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Having set out from Upminster in January 2020, and having had a year’s break because of Covid, I have at last reached Upminster again. The final section, from Epping to Upminster, took three days to beat out: the first day ended at Stapleford Abbotts accompanied by stings, scratches, skin punctures, and rank agricultural waste fromContinue reading “Completing the Ring around the Underground”

After a year’s hiatus, I have finally walked the route of the Ring around the Underground from Merton Park to Wimbledon, adding an extra 20km to the route as it tumbles down to Battersea Power Station station (at the time of writing, still a building-site mess) and back up to Wimbledon. There is a fairContinue reading “The Ring around the Underground is now NLE-ready”

Ruislip Tube station (no, not the Betjeman one, that was Ruislip Gardens, “Four-square upon the Central Line”, as Muir and Norden nearly wrote) may not be the most likely point of re-awakening, but it was the start of my first post-lockdown walk, the first wind-in-the-face and sunburn-on-the-arms outing — plus, it must be said, unshaven-chin-rasping-inside-the-maskContinue reading “Back on track”