The Sincerest For Of Poetry
Apprenticed To My Mother
Walking Into Trouble
Dead Flies and Sherry Trifle
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My Father and Other Liars
Life In A Conversation
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Tag Archives: Crystal Palace
Staying Local: Crystal Palace Park
In 1851, Prince Albert, Prince Regent to Queen Victoria had what was possibly his finest hour with the opening of his Great Exhibition in Hyde Park. He commissioned a glass house designer, Joseph Paxton (his gong came after) to come … Continue reading
Posted in Crystal Palace, miscellany, walking
Tagged alpacas, Crystal Palace, Joseph Paxton, sphinxes, statues, walking, woods
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Week Four: 2022
I worry about law breaking. I do it, more often than I’d like to admit. Speeding – staying at 20 mph, which is universal around here, is darned tricky – the odd parking infraction, the occasional littering and I can’t … Continue reading
Posted in 2022, Dulwich, walking
Tagged Crystal Palace, Dulwich, Dulwich College, Flanders and Swann, strava art, walking
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What Did The Victorians Ever Do For Us #crystalpalace
As with Monty Python and the People’s Front of Judeah listing what the Romans missed, so we can often forget the genius of some Victorians. One such near me was the creation of the Crystal Palace which was reconstructed on … Continue reading
Moving West #capitalring #walking
I left off the other day, in Eltham Park North. We lunched in Eltham, an odd place that mixes large 1920s housing aimed at the newly affluent city middle class with a residue of the footpads and gangsters of the … Continue reading
Posted in capital ring, London, walking
Tagged beckenham, capital ring, Crystal Palace, downham, eltham, Eltham Palace
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Where The East Begins #capitalring #walking
A week or so ago, I wrote about a wander with the APE when we did a section of the Capital Ring, a circular walk around London that aims to take in as many of the green spaces as possible … Continue reading
Posted in capital ring, Friends, London, miscellany, walking
Tagged capital ring, Crystal Palace, maryon wilson park, military history, Thames, woolwich
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Ring Of Walking – #CapitalRing #crystalpalace to #richmond
I like to walk. Better than running and infinitely better than swimming. Better still than driving which often engenders ranting/neckache/guilt and sometimes all three. And while cycling and my bottom are reasonably compatible, I have seen too many road surfaces, … Continue reading
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Tagged balham, capital ring, Crystal Palace, Richmond, Streatham, tooting common, walking, wimbledon
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Crystal Palace to Grove Park #capitalring #walking
It’s over six months since my last stretch of the Capital Ring, here. That took Dog and me to Greenford in North West London so, to be different we headed east, away from our start point of Crystal Palace, through … Continue reading
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Tagged beckenham, capital ring, Crystal Palace, grove park, walking
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A New History #crystalpalacesubway
There was nothing special about Sydenham Hill in the 1840s. A minor lump 7 miles pretty much due south of St Paul’s it’s future changed with the decision to move the huge glass buildings of the 1851 great Exhibition to … Continue reading
The Capital Ring: Crystal Palace to Tooting
The Capital Ring is a strategic walking route that completely encircles inner and central London. It is approximately 78 miles long and cuts trough as many green spaces as is possible. I completed the Capital Ring for the first time … Continue reading
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Tagged capital ring, Crystal Palace, Streatham, tooting, walking
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Always leave them laughing
This isn’t a morbid post but it is about death. Or the arrangements around death. I’ve been put in mind of this subject by an incident yesterday in Crystal Palace. The Textiliste and I were on our way to the … Continue reading
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