Dun Run lite - Friday, 3 Oct

[StuartG]

A relaxed daytime ride would be a nice way to appreciate this Essex villages and facilities we missed. An Ongar (end of the tube line) start would eliminate the heavier London traffic and make it possible with a 9am start.

 

[Tim Hall]

A relaxed daytime ride would be a nice way to appreciate this Essex villages and facilities we missed. An Ongar (end of the tube line) start would eliminate the heavier London traffic and make it possible with a 9am start.

While we were some Disstance from the deluge of puns, I told @Mice about the librarians' strike in the town at the end of the tube line. Or Book Lack in Ongar as the newspaper headline had it. She didn't laugh.

 

[Gordon P]

Perhaps she was dissarmed?

 

[Flying Dodo]

I still haven't sorted out my various photos shot on my phone & camera unfortunately. I'll try and do that by the weekend so I can then post my thoughts and musings on the ride.

 

[redfalo]

I still haven't sorted out my various photos shot on my phone & camera unfortunately. I'll try and do that by the weekend so I can then post my thoughts and musings on the ride.

You're a bit Dissorganised, aren't you?

 

[Aperitif]

Das wortspiel meister zeigt Dissonanz im Lager.
Lager makes me burp and go for a diss far too often.

 

[Tim Hall]

Ah, that reminds me, I've got a few snaps here

 

[Aperitif]

Chim, chimney
Chim, chimney
Chim, chim, cher-ee
A sweep is as lucky
As lucky can be... Thank you, Tim - what an example!

 

[BigGee]

A relaxed daytime ride would be a nice way to appreciate this Essex villages and facilities we missed. An Ongar (end of the tube line) start would eliminate the heavier London traffic and make it possible with a 9am start.

You clearly have not been on the central line recently, the Ongar branch closed about 20 years ago! Epping is the end of the line now, but that is well enough out in the countryside in any case.

 

[Aperitif]

Is it not run as a preserved railway at weekends?

No. You're thinking about the line to the Tiptree jam factory.

 

[Mice]

Perhaps she was dissarmed?

Hahaha! Actually she was dissmayed at the thought that said sentence was seen to be a joke!

Mice

 

[User10571]

Ah, that reminds me, I've got a few snaps here

The dining table at The Ship looks a bit powsher than the one at Flora Tea Rooms.....

 

[Tim Hall]

The dining table at The Ship looks a bit powsher than the one at Flora Tea Rooms.....

Aye. Ded gud it was too. Note in pic #12 (after the locusts) the ramekin, baked beans for the use of.

 

[StuartG]

You clearly have not been on the central line recently, the Ongar branch closed about 20 years ago! Epping is the end of the line now, but that is well enough out in the countryside in any case.

For some of us 20 years ago is still quite recent

Can't get used to spraying them grey and swapping to fluorescent tubes & stuff.
Epping morning life is unlikely to match its night life ... but yes, a good kick off point.

 

[compo]

I haven't used the tube for over twenty years. Where does the central line from Epping go underground, is it still Stratford. I ask because I heard you could take a bike on the overland sections. I was wondering if that would be any good getting to Hackney for the DD start as I have no lift next year.