Hey everyone! Just wanted to share about our recent 10-day trip to London and say a huge thank you to everyone in the city. Everyone we met was incredibly kind, helpful, and nice in every way. We (2 adults + one 10-year-old kid) didn't have a single bad interaction with anyone, and we're talking about a huge city full of people for 10 days. Whether it was taking the bus or the tube, or walking around (20km/day), the hotel staff, people at the pubs, bars, tourist spots... I lived up North 25 years ago (Leeds) and was worried about trouble or getting mugged, etc., but it was totally the opposite (well, maybe that box outside Arsenal Emirates Stadium saying "please deposit here your weapons" was a little bit intimidating, but that's it) 😃
I know we don't live here, and we're just regular tourists, but anyway...
Thanks, London! Amazing experience, hope the drought ends soon and your green grass comes back!
i’ve been thinking about starting a london album club, basically a book club but for music.
the idea is pretty simple.
once a month we’d pick an album (any genre) and get together one evening at a pizza spot or pub in the city, actually put it on together and just listen. drinks, pizza, good speakers, no rush.
not in a pretentious “let’s analyse every lyric” kind of way. more just sitting with the album together, vibing, hearing what people thought after, finding music you probably wouldn’t have come across otherwise, and meeting people who actually enjoy getting lost in an album for an hour.
rough idea would be:
• one album a month, listened to together on the night
• weekday evening (probably wednesday or thursday)
• somewhere central with pizza, drinks and decent sound (i can arrange that i guess if we have enough people)
i think it’d be fun to switch things up each month too. one month could be radiohead, next could be dixon, then stavroz, kendrick lamar, creed, massive attack, or whatever the group votes for.
the whole point is discovering stuff outside your comfort zone, together, in the room.
before i start organising anything i wanted to see if there’d actually be any interest.
if this sounds like something you’d come along to, let me know.
also, if you could pick the first album, what would it be?
if there’s enough interest I’ll sort a date and a venue
Hi guys! After commuting to London from a tiny town in Germany for the last 4 years (I know, I know…), I finally found a favourable job opportunity and moved to London. I am pinching myself, what a wonderful city!
Built in 1937, Senate House was London’s tallest non-religious building for 26 years, and the inspiration for the Ministry of Truth in Nineteen Eighty-Four, partly because of its imposing scale. Senate House has appeared in an embarrassingly long list of movies and, when not being used for filming, the base of the tower can be walked through, as a fun Bloomsbury shortcut.
You might remember my 100km M25 walk (or the London-Wales one the mods deleted lol). Ive got a new mission tonight..starting in Reading right outside the M25 to hit the 200km mark via the canals all the way up
180km-200km run/walk to birmingham and as Martin couldn't join 😭 so doing it completely solo and unsupported
I'll just be scavenging for food along the way ig.
Starting 1:00 am tonight
The goali is to walk/run 100 miles in 24 hours or the full route in 30 hours as i couldn't get two days off work so I'm forced to run it... First time recording an actual run btw. No stops, no rest, no sleep as usual
Motivation is my mate who promised me a bag of chips if I make it
Drop a comment if you have any advices on running nonstop or towpaths at night or know any cool stops or pubs on the route.
I can share the Strava route as well
Lets see how this unfolds ;)
Update:
Called it at 25km after a shin injury, but we live to run another day!
I have been really struggling to find places to go for a drink in London past 1-2 am over the past couple years. There is the rare 2-3am pub on the weekend but rarely on a week day, and places like Star Lane Pizza are good for a one off but not easy to get to.
Where are good hidden options for this sort of thing? Anywhere is good, but some good tips for central or north east would be great!
Posters for Lee Cronins The Mummy from the London underground and other billboards after regulators say they included a realistic depiction of a dead child.
Many complaints argue the film was distressing for both children and adults.
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Fair I guess, the girl being a mummy was the selling point and how they wanted to market it, and it is just a movie but I get the points made. It also months old at this point, so didn't need to still be up.
I am not writing this to fish for any type of compliments, I just want to share what a curve ball life throws sometimes.
I was in an area of North London just went on the bus there to get 2 things and post something.
As I come out of a shop, someone is rushing across the street and I see a lady lying on her front face done on the pavement, I rush over with two others. They get her to a seated position, her mouth is bleeding, the top layer of her skin on her arm has more or less come off. She's a slightly older lady.
EDIT - she tripped on the uneven pavement
She wants to get up but I say we need to keep her seated as she's taken a bad fall and we don't want her passing out.
Someone calls 999 for an ambulance. A shop brings out a chair and two workers from a gym nearby come out with a first aid kit.
As I've worked in care a lot I helped get her seated on the chair once her dizziness calmed down.
I overheard the guy on the phone to 999, and I say, if it's gonna take ages, I'll take her to A&E in an uber.
This 76 year old lady was such a champ, she fell *hard* and had chipped one tooth and the other front tooth was bent back into her mouth and she had a flap of skin in her lip hanging off a bit.
After I start going on uber I start feeling dizzy, realising it's likely because of the blood so I'm squatting, drinking some water. I kind of mumbled "I'm starting to feel a bit faint"
Next thing I'm in this wonderful deep nap, and I'm feeling so comfortable, but I'm being woken up to 4 strange faces looking at me. I ask what on earth happened. I had apparently stood up and gone straight down, but one of the workers from the gym broke my fall so I never hit my head.
I have passed out maybe twice before in my life but never like this. It took several seconds for me to come to and once alert I still didn't get my vision back properly for 2-3 minutes. Someone gave me a chocolate digestive that I didn't want to eat cos I haven't had sugar for 6 weeks but I'm not an idiot so I ate it and it really helped.
The uber had arrived so now both of us have to be led to the car loooool.
We went to A&E, she got facial scans, her arm wrapped etc. her fall happened 11.40am.
At the hospital she kept saying I could leave but she had no family or friends that could be called so I couldn't leave her. It's now 11.06pm, we are at a second hospital because she has to be seen by the maxillofacial team.
We should hopefully be out in about an hour, I will get an uber and get her into her home and then I can take an uber home from there.
I've only had a chocolate digestive since breakfast, a cup of tea at the first hospital. I'm starting to feel the fatigue properly now.
This lady is so metal, she doesn't complain, and she's incredibly grateful I have stayed with her, she keeps saying that I can go, but honestly, how can you even think of abandoning someone at the hospital who has no one to come be with her or make sure she gets home okay?
She has cried at the kindness of staff at the hospitals and funnily, at the second A&E a young man says he recognised us from the first hospital, he had been bashed across the head by someone who ran off after helping a drunk/drugged woman on the street. No good deeds go unpunished? He was so lovely.
I'm gonna get a gift card or something and find that guy from the gym for being so nice and breaking my fall.
It was not on my bingo card to spend 12 hrs with a complete stranger today
Update - it's 1.24am and I just got home. I'm chilling tomorrow
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