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 |
For the full photo series, see my Flickr set.
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TIL that Kingfishers can hover just like hummingbird. I'll hopefully have some reasonable shots after I've gone through my nearly thousand shots today...
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Updated a restaurant
Updated a vacant business
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I think this was my favourite photo of the set that I took. It's not at maximum coverage, but it does have a sun spot group (4508) just on the cusp of the terminator.
#eclipse #eclipse2026 #SolarEclipse #London #Astronomy #AstroPhotography #Photography
No totality here in London, but still had a great evening out in the local park and taking some snaps.
I did have a nice Solar Filter that I made for my lens, and had many conversations with people from different backgrounds. Kids loves to look through my filter after I was done (ran out of battery power).
More photos later...
#london #eclipse2026 #eclipse #photography
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Merged pull request #1100
Fixed issue #2267: Application slow when debugger is not listening on…
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I walked 3.0km in 1h10m24s
Is there somebody who runs PHP on native windows (with Xdebug) and can run a simple script for me?
It must be in a file (`test.php`):
```
<?php
echo microtime(true), "\n";
xdebug_connect_to_client();
echo microtime(true), "\n";
```And run like:
php -dxdebug.log_level=11 -dxdebug.log=c:\temp\xdebug-i.log -dxdebug.client_host=localhost -dxdebug.client_port=9111 -dxdebug.mode=debug c:\temp\test.php
With the port 9111 not open.
Would love to see the output and log file (in a DM).
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@harry_wood This is this list of 100 Go-mistakes that I was talking about: https://100go.co/
Updated a crossing
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Enjoying my afternoon and evening out at Lords for some cricket!
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Updated a gate
Updated a bakery shop
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