Pics from your State Sanctioned Exercise.
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brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Went up the Croydon alps funicular to the end of the line today. Stopped off half-way to pick up some Kenley mint cake in case we became benighted, obvs. Walked so far out into the countryside that we had to get a blue, yes blue, bus and the driver fella said that Oysters were no good; we had to pay real money.
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Leafster
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There's something vaguely familiar about those photos but I can't quite put my finger on it!
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Was it you with the Brandy barrel carrying St Bernards at the col?There's something vaguely familiar about those photos but I can't quite put my finger on it!
Leafster
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Carrying a barrel of brandy AND the St Bernards has done my back in. I won't be doing that again in a hurry for the tourists.
I'll stick to snowboard tricks on the half-pipe in future.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Joshing aside, as a local I'm sure you'll appreciate this true tale from our walk. Once we'd sauntered down to the motorway, crossed the bridge and struck out for Godstone, we were taking a drinks break at North Park farm (before cutting across the fields on the FP) when a Police car rolled up and stopped. OB (BTP) wound down the window and asked if we were locals? So I said "no, not really...but we had just walked the entire road ahead of them". OB1 then asked me if there was a railway line up ahead?
Helpfully, I told him that I was aware of a motorway and a chalk escarpment, but no railway! Makes you wonder....
Leafster
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There were a lot of police cars around at the weekend so I guess some of them won't have been local but even so, you'd expect them to have access to SatNav or some sort of online map. If they were looking for the cross-country line through South Godstone they were definitely in the wrong place.Joshing aside, as a local I'm sure you'll appreciate this true tale from our walk. Once we'd sauntered down to the motorway, crossed the bridge and struck out for Godstone, we were taking a drinks break at North Park farm (before cutting across the fields on the FP) when a Police car rolled up and stopped. OB (BTP) wound down the window and asked if we were locals? So I said "no, not really...but we had just walked the entire road ahead of them". OB1 then asked me if there was a railway line up ahead?
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Yep, thems was my thoughts.
Leafster
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Ha! I think I've just worked it out. They wanted SOUTH Park Farm which is very near to the cross-country railway line to the west of South Godstone.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Got it; the Bletchingley Tunnel.
Leafster
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Yes, I think there’s a bit of a tunnel. But the farm is on South Park Lane as opposed to North Park Lane where you were and it’s near the tunnel entrance. There’s some photos I took up thread of a ride I took down there and there might have even been a tunnel ventilation turret in one of them.
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SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
BoatieBird
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Morning walk around Delapre Lake
stethoscope
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We might manage a 'Spot the ACG sticker' thread at this rate... here's one I didn't expect to see a few months back walking up Scarborough castle mound
Ground Elder
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kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
Ok, not exactly recent, but kind of State Sanctioned related...
We took the kids for a little Mid-Wales adventure tripa bit of widening some social horizons stuff. We stayed at an old style, non-YHA YHA at Tyncornel in the Cambrian mountains. No phone, no internet, no tv, not much of a road...
We took the kids for a little Mid-Wales adventure tripa bit of widening some social horizons stuff. We stayed at an old style, non-YHA YHA at Tyncornel in the Cambrian mountains. No phone, no internet, no tv, not much of a road...
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