Theme I. (c) - June 2018
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We did a bus flanage again this year and started from somewhere new but kept our numbers the same.
- twitter thread
- flickr album
- youtube playlist(Might autoplay)
- map
The map is very loopy
We did a bus flanage again this year and started from somewhere new but kept our numbers the same.
The map is very loopy
As is seemingly customary once again I have done the walking of a column in the A-Z aka II(b).
I did page 162 column A
This tuesday will be bus riding day.
Here are the themes: theme I: buses, theme II: lines, theme III: doing something different. Here are reports from previous years: I.(a), I.(b), I.(c), I.(d), II.(a), II.(b), II.(c), II.(d), III.(a), III.(b), III.(c), III.(d), III.(e).
To complete the challenge, all you need to do is:
As before, various bits of flaneurs swag will be offered to everyone who completes the challenge. The more themes you try, the more swag you get.
(Swag is currently stickers, badges, and postcards. I would be very grateful to anyone who can volunteer to organise a different type. You don’t have to be able to afford to pay for it — I have that covered — just able to decide what it should be and then make it happen.)
Here's the roundup for this year's June challenge! Below is the list of who did what — please let me know of any errors or omissions.
This means that bob,
dooriya,
secretlondon,
spiralsheep, and
squirmelia all did two themes, while
nou did one theme. Congratulations to all participants, and special congratulations to
dooriya as a first-time participant!
flaneurs swag is available to everyone who did at least one theme of the challenge. We have button badges, postcards, and stickers. If you did one theme, you get one thing, if you did two themes, you get two things, and if you did all three themes, you get all three things. Please message or email me (kake@earth.li) with a postal address and your choice(s) of prizes, and I'll get them sent out ASAP.
I only managed one attempt at the June challenge this year: a modified version of Theme II.(a): Lines.
The full version of this challenge involves starting at a railway terminal and walking outwards from the terminus, following one of the railway lines as closely as possible. I’ve been doing this in stages from West Croydon Station to London Bridge Station, and this month I did a new stage.
I was originally going to walk from Tulse Hill to East Dulwich, but my lungs were playing up so I stopped at North Dulwich; i.e. I only walked one stop. Here’s a map showing my route so far (plus the bit I intended to but didn’t walk, which will be done next time), and here’s a photoset including all stages so far.
I photographed quite a lot of railway bridge identifiers on this one, since secretlondon and I are collecting them, and railway line walks are a very good source. My favourite photo is the one below, showing the premises of a “Fibrous Plaster Specialists”.
Someone came out just after I took it and asked me why I was taking photos. They seemed a bit offended by my use of the phrase “old sign”, oops. They were very keen to make it clear that the business is still going!