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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2019 12:39:55 GMT
Right - I've got a new Gene Wolfe podcast to listen to, so I'm off to Crystal Palace on the no 3 bus, then the 249 towards Streatham and Clapham, then I don't know what.
It's partly to try a new route out of Streatham, along a road I have never been on before. I may be some time.
Just follow the Yellow Brick Road
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Post by rondetto on Aug 11, 2019 13:57:28 GMT
This is the new wall recess and fire
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Post by aubrey on Aug 11, 2019 15:52:29 GMT
Right - I've got a new Gene Wolfe podcast to listen to, so I'm off to Crystal Palace on the no 3 bus, then the 249 towards Streatham and Clapham, then I don't know what. It's partly to try a new route out of Streatham, along a road I have never been on before. I may be some time.
Just read about some guy who's going to ride on every bus route in London.....it's not you is it Aubrey?
It sounds like a good thing to do, but it's not me.
The new road out of Streatham wasn't that good - well, the road was ok, but it left me at an alighting only bus stop in Clapham, and I've never like that area anyway - I knew it was going to Clapham, but I didn't see anywhere I could get off earlier and come back here with no trouble. I ended up getting the 88 and then the 344 from Vauxhall. Tired now.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2019 17:10:53 GMT
Love those fires inset into the wall Ron
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2019 17:14:22 GMT
Aub you are very brave, all we hear about is knife crime in those areas, and verbal or physical abuse on public transport Always baffled me years ago in London with my mother when we were travelling from A to B she would say "we'll get a number so and so bus from here" and true enough along it came. All this despite not living in London for 30 odd years
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Post by rondetto on Aug 11, 2019 18:11:09 GMT
True Jimmy, I spent a lot of time in the smoke when I was younger, used the tube, Green line buses etc getting about. I wouldn't like to do all that again today though.
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Post by aubrey on Aug 11, 2019 19:18:05 GMT
Aub you are very brave, all we hear about is knife crime in those areas, and verbal or physical abuse on public transport Always baffled me years ago in London with my mother when we were travelling from A to B she would say "we'll get a number so and so bus from here" and true enough along it came. All this despite not living in London for 30 odd years
I've never seen anything like that, and I've only ever felt unsafe in London once, at a bus stop one afternoon in about 1981, and that came to nothing. I feel safer in London than I do in Gainsborough (where I lived in the 70s), and I also think London is much safer now than when we moved here: but that could be because I know it better now.
I was once with my sister on The Strand. We were going to Covent Garden, and I thought we'd go up one of the alleys beside a theatre. She said, "We can't go up there!" And when I said it was all right (this was about 11AM), she pointed out a man who was hanging about further up the alley. I told her he worked in the theatre and was just having a fag break, and we carried on past him.
But she was only scared because she doesn't know the place. She lives in Lincoln, and I'd be worried there - I once got beaten up on my way to see The Damned and The Adverts at the Drill Hall, and I've not felt safe there since then, at night anyway.
The buses have changed a bit over the years, but the core routes are pretty much the same as they ever were; we've always lived on the 12 route - first in Shepherd's Bush, now in Lambeth - and thought it doesn't go to the west and far south any more the main part of it is unchanged. Most of them are the same; the routes are usually shorter now (the old 12 route used to take 4 hours), but you'd be able to get about ok using knowledge from 30-40 years ago.
It's worth going down to Crystal Palace on the bus though; those radio masts have a great sense of 30s SF, and the bit of the park where the Palace itself stood always reminds me of a HG Wells scientific romance - old, or else many years in the future (like the place where he lands in The Time Machine). I really love the central/easterly bit of South London, generally.
This is a poster for the Damned/Adverts concert:
I saw it (the people I was with went back to the car). It was good, though scary.
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Post by rondetto on Aug 12, 2019 3:46:19 GMT
Morning all: Noticeably darker and cooler these mornings, more like autumn than summer.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2019 9:47:56 GMT
Morning everyone, sunny but promise of occasional showers
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Post by rondetto on Aug 13, 2019 3:46:42 GMT
Morning all: Very cold this morning, more like Autumn than mid August.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2019 8:33:21 GMT
Morning all, raining - not forecast
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Post by rondetto on Aug 13, 2019 18:06:40 GMT
Been quite nice though through the day, managed to dry all the washing on the line and all ironed and away now. Tomorrow looks an awful day if the forecast is right.
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Post by rondetto on Aug 14, 2019 3:46:29 GMT
Morning all: Heavy rain over night and it looks like it's in for at least all morning.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2019 9:04:54 GMT
Morning all, horrible drizzle/mizzle
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Post by rondetto on Aug 15, 2019 3:45:54 GMT
Morning all: Looks like a nice day ahead so we are off to the coast for a ride, have lunch do some shopping then home.
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