Friday 19 June 2020

Jubilee Way anticlockwise (failed)


I thought to extend the Ruxley Lane anticlockwise this morning by extending to Jubilee Way in darkest Chessington, in London. 

Start at the blob in the usual way and make my way south onto the top of West Hill. Turn east through Epsom and then swing north east up East Street. Northwest and past Ruxley Lane to take a left into Jubilee Way. In London now, so more heavy traffic and more pot holes in the road - some quite big enough to be unpleasant if you hit them without seeing them first. Jubilee Way down to the bend to the point marked 'α', where I should have gone straight over, down towards the public house which used to be called the 'Blackamoor's Head'. First error. Instead, I go through a substantial industrial estate in the region of Cox Lane. Then hit Hook Road, head south through Hook, passing the 'North Star, a house I have never visited in the thirty years we have been in Epsom, now an Ember Inn so possibly too late, and then turn east, that is to say left, into Bridge Road and head west, back towards the other end of Ruxley Lane. Onto the outskirts of Ewell West to make my second error at the point marked 'β', where I fail to swing right into (another stretch of) Hook Road, and carry straight on through Ewell West. I suppose I was getting a bit tired by this point. Thought about an outside bacon sandwich on white (not toasted) at the Luna Café, open for takeaway only, but outside chairs provided. South south west down Longmead Road, where there were some more impressive potholes, despite being back in Surrey, then the short dog-leg around the one-way system before making it back to the blob.

About an hour and a half all told.

Along the way I learn that it is quite hard to work the (HP) mouse so as to get nice smooth lines when doing this sort of thing with Microsoft Snip & Sketch. I gave up trying to make the home blob into a decent circular disc: it just kept growing without getting any more circular. No doubt graphic designers have something better in the way of both mice and screens.

With thanks to the Controller of the Ordnance Survey for the use of one of his maps.

PS: I have just heard that in the course of the celebration of De Gaulle's period of exile in London - a period when it seems that he learned to hate the English - President Macron has apologised to England on behalf of the French Nation for the Norman Conquest and Prime Minister Johnson, not to be outdone on such an occasion, has apologised to France on behalf of the English Nation for the Battle of Agincourt - at which time the UK had still to wait some hundreds of years before it came into being, so not really appropriate to apologise on behalf of the UK. Or indeed, to the UK. Of course we were more sporting than the Normans, as we did not find it necessary to kill the French king during our battle, although we did kill his deputy.

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