Sometimes I love London

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martint235

Dog on a bike
Location
Welling
it's lovely being off work this week and riding about this great city. Just back from Primrose Hill and coffee and cake with a mate. I meant to head onto Highgate to see if I could see that working horse in the wood but forgot all about it momentarily and turned for home by mistake.
Thinking of where to go tomorrow morning now. Open to ideas.
Working horse? As opposed to one that's someone has broken?
 

RedRider

Pulling through
Yeah, all its strings are intact and its neigh's working and everything. Here it is.
 

swee'pea99

Squire
according to @swee'pea99 the work was scheduled to finish by the end of this month. Hopefully it's still there.
It wasn't there yesterday, though there are many piles of logs/trunks...maybe they're waiting to get shot of those before they haul more out of the woods. It didn't look like they'd finished...there was actually a horse box and trailer, just no actual horse.
 

RedRider

Pulling through
It wasn't there yesterday, though there are many piles of logs/trunks...maybe they're waiting to get shot of those before they haul more out of the woods. It didn't look like they'd finished...there was actually a horse box and trailer, just no actual horse.
If the weather's right tomorrow morning I might take the chance. Is it easy enough to find the work site once you're there?
 

anothersam

SMIDSMe
Location
Far East Sussex
The OP hits a sweet spot. Country roads, take me home to the city.

In fact, the main reason I do the FNRttC is for the London bits, even though sadly we're always leaving it.

[QUOTE 2789726, member: 1314"]Last time I cycled in Cheltenham, the most scenic thing I saw was:

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That picture reminds me that I've often been saved from freezing to death by huddling in the carcass of a cow (as a vegan, the irony alone keeps me warm). Got the idea from The Empire Strikes back.

One of my fav shots of London:
Trafalgarped.jpg

I call it: Get the fark out of the way. Which I think you'll have to agree captures the spirit of the city, for many.
 

swee'pea99

Squire
If the weather's right tomorrow morning I might take the chance. Is it easy enough to find the work site once you're there?
Yes. It's not a large wood - you can walk round it in 15 mins, +/-. Ask for the cafe - that's where the horse pulls the logs to. From there, it's obvious where they go.
 

swee'pea99

Squire
Last day today for the horses - but according to the nice horse man, they're moving on to Coldfall Wood next week, which is in the same neck of the woods.
 

Haitch

Flim Flormally
Location
Netherlands
From Far-Off Things (1922) by Arthur Machen (decadent Welsh mystic):

London loomed up before me, wonderful, mystical as Assyrian Babylon, as full of unheard-of things and great unveilings as any magic city in an Eastern tale. It loomed up with incredible pinnacles and in its mighty shadow all lesser objects disappeared.
 

Wobblers

Euthermic
Location
Minkowski Space
There seems to be something seriously wrong with your camera, CoG. In every photo you take, there seems to be this ghastly dirty grey fixed gear bike in the picture. Have you considered taking it back?

PS: from what I remember about your back garden, it had one tumbledown shed with rustic mould and an overgrown tree with Dutch Elm disease. I don't remember seeing any deer...
 

martint235

Dog on a bike
Location
Welling
[QUOTE 2985096, member: 1314"]This morning we looked forlornly at another pub that wasn't yet open. :sad:

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User, how many times? At least wait until the sun is over the yard arm before trying to get p*****d. Or if you're really desperate there's a pub just down from there that opens at 9am.
 

martint235

Dog on a bike
Location
Welling
[QUOTE 2985124, member: 1314"]I went to church in Aldwych a few minutes later to repent. But that was shut as well.

The Devil and God both out. Who am I to turn to?
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It's cos you keep parking a dirty fixie outside their premises!! Turn to the light, get gears!
 
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