 141 or 329 will take you there:

Google map is here: http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ie=UTF-8&q=station&near=Palmers+Green,+Enfield&fb=1&cid=51618152,-110377,13159054984307713109&li=lmd&z=14&t=m

Should be a good walk as it takes up past Ally Pally and the Harringay Ladder. It is at Clissold Park, at the end of the walk, that the "river" disappears underground.

There is a Sunday Market in the Car Park of PG Station which you might like to visit if you arrive early.

Plan?

― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 8 February 2008 11:59 (seventeen years ago)

one month passes...

SATURDAY WALK!!! on 12th April.

Special Kate's Birthday walk featuring WOODS and GRIMS DITCH and possibly IRON AGE HILL FORT.

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 3 April 2008 15:23 (seventeen years ago)


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