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Kaiseki at Saki, October 2007. [Jun. 25th, 2008|09:31 pm]
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(I'm shunting this over from the RGL entry because I want to cut the existing text on the entry down a bit in order to add info about a subsequent visit. Apologies to those who've already read it.)

Saki is probably one of my top five — maybe even my top three — London restaurants at the moment.

Situated just across the road from Smithfield Market, it's perhaps not in the most obvious part of town for fine dining; but it's worth the trip.

My first visit was on a Wednesday evening in October 2007; I dragged [info]uon along with me, having booked two places at the sushi counter. There were a few people dining at the smaller tables, and another couple joined us at the counter a little later on. We had the six-course kaiseki with matched wines and sakes. The wine pairing was perhaps a mistake; it wasn't paced particularly well, with too much alcohol at the start of the meal and not enough at the end.

The food was very good though.

The first course was half-cooked lobster with mizuna in a tasty sesame sauce. I do like the half-cooked (mi-cuit) style for fish.

We were both very keen on the second course of seared salmon slices wrapped around marinaded raw onion and served with a thin green chilli sauce. Looking back, this dish is comparable to the yellowtail sashimi with green chilli salsa that [info]rjw1 and I recently had at Dinings. I would like to eat more sashimi in this style.

Tempura was third; I am never very excited by tempura, so I'm not the right person to comment on this course. I had absolutely no complaints about it though; the batter was hot, crisp, not greasy, and not tough.

Salmon teriyaki followed this; the sushi chef said we could have rice with this if we wanted, but he didn't recommend this since the sushi course was next, and so we followed his advice. He was right.

The fifth course comprised chutoro, yellowtail, and prawn nigiri, and inside-out rolls with shiso leaf. We were positively encouraged to eat the nigiri with our hands; the waitstaff brought round warm handwipes in advance, and the chef recommended we use fingers instead of chopsticks. The rice portions on the nigiri were smaller than I've had anywhere else, which I was pleased about in the context of the multi-course meal, and the fish portion was in proportion to the rice.

The final course was ice cream (green tea flavour, I think), and a small portion of cake, which doop was very pleased with. (I'm not a dessert person, but he is, so if he likes it then it's good.)

Service was patchy and sometimes slightly awkward. One of my wine glasses was removed before I'd finished drinking from it, and doop's dessert plate was whipped away just as I was about to transfer my portion of cake to it. Overall, I did feel as though we were rushed through the meal slightly. (Note: these issues were not at all in evidence on our latest visit, earlier this month.)

The sushi chef was very chatty and friendly, and sitting at the sushi counter was definitely a good choice. In fact, he remembered us when we visited nine months later, accompanied by [info]julietk, for the vegan kaiseki which I will post about shortly. I'm always surprised when someone recognises me! Though I have a feeling that when they do, it's because I was the scruffiest person who ever entered their restaurant — this would explain why it never happens in pubs :)

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London Library. [Jun. 12th, 2008|12:26 pm]
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Hello. Are any of you members of the London Library? If so, then [info]her_welshness would like to interview you for her dissertation.
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London Crawling, 10 May 2008 — itinerary. [May. 8th, 2008|01:25 pm]
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The itinerary for the fibromyalgia pub crawl on Saturday is now available here on [info]juliann's journal. We're starting near Westminster at 5:30pm and will then walk along the river with a few diversions and additional pub stops. The total length of the walk will be around 5km (about 3 miles) and the pace will be very leisurely. Please do come and join us if you're free and fancy a nice wander and some beer. Juliann will be accepting donations for a fibro charity but there won't be any nagging.
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Kaiseki at Umu, April 2008. [Apr. 27th, 2008|09:28 pm]
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I wasn't quite sure where to put this, because the RGL review already has more than enough words in it, but I made notes afterwards and I don't just want to throw them away, so they are here.

Anyway; Umu is a Michelin-starred Japanese restaurant in Mayfair, and Bob and I went there for dinner last Monday. We had the special sushi kaiseki menu with matched sake. It was very good but not perfect.

First seasonal appetiser was kudzu "tofu" topped with uni, wasabi, and what I think was probably shredded young ginger. It was served with a sauce of green peas and spinach chlorophyll. The tofu had some rather unpleasantly chalky green peas in it.

Second seasonal appetiser had three components: baby squid served with rape flowers and white miso sauce; mochi stuffed with white miso and white kidney beans and wrapped in an oak leaf; and some highly seasoned sushi rice with a thin slice of seabass, again wrapped in a leaf. I really liked the rape flowers; I'm not sure if this was because of their intrinsic flavour or because of the flavour of their simmering liquid. I thought the mochi was too sweet for this stage of the meal.

Next came sashimi: amberjack, chutoro, and langoustine.

Fourth course was a clear soup with langoustine, "butterbar" (I have no idea if this was plant or animal — I really couldn't tell), and shiitake mushroom. Excellent stock used in this.

Traditional sushi was next: I can't remember what we had though. Three pieces.

The traditional sushi was followed by modern sushi: something (tuna?) with pesto, seared amberjack, toro. The seared amberjack was excellent; I like this fish anyway, but just that light cooking on the outside really improved the flavour. This was served with miso soup containing some confusing toruses — egg? tofu? squid? Who knows.

The penultimate course was a piece of sea bass which had been crisped on the base as well as the skin, which worked very well. It was very very very very slightly overcooked except in the middle, but I suspect this may be unavoidable in this preparation. Lotus root and bamboo shoot with this.

Dessert was very dull; a grapefruit half with the segments only partially severed, topped with a rather uninteresting brandy jelly and a coconut and pineapple sake sorbet. We also got some rather uninteresting chocolate marshmallow cubes afterwards.
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London Crawling, 10 May 2008. [Apr. 18th, 2008|08:25 pm]
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The National Fibromyalgia Association of the US is hosting a walk to raise funds and awareness on 10 May this year. [info]juliann is organising a London version on the same day. Here's the blurb:

London Crawling is a pub crawl through the West End of London on the evening of Saturday 10 May 2008. We're going to walk our 5km (hopefully, fingers crossed!) but take regular breaks to sit down, rest and perhaps have a half. (Alcohol not required, indeed not recommended for many on certain pain medications!) It's social but socially conscious all in one! We'll also be pointing out things which are hazards to the mobility impaired along our route, for those who have never had cause to notice such things before.


I will be going along! If you are in London, will you come too? You can either be an official Virtual Participant[0], which costs $35 (join and pay here), or you can just come along and hang out with us and maybe make a donation.

[0] Virtual since we're not in California, where the main walk is happening.

Further details, and a link for making online donations, are on Juliann's journal (she's organising this, not me). Exact details of the route will emerge at some future point, once there has been research into suitably-accessible pubs in the area.
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A-Z walk, the fifth. [Mar. 23rd, 2008|02:44 am]
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Page 26 column K (Chingford Station) to page 37 column K (Chigwell Station).

So after an enormous break of over three months, I resumed the A-Z walks on Monday 17 March 2008. (One major reason for the hiatus was that I'd been doing a different kind of exploring — visiting a particular area and wandering around circularly rather than linearly. I did e.g. Brockley, Sydenham, and Ilford.) [info]caramel_betty happened to have some leave days that needed taking, so he joined me on this one. This wasn't a "real" A-Z walk, but rather a "fill in" one to get me from the eastern edge of the top row to the eastern edge of the next row down.

We started out eastwards from Chingford Station, making a brief diversion to have a look at Queen Elizabeth's hunting lodge. This diversion set the tone for the rest of the first half of the walk; mud, mud, and more mud. We squelched our way along the edge of Chingford Plain, circled around where we thought the lodge was, then headed back roughly the way we'd come, separated from the lodge by a tall fence which resisted all attempts at peeking through. We eventually identified the lodge with the help of a sign; it turned out to be smaller and rather less impressive than one might expect, and completely dwarfed by the Harvester (?) pub next door.

What should have happened next was a nice stroll through some woodland to the Warren Wood pub. It seemed quite easy, especially as there's yet another section of the London Loop which should have led us right to it. Unfortunately we managed to end up heading in completely the wrong direction, and after a good deal more mud ended up pretty much due south of where we'd entered the woods, instead of due east. Personally, I blame the fact that it was too overcast to see the sun, and there were no satellite dishes handy, so I had no idea where south was. I promise to buy a compass at some point.

Anyway; we eventually stumbled on a landmark in the form of a lovely, lovely road sign. I looked it up on the map, cursed silently, apologised to [info]caramel_betty, and led the way onwards to Buckhurst Hill, where my intention was to have a pint and some lunch in the Three Colts. It was, of course, closed. Plus it was about to rain.

Interweb-on-mobile-phone was employed, and we decided on a plan B of Rocky's, which sounded kind of awful but would at least provide shelter from the rain, and it was just down the road. Upon arrival, we learned that Rocky's had been renamed to the Players Lounge. This disturbed me somewhat, as it honestly did sound and look like it was some kind of swingers' club. Now I have nothing against swingers, but I did worry that it might be, well, rude to walk into a swingers' club with unbrushed hair, scruffy clothes, and mud up to one's armpits. Thankfully I was completely imagining everything. It was a perfectly fine place to drink, with surprisingly good service, and they even had Hoegaarden. (I do have a strong suspicion that it's the kind of place that's utterly, utterly grim in the evenings, mind.)

Rain evaded, Hoegaarden quaffed, and lunch eaten, we headed out again with renewed energy. Skipping blithely across the M11 (and past a minor car smash), we peeled off north onto Roding Lane. This proved to be a mistake, as the pavement ran out very quickly, meaning we had to walk on the road. As previously documented, I know how to walk safely on roads, but that doesn't mean I like it — and checking the map later revealed that had we continued along Chigwell Rise we could have rejoined the London Loop and walked along an actual footpath. Oh well.

At the end of Roding Lane we passed Chigwell School, noting in passing that while in my day kids used to hang around the edges of the school grounds to smoke a sneaky cigarette and actually have conversations, these days they seem more interested in sending text messages and ignoring everyone around them. So exactly like grown-ups in pubs, then.

Just past the school was Ye Olde Kings Head, an enormous Chef and Brewer pub where we had a couple of pints of Bombardier. This is the point at which my earlier warning to [info]caramel_betty began to become true — after a certain point, every A-Z walk turns into a pub crawl. The Kings Head was followed by the King William IV (Timothy Taylor Landlord and a couple of decent enough pizzas), and then, for some reason, the King Edward VII in Stratford. I have no idea which of us decided that we should go drinking in Stratford, but it was an excellent decision. Despite a bit of wobbling on my part when we failed to immediately discover the pub, and memories of [info]mstevens' stories of Stratford muggings began to resurface, the King Eddie turned out to be a hidden gem, a saving grace, an excellent way to round off the day. A pint of Nelson's Trafalgar, a pleasant and spacious seating area, and some interesting music just on the right side of "too loud" — and a food menu that looked plenty interesting enough to merit a return visit at some point.

See also: Google map of our route (no Flickr photoset as I only took photos of pubs, and you can see them by following the RGL links).

Next up: Chigwell Station westwards, probably ending up at Highams Park Station.
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Cooling the Tube. [Mar. 12th, 2008|11:30 am]
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Hello. I went to a talk last night about cooling the London Underground. It was interesting. I took notes, and have written them up. This isn't in the exact order the talk was in; I moved some stuff around to make more sense (the speaker mentioned that his slides weren't in the optimal order, so his talk wouldn't be either).

The talk was at the Building Centre in Bloomsbury, and the speaker was the director of TfL's Cooling The Tube programme, Kevin Payne.

( Rather long. )

I have already spent way too much time on this, but I may come back later and add some supplementary links/explanations (or perhaps the other Tube obsessives and/or the engineers on my friends list will do it for me). Also, I took some photos of the Building Centre's scale model of Central London, but I haven't had a chance to sort them out yet. Edit: here they are.

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A-Z walk, the fourth. [Dec. 1st, 2007|06:29 pm]
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Page 25 column F (Ponders End Station) to page 26 column K (Chingford Station, give or take).

It turned out that much of this was actually on the London Loop. Again.

My plan had been to walk around King George's Reservoir until I ran out of footpath. The walk along the reservoir was quite pleasant; there were trees and swans and amusing signs. However, when I rounded the top and prepared to walk back down the eastern edge, I found that the footpath that was clearly marked on my A-Z was blocked off with hazard tape. However! There was a very clear gravel path leading off vaguely northeastwards, and a sign proclaiming it to be the way to Chingford Station — three miles, which sounded about right. It all got rather organised-looking at this point; not just the nice gravel path, but benches every fifty yards and even picnic tables. This, it seems, was the bottom edge of Lea Valley Park.

About 500 m later, I reached Sewardstone Road. This was the part I hadn't been looking forward to, since it was basically a long trek down a main-ish road, and Google's satellite images had suggested that there wasn't much pavement involved. (My previous footpath plans would have had me coming out onto this road about a kilometre further south than I actually did.) I was momentarily cheered by seeing a sign for "Freddie's Free House", but it turned out that this was in fact an ex-pub, not a pub. I did see a foreign bus, though, and what seemed to be some kind of llama petting zoo. And of course ended up in a pub.

Flickr photoset.

Next up: I've actually finished the top row now, but I'm going to try to keep a continuous line, so I'm walking off-map from Chingford Station around to Chigwell Station. I had to purchase an extra map (from Stanfords) — it was very exciting.
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A-Z walk, the third. [Nov. 17th, 2007|03:20 am]
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Page 23 column K (Enfield Town Station) to page 25 column F (Ponders End Station).

I have to admit that this one was pretty much just a pub crawl. [info]caramel_betty, my expert on the area, had warned me that it would be "fairly uneventful", so I decided to just pick a few reasonable-looking pubs from RGL and BitE and treat it as a beer-spotting expedition.

The eastern part of Enfield seems to be less McMullen-dense than parts further west; unfortunately this didn't mean more of a variety of real ale, but rather none at all. The Southbury at least had real Greene King IPA, but the Goat had only the nitrokeg version. I really should make more of an effort to switch to my Strongbow-swigging alter-ego in situations like this. Still, even that wouldn't have helped with the total utter deadness of both pubs. (Admittedly this is partly my fault for choosing a Monday afternoon for my visits. I mean, what kind of sad no-mates alky goes to pubs on her own on a Monday afternoon?)

Thankfully, the Wetherspoons Picture Palace came to the rescue. Lovely interior, excellent atmosphere, and there was a beer festival on. Marvellous.

Light for photography was generally vile, and almost everything I wanted to photograph had the sun behind it, but I managed to get a good shot of the terrifyingly-huge Enfield Cineworld. (That photo does not even begin to convey scale. Seriously, it's ginormous, and that's only the front third or so.)

Flickr photoset

Next up: From Ponders End station round the reservoir, finishing up in the Royal Oak for a pint and some dinner with any Enfield inhabitants I can persuade to join me, then home via Chingford Station.
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A-Z walk, the second. [Oct. 10th, 2007|01:28 am]
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Page 22 column B (Oakwood Station) to page 23 column K (Enfield Town Station).

Did my second A-Z walk yesterday. The first one ended at Oakwood Station, which is reasonably convenient for me to get to, so that's where I started the second.

My original plan was to head pretty much straight across to Ponders End Station via a few pubs; but once I'd made a little Google map to help me figure out the route, I decided it would be silly to go all the way up there and not take the opportunity to wander around Trent Park. So I did. I got a bit lost, several times, due to entering the park slightly to the west of where I'd intended to, and to thinking that the line between Oakwood and Cockfosters points north, which it blatantly doesn't, and I knew it doesn't because I walked parallel to it the other week, sigh. But it wasn't particularly serious getting-lost, and I'm fairly sure I knew exactly where I was about half of the time. So far, so fun. (Squirrel count: approximately 15, all grey.)

Not wanting to have to retrace my footsteps at any point, or go in too obvious a circle, I'd decided that the best route would be straight up through the park, circle around the university campus, head up to Hadley Road, and then get back down to Enfield Road (and the Jolly Farmers pub for lunch) via this track marked here on streetmap. Now, my A-Z only marks the first and last thirds of this track, but streetmap definitely implies there's a way through. Still, when I got to Vicarage Farm there was no sign of footpath markings, and enquiry at the farm revealed only that there was "probably a way through to Oakwood down there, I think that's the way the police go, yes, just climb over that little fence".

Over the little fence was a field of uncut grass, with vague signs of previous pedestrians heading south; so I followed them. I quickly arrived at a tarmac track which led south ahead of me, but which obviously led back up to the farm in the other direction. At this point I realised that the people at the farm had probably misunderstood the direction I wanted to go in, since otherwise why would they have diverted me over the fence and through the grass? But I decided to press on and see where the track went.

It went on for a little way, then petered out, leaving me halfway along the edge of a field. I didn't really have much option other than to carry on walking along the sides of the fields in the same direction. I think I might have been trespassing at this point, though it could be argued that the people I'd spoken to earlier had given me permission. I'm quite sure I wasn't on a footpath, especially since I had to climb over a locked gate at the other end, when I finally did reach Enfield Road.

Although the main pub I wanted to visit was the Wonder, since it has an RGL entry by merit of being in the Good Beer Guide, it doesn't do food. Happily, Beer in the Evening came to the rescue, with the Jolly Farmers. A nice enough pub, decent food, real ale, and very friendly staff. Here I made the tactical error of ordering sausages and mash and attempting to finish it. This was silly because (a) I can never finish pub portions of sausage and mash; (b) I had a fair bit more walking to do; and (c) the pub has a very sensible policy of offering smaller portions of selected dishes, which I could easily have taken advantage of.

So the next part of the walk was rather slow, as I was digesting. It also wasn't very interesting — just streets of houses, basically, though I did divert in order to get a photo of Gordon Hill Station. By the time I got to the Wonder I was quite ready for another rest. Unfortunately I didn't feel very welcome there. I'd known in advance that it was going to be a bit of an old man's pub, which I'm quite fine with, and it may have been partly my own fault for asking to take a photo of the beer pumps, but I really did feel as though the landlady and the other customers were quite perplexed by my presence, and I had rather a feeling that I wasn't supposed to be there. So I didn't stay long, and I couldn't quite face the possibility of having the same experience in one of the other pubs I'd been planning to try out, so I cut the walk short and came home via Enfield Town Station.

There is a photoset on Flickr and a slightly noisy GPS trace on Google Maps (second half of the route only, alas, due to the app getting confused). I also sent a few SMSes to the KakeWalk Twitter account.

Next one should have been from Ponders End Station round the reservoir and home via Chingford Station, but I think instead it will be Enfield Town to Ponders End via some pubs. I didn't get a photo of Enfield Town yesterday, since it had roadworks in front. Hopefully that'll be over by time I get around to the next walk.
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A-Z walk, the first [Sep. 30th, 2007|01:44 am]
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Page 20 column A (the western edge of the known universe) to page 22 column B (Oakwood Station).

Did my first A-Z walk last Thursday. I couldn't have wished for a better start. Pages 20 and 21 (the first actual map pages) contain:

After a dim sum lunch at the New World with various components of London.pm, I headed up to High Barnet. The station's in column D of page 20, so not quite at the edge; this meant I had to head west for a bit before I could get started. The point which I deemed to be the beginning of the walk was the point where Galley Lane joins Wood Street; I took a photo of the sign (and of the pub that happened to be there), sent commemorative SMSes to Bec, Bob, doop, and Richard, and headed towards my first landmark, the Sebright Arms.

The Sebright Arms was on the agenda because it was in last year's Good Beer Guide, and hence got added to RGL when I was doing my auto-import of all GBG pubs. Sadly, it's not in it this year; I don't know why. Equally sadly, I didn't get there until 2:50pm, and it closes at 3pm on Thursdays, so I didn't go in. Never mind; the Olde Monken Holt (on the agenda for the exact same reason) was just a short walk away, so I headed over there for a pint (for review purposes, of course), and a bowl of chips (since I forgot to eat enough food at lunchtime).

From here on, the walk was pretty much entirely countryside. I was basically walking across Monken Hadley Common from west to east. There was a very very villagey bit, and then there was woodland. I stumbled on some London Loop signs at one point, and followed them for a while. Towards the end of the walk, and the afternoon, I started to see other walkers: a young couple, hand-in-hand; an older couple, with a car and a dog; another dog-walker, alone but for his dog.

The end of the common was marked by another pub — the Cock and Dragon, which I didn't go in (but should have, since it would have meant I missed rush hour later on). Cockfosters station was just a few minutes away; I walked past it, but decided to press on to Oakwood station, since it would get me onto the next page.

Cockfosters to Oakwood was the least enjoyable bit of the entire walk. I walked along Westpole Avenue, which is basically a long, straight, tedious suburban street. And my feet hurt, because they'd just spent 45 minutes walking on nice soft ground, and now I was expecting them to put up with hard pavements (and I need new boots). If I'd realised that this part would be so dull, I'd have stopped at Cockfosters and then started the next walk with a good wander around Trent Park.

But overall it was great! Next up, Oakwood to (probably) Ponders End.

There is a photoset on Flickr, and a (rather noisy) GPS trace on Google Maps, and I've also set up a Twitter account called KakeWalk, which you can subscribe to if you'd also like to get commemorative SMSes on future walks (I only sent them to people who I knew were interested in me and/or adventures this time round, but I'm happy to share with more people) when something interesting happens, or when I find myself in a pub that I plan to stay in for more than half an hour.

Incidentally, an interesting fact I discovered while deciding how to get home is that Green Park is actually slightly to the east of Cockfosters. You would never guess this from the Tube map.

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GIMP is like magic. [Sep. 24th, 2007|04:32 pm]
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This is what came out of my camera.

This is what came out of the GIMP.

Blimey.

Incidentally, that photo was taken at the temporary mushroom market in Spitalfields run by Carluccio's. There's one in Oxford in a few weeks' time; more info and the rest of my photos are here.
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Coming clean. [Sep. 22nd, 2007|07:38 pm]
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OK, it is time to reveal what I've been up to since January.

I have been Tubewalking. I don't think anyone guessed what I was up to, even though there was a bit of a giveaway trail on Flickr and RGL. I did have a bit of a near miss when [info]hoshuteki commented that some of my recent photos looked familiar because he'd been on a Tube walk in the area. Sorry for not being straight with you right there and then, but I really wanted to catch up with the official community before I actually told people what I was doing.

So, yeah. I caught up. I started walk 1 (Acton Town to Chiswick Park) on Friday 19 January this year, and finished walk 43 (Charing Cross to Embankment) this afternoon. The next walk is Chesham to Chalfont and Latimer, and unless something very very important gets in the way, I will be doing it with the [info]tubewalkers on Sunday 30 September.

I kept notes on some of the walks, and even got as far as writing some of them up. For some of the walks, I took the scenic route; for others I took the route that intersected places that needed RGL photos; for still others I took the route that went past a good pub; and for the rest I just took the quickest route from start to finish. It has been an awful lot of fun, and I hope it's going to be even more fun when I'm walking the remaining 139 walks with everyone else.

This does mean that I'm going to want a new walking challenge to do on my own, since (a) I am an antisocial bugger really, and I like walking on my own, and (b) the official tubewalks don't happen as often as I like to walk. Happily, I have already figured one out.

I'm going to walk across the A-Z. All of it. The regular size, not the mini one. Every page.

This will involve crossing London ten times, for a minimum mileage of around 225 miles. I think that should keep me busy for a while.
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Bacchus, Hoxton. [Jul. 11th, 2007|12:06 pm]
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So, [info]rjw1 and [info]uon took me to Bacchus for my birthday dinner last night.

( Six-course tasting menu. It was good. )
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[London] Tech writer job going at Fotango. [May. 17th, 2007|05:09 pm]
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Hello. There's a tech writer job available at Fotango. Full time, on-site, six months. If you're interested, please give them a shout. Also, please pass this on to anyone else who might be interested.

(The "full time" bit is why I'm not doing it. Oh, and they also want an experienced sysadmin to join [info]rjw1 and Dean WINOLJAFAIK.)
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[London] Glass Body performances at Guy's. [Mar. 20th, 2007|05:06 pm]
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Today I went to see Glass Body. I liked it, though I didn't really understand some of it. If you like this sort of thing, you should go and see it too. Entry is free. (Time Out review, from a previous run at a different hospital.)

This is the final week — remaining performances are Wednesday 21st: 2pm and 4pm; Thursday 22nd: 1.30pm, 4pm, and 6.30pm; Friday 23rd: 2pm, 4pm, and 7pm; and Saturday 24th: 2pm, 4pm, and 7pm. The venue is Atrium 1 of Guy's Hospital; you get there by going over the footbridge from London Bridge station, following the corridor round, going down to the ground floor in the lift (I looked for stairs but couldn't find any), and it's on your left as you exit the lift.

(There's a game, too, though it's not particularly great.)

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