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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)

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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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