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From: Week on Wheels <wow /at/ lfns.co.uk>
Subject: [wow] We're in Waterloo: LFNS and skating update Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 10:16:12 +0000 This week, on wheels * This week: Tunnelling out * Le Mans: team registration 1st February * Wilton Arms: the management kindly request that ... * Easter eggs: we're hatching plans * Boardfree finished * Word of the week == THIS WEEK == The LONDON FRIDAY NIGHT GREAT ESCAPE sees our intrepid band of skaters break out through the tunnels under London Wall before re-enacting our own personal Waterloo (through the car park). Also starring: Haymarket, Trafalgar Square, downhill from Aldwych to the Embankment, Victoria Street and the Tate Modern. Programme length 119 minutes, PG, colour. http://www.lfns.co.uk/route.php/20070126 May d'Upneim wrote in through our web site after last week:"the SUNDAY STROLL was great as always, but what I'd *really* love is if we could head down Sloane St, through Victoria, up past Parliament to Whitehall and Leicester Square, then through Covent Garden up to Coram's Fields and past Russel Square for halftime (tube: Picadilly Line). It would be especially cool if then we came back through Bloomsbury and Fitzrovia and down Regent's Street before going round Berkeley Square and finishing with a skate down Park Lane. Can you let me know next time you do this?". Well, we thought about it for a bit - frankly we weren't completely sure she was for real - but then we decided: May, the Force is with you. http://www.lfns.co.uk/route.php/20070128 LAST WEEK's skates were two of the best-kept secret in the community - nobody wants to spill the beans about either. Nice photos, though. http://www.lfns.co.uk/route.php/20070121/1 == 6 JOURS JUSQUE'A 24 HEURES == Team registration for the "8eme edition 24H ROLLERS" - LE MANS - opens at the beginning of February, and if last year is anything to go by will fill up quickly. It might be a bit more of a low-key event this year than 2006's ten-team extravaganza (potentially good news for anyone left in London who wants to skate that weekend) but we're still putting up a showing. So if you want to contribute Le Mans Aid to our efforts, check the LSST forums (if you want to go fast), or serpentineroad.com (if you'd rather have fun) to see who's organising what. http://www.serpentineroad.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=22607 http://www.londonspeedskaters.com/forums/le-mans-2007--f5.php == PUB-LIC MEETING == Fans of the Wilton Arms will have noticed the recent addition of a sign outside which says "No skating in the vicinity". We talked to the landlord on Friday, who says that he's still perfectly happy to have skaters in the pub, but that neighbours and the Council have complained about people skating up and down outside. So, don't do that. For followers of the other One True Skate Pub religion (that's The Victoria, if anyone needed it spelled out) we don't have any similar complaints to pass on - not since the locals lobbied the landlord to install cattle grids, anyway - but it bears saying anyway: when you leave the pub you're in a residential area, so please behave sensibly and keep the noise down. == HOW HARE WILL YOU DARE? == Plans are afoot for a special skate on the Easter Bank Holiday weekend to celebrate spring, life, fertility, and/or the resurrection of Christ (choose as applicable to your religious beliefs or need for a party). And so naturally our thoughts turn to fancy dress. Would you dress up as the Easter Bunny? Feedback through our web site, or join the discussion on serpentineroad. http://www.serpentineroad.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=22990 http://www.lfns.co.uk/feedback.php http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eostre ... and on the subject of dress, or lack thereof, check the interview with our marshal Roger, in "Punk meets Posh" magazine (p28), where he talks about the street skates, the Santa Skate, the Notting Hill Carnival, and the World Naked Bike Ride (this year, 9th June). '"Perhaps I should consider skating in rubber pants?", mused the mad man' http://www.punkmeetsposh.com/pmp071.swf http://www.punkmeetsposh.com/texts/rogertext.html http://www.worldnakedbikeride.org/uk/london/index.html The LFNS does not recommend skating naked in cold weather and will accept no liability for hypothermia, frostbite, or road rash in which inappropriate clothing is considered to be a factor. Wrap up warm. == OVER BOARD == One of the first things we wrote about in Week on Wheels was BoardFree, one man's longboard trip across Australia. And here we are again: on the 22nd January - that's Monday - Dave Cornthwaite arrived in Brisbane, completing his epic five month 5283km journey from Perth. Dave's been skating to raise money for three charities: "Link Community Development" (sustainable education projects), The Lowe Syndrome Trust and Sailability Australia, and is still some way short of his target, so, as the web site says "please make a donation to help Dave's challenge make life less of a challenge for others". http://www.boardfree.co.uk/ == WORD OF THE WEEK == Skate Tool(n) - any skater who will not KEEP LEFT despite repeated requests == OVER AND OUT == It remains only to describe the difference between a SIM card and a skate flyer, as promised last week: about 150 square cm, according to my measurements. Feedback, comments, complaints, suggestions, please drop us a line through the feedback form on the site. To unsubscribe, see the link in the page footer. Don't email us: it's not that we don't care, just that it'll bounce. http://www.lfns.co.uk/feedback.php#contactus Material in this email is protected by copyright; it may be reproduced unchanged in full provided that credit is given. All trademarks acknowledged. The LFNS is not responsible for the content of external web sites. It was like so hush hush. They were so ... quiet about it. -- Sent from the London Friday Night Skate - http://www.lfns.co.uk/ Check out any time - see http://www.lfns.co.uk/unsubscribe.php?list=wow |
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