Walking the Capital Ring - Section 12
Section 12
We started at Highgate, and the first part of the walk was through Parkland Walk Local Nature Reserve. Probably for a good 2 miles. It used to be the site of an old railway line, and near Crouch End, you can still find the remains of former platforms. It is a lovely sheltered part, and where there are bridges, there is also graffiti. Some of it illegal and shit, but mostly pieces of art. When we came past, there were artists creating new pieces.
At the end of the Parkland walk, we crossed into Finsbury Park. The breeze there was very welcome, as it was another warm and humid day. I hadn't realized that it was such a large park!
Coming out of the park we followed the course of the New River: an artificial water way meant to supply London with fresh drinking water. Parts of it are lovely, but there was also a lot of rubbish floating around in it.
After crossing Seven Sisters Road, the walk looped back towards Finsbury Road and along the East and West Reservoirs. There were many new developments along this stretch, which resulted in the path (and Capital Ring) being diverted along some shiny new footpaths. There was also a shiny ball.
At the end of the path around the reservoirs, and before entering Clissold Park, we passed by a strange looking building — in the shape of a castle. This later turned out to be the Castle Climbing Centre. The park was very busy, which was no surprise as it was a lovely day.
The last part of the walk started out with a tedious stroll along Stoke Newington High Street, which I also ended up mapping in great detail. Leaving the busy High Street, we entered Abney Park. One of London's Magnificent Seven cemeteries. Unfortunately it's lovely chapel was hidden behind scaffolding.
The section ends when we got out of the park. A quick walk later we ended up at Stoke Newington station, to find our way home.
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Route (with GPX) |
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Time |
1h 47m 16s |
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Distance |
8.90 km |
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Average Heart Rate |
104 bpm |
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Calories Burned |
863 cal |
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Life Line
I've finished reading Children of Memory, the third book in the series.
Another interesting take on forms of intelligent life.
A fourth one is going to get released later this year.
Updated a post_box, a beauty shop, and a restaurant; Confirmed 2 clothes shops, 2 pet shops, and a restaurant
I walked 5.9km in 1h40m39s
Updated a bicycle_parking
Updated 2 waste_baskets
I walked 7.9km in 1h37m12s
Created 3 waste_baskets; Updated 3 bus_stops, 2 benches, and 2 waste_baskets
I walked 8.1km in 1h25m53s
I walked 1.2km in 9m31s
I walked 9.4km in 1h39m05s
Merge branch 'xdebug_3_5'
Merged pull request #1071
Fixed issue #2411: Native Path Mapping is not applied to the initial …
Created 2 waste_baskets; Updated 3 waste_baskets, 2 benches, and 2 other objects; Deleted a waste_basket
I walked 7.9km in 1h45m36s
RE: https://phpc.social/@phpc_tv/116274041642323081
Now that phpc.tv and phpc.social are part of the same umbrella, I've upped my yearly contributions to their Open Collective: https://opencollective.com/phpcommunity/projects/phpc-social
Merge branch 'xdebug_3_5'
Merged pull request #1070
I walked 7.2km in 1h10m26s
Fixed issue #2405: Handle minimum path in .xdebug directory discovery
I've published a new blog post: "Human Creations", on the difference in content generation by LLMs, and the creation of text, art and code by humans.
You can find it at https://derickrethans.nl/human-creations.html or at @blog
I walked 7.8km in 1h38m32s
RE: https://phpc.social/@afilina/116274024588235234
It's good to see that more and more people are realising that the Web can be for-good, without all the enshittification.
That's why I'm happy to see endeavours like phpc.tv springing up, and helping out where I can.
Taking back the control of how the Web is for people, by people, without big tech making it all shit.
Created a waste_basket; Updated 5 crossings and a bicycle_parking
I walked 10.7km in 2h35m10s
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