Walking the Capital Ring - Section 1
Another year, another walk. After taking last year off due to buying a flat, and being generally busy, we decided that it was time for another of the big Walk London. Two years ago we did the London LOOP, and this year we are walking the Capital Ring, its smaller cousin.
We started our walk with two Tubes and the DLR to the start at Woolwich Arsenal; at the bottom end of the foot tunnel. From here we walked a little bit along the Thames, looking out over the skyline and, just of reach, the Thames Barrier. We'll have to visit that another time.
After crossing the moderately busy Woolwich Road at the wrong point, we went into Maryon Park, and up the hill over some steep steps through Maryon Wilson Park_. We went the wrong way around Charlton Park, but that did not add much to the length of the walk; but it probably wasn't as pleasant. Going across another park (Hornfair Park) and Woolwich Common we found ourselves having to cross a busy road.
We then climbed up through Castlewood to Severndroog castle. An interesting triangular castle, which also features a café. We decided to leave this café behind and after passing through Jack Wood we climbed another small hill. At the top, we stopped for tea and cake (yum!) at the Oxleas Wood Café. Besides tea and cake, they also seem to offer a nice menu for breakfast and lunch. Free WiFi too!. After our restorative tea we walked back down the hill. A little bit of a spray wouldn't spoil the fun.
At the bottom we saw some ducks, and then the end of Section 1 was reached near Falconwood station. If the weather would have been better, and we hadn't been invited for "Soup" in the evening, we could easily have done the next section too. But that will have to wait for another weekend.
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Route (with GPX) |
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Time |
1h 55m 42s |
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Distance |
9.10 km |
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Average Heart Rate |
108 bpm |
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Calories Burned |
1170 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.
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Updated a bicycle_parking
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Created 3 waste_baskets; Updated 3 bus_stops, 2 benches, and 2 waste_baskets
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Merge branch 'xdebug_3_5'
Merged pull request #1071
Fixed issue #2411: Native Path Mapping is not applied to the initial …
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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'
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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
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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.
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