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squirmelia2023-06-18 08:54 pmChallenge II.(a) asks you to walk outwards from a railway terminus for a specific length of time, following the railway line as closely as possible. I’ve been doing a modified version of this in stages for a few years, walking from West Croydon to London Bridge.
Two years ago I reported on an earlier stage of this, and now I have finally finished it. Here’s my map. I find it quite interesting to see how closely I could stick to the line in some places, and how much I had to detour in others.
( A few photos below the cut. )I also took many many photos of railway bridge identifiers, which I seem to be collecting.
It’s June! Get going on your challenges. (bob has just set off on the first one of his.)
It’s nearly time for the June challenge! I’m hoping to get more of it done this year, since my breathing difficulties seem to be on their way to being fixed.
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:
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flaneurs swag for a few years now, but I still have some supplies (stickers, badges, and postcards) if anyone wants some to mark successful completion of a challenge.
squirmelia2019-04-14 09:02 pmHere'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.
bob did I.c [post] and II.b [post] in London.el_staplador did II.b in Cambridge [post].nanila did III.a in London [comment].nou did I.c in London (and a tiny bit in Surrey) [post].secretlondon did I.b [post] and III.a [post] in London.This means that bob and secretlondon did two themes, while el_staplador, nanila, nou, and philandstuff all did one theme. Congratulations to all participants, and special congratulations to
el_staplador, nanila, and philandstuff as first-time participants!
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.
Like we did in 2016, in 2014, in 2013, and in 2012, bob and I made simultaneous attempts at Theme I: Buses, subtheme (c) (get on the first bus that comes along, stay on for n stops, get off, repeat), starting from the same stop, with me taking n=5 and him taking n=6.
This year we did it from a different stop, since I was fed up of going up and down London Road on buses. We chose Poplar Walk, which is just around the corner from our old stop.
bob went on a very loopy journey which involved going to Purley twice (we coincided on the first visit, and broke for lunch at Cafe Blue) and through West Croydon bus station at least twice. My journey was rather less loopy, and ended up at a featureless roundabout just over the Surrey border.
So my London bus flânage actually extended outside London. It wasn’t enormously exciting, though — the only place it took me that I hadn’t been before was the roundabout at the end, which was quite boring. Hopefully next year will be better!
Hello Flâneurs! If you have any pending June challenge reports, please get them in ASAP since I’ll be doing a roundup within the next week.
Also a request for feedback. I’ve been wondering for a while whether doing the challenge in a solstice month is a bad idea. June is generally quite hot in London, and last year I backed out on doing one of the challenges because I couldn’t face the heat. Would an equinox month be better? In practice, unless someone else is willing to admin the challenge, this would mean March, since I have a recurring commitment in September that takes up a lot of my time.
So a poll! This is not binding, just to get an idea of opinions. Please feel free to opinionate in comments too or instead.
Should we switch the Flâneurs challenge month from June to March?
We did a bus flanage again this year and started from somewhere new but kept our numbers the same.
The map is very loopy
el_staplador2018-06-24 04:30 pmsecretlondon2018-06-12 08:55 pm
secretlondon2018-06-12 07:55 pm 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.
secretlondon reminded me that it’s nearly time for the June challenge! My respiratory health is terrible at the moment and so I’m not certain I’ll be able to participate, but I’ll be eagerly reading other people’s reports regardless.
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.
bob did I.c [post] and III.d [map with photos] in London.dooriya did I.b [post] and III.d [post].nou did II.a [post] in London.secretlondon did I.b [post] and III.a [post] in London.spiralsheep did II.b [post] in Penzance, II.c [post] in Tewkesbury, and III.d [post] in Torbay.squirmelia did I.c [comment] in London and III.d [post] in Kraków.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!
spiralsheep2017-06-25 01:58 pm