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From: Week on Wheels <wow /at/ lfns.co.uk>
Subject: [wow] Week on Wheels Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:06:33 +0000 == THIS WEEK == FRIDAY – PUTNEY & BEYOND (AGAIN) If at first you don't succeed, try and try again. Those are the words of an old skating motto. And true to the words of Mr. Seed, Mistress Sol will be leading the skate on her most wondrous of routes to places so remote they have yet to be named. Or at least named properly, as surely Southfields is more a description than a name. Ok, so on the question of names, you decide. All we can say is it's a magical route that is simply full of long smooth downhills that are also amazingly hazard free. Following last week's route check, where we skate the route before hand to ensure there are no nasty surprises on the night, marshals were heard saying they had never skated faster than on these roads. Join us Friday if you feel like a quickie. http://www.lfns.co.uk/route.php/20071116 SUNDAY - HOTTEST SPOT NORTH OF HAVANA This Sunday sees Lead Marshal Christian relive his Cuban holiday with a route to make Che Guavara proud. Having been stunned to spot a streetskate in Havana last week (in the Vedado suburb if you're ever there) he's kindly stepped in at the last minute to lead this Sunday's skate. We'll be stopping by as many Cuban themed locations as we can and 'havana laugh (geddit?!) as we go past the distinctly unsocialist Cuban cigar stores in St James and then past Floridita in Wardour Street (a "replica" of Hemingway's favourite Havana tourist haunt) and Asia de (guess where, yep Cuba) in St Martins Lane. Half time in Covent Garden and then the return leg past the Cuban Embassy in Holborn (quickest visa ever by the way) and back on a Sunday Stroll first...a tunnel under the Savoy! Join us afterwards for a cigar and a mojito. No promises of Cuban weather, women or battered old classic American cars...but if the weather holds a fun skate. http://www.lfns.co.uk/route.php/20071118 ==LAST WEEK== FRIDAY - Skates and Friday were like two ships that passed in the night - and a very windy and rainy night at that. After a long sunny day, rain clouds over West London decided enough was enough and loosed their load. Unfortunately, there was just the right amount of water on just the wrong set of roads, so Sol's superb route to the wild west was canceled at the last minute. Fortunately many a skater made it to the Vic and discovered that every cloud indeed has a silver lining. Two hours less skating meant two hours more boozing, and a fab night was had by all. SUNDAY - Well it was certainly a tough call, made even tougher by the drizzle that started just as we left the park, but in the end, the drizzle faded as quickly as it started and our Sunday Stroll to St Pancras went off without a hitch. After fixing many problems with her brakes, Firebrox also made a welcome return to her role of head of "boombastic" entertainment. Highlights of the route included the excellent curry restaurants of Drummond Street, which we passed just before reaching our half time spot at the British Library. After paying a few fines for overdue books about skating, our banging band of book worms formed a filling for Sandwich Street, and gave a friendly wave to our old friends at the Brunswick Shopping Centre before heading back to the park for a likkle more Shaggy, courtesy of the 'Brox. "If me a the rice well you a the peas," said Brox later. == WHEN THE BATTLE'S LOST, AND WON == Well, we still think that a skating event billed as Battle UK should be a tourney of the chivalric arts. Hawking we do already (see the end of any race), jousting should adapt easily to being performed on wheels, and as for fencing: we reckon hockey players should rush to a sport that actually gives them points for hitting the other player instead of making them pretend they were aiming for the ball. But apparently not. "BattleUK II: Attack of the Cones" was a freestyle skating event featuring speed slalom, freejump, 'battle rules' style slalom, a slide competition and a freestyle dance-off. Following on from the success of last year's event, this year was again capably organised by the NottinghamSkaters Freestyle Club, and you can find results on their web site. http://www.nottinghamskaters.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=2020#2020 http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigsteev/sets/72157603106562240/ == STOP MESSING ABOUT WITH FACEBOOK AND GET WOW SORTED == "Yes sir, sorry Sir, Won't happen again sir!" Whilst we announced this last week, the web wizard called Marty has again been beavering away adding all of our photo content into the little fella. Although we can't show you the pictures of Marty in action, his little Facebook app can now show you pictures and other details live from the lfns.co.uk website. "Soon you'll be able to add Facebook tags to photos from the skates," mumbled Marty mid-mouthful. So if you'd prefer to see route descriptions, skate photos and the all important Go-No Show announcements from the comfort of your Facebook front page, click the link below to add this little marvel to your Facebook profile. If you're interested in privacy, rest assured that no personal information from Facebook is recorded on our servers. http://apps.facebook.com/fridaynightskate == SPAMALOT == No not Monty Python, despite the Editor's recent perusal of their very entertaining Autobiographies, but a quick thank you to those who sent us feedback regarding the hotmail Spam filtering problem we had recently. So far so good, it looks like the fixes our techie team put in place 2 weeks ago have resulted in no more hotmail delivery problems. == HAZARD WARNING == If you wish to stop receiving these emails, please don't email us, it bounces - use the unsubscribe link in the email footer. 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 are acknowledged. The LFNS is not responsible for the content of external internet sites. 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