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From: Week on Wheels <wow /at/ lfns.co.uk>
Subject: [wow] Week on Wheels: Best of London and Walham Green Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:23:33 +0000 == THIS WEEK == FRIDAY's skate is a BEST OF LONDON. For those not familiar with this tradition, it has two implications. First, the route takes in lots of tourist landmarks, so bring you camera and take lots of motion-blurred photos of Big Ben, Piccadilly Circus, the London Eye and the views over the Thames. Second, that it is "red" (intermediate) pace throughout - there is no black section, so if you've been doing the Stroll comfortably and wonder if you'd manage an LFNS ,this is a good one to start with. Friday 8pm Hyde Park Corner, half time somewhere round the back of Covent Garden. http://www.lfns.co.uk/route.php/20080411 The SUNDAY STROLL, in a bid to avoid the London Marathon route, heads west. SOYLENT GREEN was a 1973 dystopian science fiction movie starring the recently deceased Charlton Heston. WALHAM GREEN was a triangular plot of greensward on the north side of the Fulham Road, upon which, in former times, donkeys had been wont to graze, and the village children to play at cricket. The difference is key, because it's the latter we're going to be visiting on Sunday. Remember, Soylent Green is people, but Walham Green is parkland. Starts at 2pm Serpentine Road. http://www.lfns.co.uk/route.php/20080413 As usual, skates are weather-dependent and may be cancelled if roads are made treacherous by rain, sleet, hail, manna or plagues of frogs. == LAST WEEK == "You guys organise this so well, maybe we should get you to run Heathrow Terminal 5 for a week to clear up the mess!" And wouldn't airports be so much more fun if you could skate to the terminal building? Friday's outing to Clapham was described as "the first skate of summer" - perhaps somewhat precipitately, given that the Sunday Stroll was cancelled two days later by snow. http://www.lfns.co.uk/route.php/20080404/1 == CURTAINS == Rumours of the Firebrox's demise on Friday were caused by a misunderstanding: yes, a bent tracking rod made it harder to pedal than usual; no, anything further you might have heard about it being "curtains" was just chinese whispers. We can rebuild him. Apparently it needs someone with a vice (so we're looking for a marshal who bites his fingernails) to straigthen out the bent rod, then reassembly is a complicated ritual involving two bits of wood, some string, and 4cc of mouse blood. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_%28Discworld%29#Rite_of_AshkEnte == NEXT WEEK == Don't forget that the Londonskate season starts next week on the 16th April - more details on their web site. We'd say something sarcastic again, but we got so much grief last time let's just say we're looking forward to it and leave it at that. If you're unfamiliar with the Londonskate, it's a 10-12 mile (ish) skate on Wednesday nights, somewhere between the speed of a Sunday Stroll and an LFNS. They have their unique signature as do we, but the same basic principles apply (which is good, because half the marshals help with both, and we'd easily get confused otherwise). http://www.londonskate.com/ == COP-OUT == As widely reported in the media, the Police escort for the Parisian leg of the Olympic torch relay included officers on roller skates. They're a common sight in Paris - not only on the Pari-Roller but for general police duties - but the last attempt to introduce them in London's Royal Parks was discontinued after, it was claimed, suspects escape by running across the grass where the skate police could not follow them. Effective or otherwise, it still displays a whole lot more style than the police in London who were jogging alongside the Torch while wearing bike helmets - but that's the French for you. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7335277.stm == CAST NO SHADOW == Lastest installment in the thrilling saga of the Lovers Walk streetlights: most but not all of the trenches have now been filled in, but approximately half the lights are turned off. You wouldn't expect it to make much difference (we speculate that the maximum light output was legally restricted by some obscure temporary wartime legislation which, like income tax, nobody has yet got round to repealing) but the glimmer cast by each working lamp is just about sufficient to illuminate the pole it stands on, so watch out for the others when skating through the park at night. http://www.britastro.org/dark-skies/ == END GAME == Don't stack on a trampoline, or attempt to reply to this by mail: either will result in a bounce. 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