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Hey, PP, that's quite a funky look, with the OP eye patch/bandana.
PurplePenguin
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I'm well-known now too. The glory.
Electric_Andy
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I can still remember my friends number that I last called in 1991 (as we then went to different secondary schools). I also remember my aunts and uncles, grandparents numbers as I used to call them a lot from the landline. We did have a little phone book, but most people remembered friends and family
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Maybe it's just your member that's well-known.
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Ha, by the by, it shows how long it is since I travelled on London Underground that I didn't understand why there wasn't a queue of people at the ticket machines at St Pancras at 8am. I persevered, putting in my destination (South Ken), and the machine told me not to be an idiot and just to tap my phone on entry and exit.
Nicely surprised with the £2.80 cost.
Genuinely can't remember the previous time I'd done the tube, but I have fond memories from the mid 1980s of getting Zone 1&2 daily rover tickets for not much (about £4?), and spending days just randomly going to places I'd heard of, going for a wander round there, then disappearing down below again to go somewhere else to re-emerge.
Nicely surprised with the £2.80 cost.
Genuinely can't remember the previous time I'd done the tube, but I have fond memories from the mid 1980s of getting Zone 1&2 daily rover tickets for not much (about £4?), and spending days just randomly going to places I'd heard of, going for a wander round there, then disappearing down below again to go somewhere else to re-emerge.
First Aspect
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10 minutes on escalators, a 5 minute wait and 5 minutes on a cramped train totally saves the 15 minute walk.
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That's why I walked from RoyBrom to Paddington, but St Pancreatic to Roy Brom was quite a step, plus I had the surreal experience of seeing St P platform absolutely rammed and completely, and I mean *completely* silent. Londoners are just the weirdest people when they are in The Tube Experience.
PurplePenguin
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You can walk from St Pancras to South Ken in 15 mins? It's 4 miles.
First Aspect
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No idea, when I'm in London I tend to use the tube.
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Yeah, Google Maps had it down as over an hour's walk, in the rain, at 8am, so I did what a wise man like you or @PurplePenguin would do, especially if one had a dodgy ticker, and took the tube.
Incidentally, my other observation is that London still has a *very* long way to go to make it properly bike friendly, at least around SK and between SK & Paddington. I was surprised by how car-dominated most of the places I walked were, and pretty chaotic car-dom too. Not inviting for any cyclists, especially those of a slightly nervous disposition.
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Incidentally, I thought of RJS and his rainy London photos at dusk, as I walked past the Science Museum in the rain, and amusingly he commented on my photo of the Science Museum on Instagram, saying that I picked the wrong day to by in London, as it's been lovely there today.
PurplePenguin
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Between South Ken and Paddington is Hyde Park - a decent option for cyclists.
First Aspect
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Didn't seem too bad last summer. I did a few walks from Paddington to Harley Street and Farringdon. I mean it didn't look like you could get more than a few hundred yards at a time bit it did seem benign.
Probably I've just described a totally different part of London. It is all the same to my eye and even though I grew up 20 miles away I never did get to grips with the basic geography.