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I’m alive!<\/p>\n
This blog is alive!!<\/p>\n
I’ve quite enjoyed being completely out of the loop for the last few months, but I’ve finally come back into orbit now. Over the next few weeks I’m going to try to push out a huge backlog of old notes and documentation of various journeys in London and Singapore – the first draft of my working notes for what I hope will develop into a more cohesive documentation of my long-distance walking adventures. As I write them, I will link them up to this ‘catch-up’ page…<\/p>\n
Capital Ring<\/b><\/p>\n
I decided to walk the supposedly 78 mile Capital Ring over 6 consecutive days. I say “supposedly”, for Debbie does not go “as the crow flies” but rather haphazardly in a squiggly line all over the map, and according to other mapping devices it seems I may have walked more than 150 miles in total. Rather than starting with the traditional route as listed in TFL’s maps and David Sharp’s guide book to the Capital Ring, I decided to start and end my journey at Stoke Newington’s Rochester Castle.<\/p>\n
Day 1: Stoke Newington to Hackney Wick<\/a> Hertford Loop<\/b><\/p>\n I’ve been living next to one of the Hertford Loop Line stations which run from Moorgate to Stevenage and other parts of Hertfordshire. Having been used to sitting on so many new trains in Singapore (where a new train line with completely brand new trains seem to roll out every other year) I was initially shocked by the advanced and worn state of the Herts Loop trains. The windows are warped with age, the cabins are stained with mud, and there are no additional passenger facilities or station announcements on board this train – so at night, you end up fitfully peering out of the dirt streaked and heavily scratched windows to see if you can see any signs on the deserted platform. In fact, the trains used on this line (British Rail Class 313) are supposed to be some of the very oldest still in regular use in Britain and would have been built somewhere between 1976 and 1977 (over 40 years old!).<\/p>\n Finsbury Park, Gillespie, and Highbury Fields Assorted London Journeys<\/b><\/p>\n I devised a foolhardy plan to visit many historical Wetherspoons in one day, visited the “doppelganger” of my North London street (N4) in South London (SE25), re-discovered that I actually have a devastating phobia of falling into the sky when in an open field (which I must confess is quite bizarre), and found the plaque which marks where Raffles is buried. And other walks…<\/p>\n An All Day Spoons Tour!!! Outside of London<\/b><\/p>\n Margate to Ramsgate AND MORE CURRENT SINGAPORE NOTES COMING UP WHEN I AM DONE WITH THE ABOVE LOT…??<\/p>\n Long overdue documentation of work process in 2016<\/b><\/p>\n Shelter at Singapore Biennale WWII Sites in Singapore<\/b><\/p>\n Changi Museum<\/a> Canberra, Sydney, Melbourne<\/b><\/p>\n Australian War Memorial – Last Post Writing out this list alone took so long that I’m going to have to take a rest before I embark on all of this…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m alive! This blog is alive!! I’ve quite enjoyed being completely out of the loop for the last few months, but I’ve finally come back into orbit now. Over the next few weeks I’m going to try to push out a huge backlog of old notes and documentation of various journeys in London and Singapore […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1958,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[16,15,10],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/dbbd.sg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Untitled.gif","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbbd.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbbd.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbbd.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbbd.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbbd.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbbd.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1960,"href":"https:\/\/dbbd.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions\/1960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbbd.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbbd.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbbd.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbbd.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nDay 1: Hackney Wick to Beckton District Park
\nDay 1: Beckton District Park to Woolwich Foot Tunnel
\nDay 2: Woolwich Foot Tunnel to Falconwood
\nDay 2: Falconwood to Grove Park
\nDay 3: Grove Park to Crystal Palace
\nDay 3: Crystal Palace to Streatham Common
\nDay 4: Streatham Common to Wimbledon Park
\nDay 4: Wimbledon Park to Richmond
\nDay 5: Richmond to Osterley Lock
\nDay 5: Osterley Lock to Greenford
\nDay 5: Greenford to South Kenton
\nDay 6: South Kenton to Hendon Park
\nDay 6: Hendon Park to Highgate
\nDay 6: Highgate to Stoke Newington<\/p>\n
\nArnos Grove, Groveland Park, and Winchmore Hill<\/a>
\nEnfield Town, Enfield Chase, World’s End, Cockfosters<\/a>
\nGordon Hill, Lavender Hill Cemetery, Strayfield Road Cemetery, Hillyfields Park
\nPymmes Brook, Oakleigh Park, Oak Hill Park, Brunswick Park, New Southgate<\/a>
\nHadley Wood, Salmon Brook, Stagg Hill
\nNew Southgate, Hidden River, Alexandra Palace
\nWelwyn Garden City
\nLetchworth Garden City
\nA Special Note about Drayton Park<\/p>\n
\nBurgoyne Road (North London) to Burgoyne Road (South London)
\nAngel Road Superstores, Lea Valley, Tottenham Marshes, Blackhorse Lane
\nDollis Valley during Storm Doris, St Mary Hendon and Raffles’ Burial site<\/a>
\nGospel Oak, Lismore Circus, Primrose Hill, Regent’s Park
\nWillesden Junction, Camden, Primrose Hill
\nWanstead Flats and Epping Forest
\nWoodberry Wetlands, New River Path
\nPubs in Harringay
\nHampstead’s Hill Garden and Pergola<\/a>
\nNotes on footwear, footcare, and sun protection for long-distance walking<\/p>\n
\nEastbourne to Beachy Head
\nSicily<\/p>\n
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\nEmotional Departure
\nsoft\/wall\/shroom
\nHere the River lies 2.0
\nA Blender workshop I conducted at Fabcafe
\nA computational poetry workshop I conducted at Sch of Uncommon Knowledge<\/p>\n
\nFormer Ford Factory
\nFort Canning Battlebox
\nReflections at Bukit Chandu
\nNational Museum Singapore – Surviving Syonan
\nNational Gallery Singapore – Supreme Court Wing<\/p>\n
\nNational Museum of Australia
\nNational Capital Exhibition
\nQuestacon, Powerhouse, Scienceworks, CSIRO Discovery, Mt Stromlo Observatory<\/a>
\nChangi Chapel in Duntroon<\/a>
\nRemembrance Driveway<\/a><\/p>\n