Pics from your State Sanctioned Exercise.

[Bahnhof Strasse]

 

[brogdale]

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I love it when you get that shimmering blue haze over the high weald in the distance from the ND.

 

[brogdale]

I love it when you get that shimmering blue haze over the high weald in the distance from the ND.

My fave spot for that is up on Mariner's hill between Crockham Hill and Chartwell. A bit further along the ND from you, but on a clear day there's a good view back West towards the Surrey hills.

 

[marty21]

Late afternoon walk in my Manor Train paused on the marshes .In the foreground old Leyton, a scrapyard , fancy new blocks in the background. Close up of the fancy pants new blocks opposite Lea Bridge Road Station.Sunset Sunset , Lea Bridge Road , and Leyton Marsh.

 

[Leafster]

My fave spot for that is up on Mariner's hill between Crockham Hill and Chartwell. A bit further along the ND from you, but on a clear day there's a good view back West towards the Surrey hills.

You've just got me checking out the bridleways between me and Mariner's Hill! It seems reasonable except for getting round Oxted. Don't they have any horsey folk there?!

 

[brogdale]

The Herons down at Carshalton ponds appear to be getting really 'tame' and unafraid of close photographers! This one was was conveniently standing up on top of the war memorial...



Was really lovely down there today...

 

[marty21]

views from the meadows on Leyton Marsh , fancy blocks in Leyton reflecting the sun, and Hackney Marshes

And pylons , many pylons .

 

[Elpenor]

My fave spot for that is up on Mariner's hill between Crockham Hill and Chartwell. A bit further along the ND from you, but on a clear day there's a good view back West towards the Surrey hills.

Wrote my car off on a hairpin bend just by Crockham Hill :-(

 

[ginger_syn]

Yesterday.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

 

[Leafster]

Wrote my car off on a hairpin bend just by Crockham Hill :-(

Another reason for me struggling to find a bike route around Oxted to Mariner's Hill is that I had a car written off by a quarry lorry on Chalk Pit Hill and I've always been reluctant to travel on it since. The memory of 30 odd tonnes of lorry, unable to stop, pushing me down the hill and into a bank is difficult to forget!

 

[Elpenor]

Another reason for me struggling to find a bike route around Oxted to Mariner's Hill is that I had a car written off by a quarry lorry on Chalk Pit Hill and I've always been reluctant to travel on it since. The memory of 30 odd tonnes of lorry, unable to stop, pushing me down the hill and into a bank is difficult to forget!

I can well imagine that, quite a tricky road that one. My mate once drove a Luton van down White Lane, the other side of Titsey Hill for a laugh, it wasn’t that appreciated by the person he was helping to move house who was in the van at the time.

 

[Leafster]

I can well imagine that, quite a tricky road that one. My mate once drove a Luton van down White Lane, the other side of Titsey Hill for a laugh, it wasn’t that appreciated by the person he was helping to move house who was in the van at the time.

crosses off another route down off the ridge

I think I'll have to go through the Titsey Plantation (Pitchfont Lane?)

 

[Cloo]

Seen better days



Fairies of Finchley

 

[marty21]

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Seen better days

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Fairies of Finchley

A damp rag would sort that out .

 

[Cloo]

Today we did something wild and took the tube to a walk between local stations

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

 

[clicker]

Under the Thames. Driest place today.

 

[kebabking]

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

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Under the Thames. Driest place today.

I love this place soooo much, possibly my favourite place in the world, really can't explain why, my kids are singularly unimpressed when I take them down there.

 

[clicker]

I love this place soooo much, possibly my favourite place in the world, really can't explain why, my kids are singularly unimpressed when I take them down there.

Same. I've unimpressed so many over the years. They just don't get it. No imagination .

 

[clicker]

 

[Artaxerxes]

 

[kebabking]

 

[ginger_syn]

Today in bute park.

 

[marty21]

Had a decent 5 mile late afternoon walk , these were all taken on Leyton Marsh. Some sort of lockdown birthday do at the boat club and bird-y graffiti on the railway bridge.

 

[neonwilderness]

 

[killer b]

I went to see how the mud was doing in the big meadow behind the house

 

[marty21]

I went to see how the mud was doing in the big meadow behind the house

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Disappointing mud , it is way less muddy on the local marshes atm, they have become less marsh-y. They always dry out in the Spring /early Summer.

 

[Cloo]

A walk around St Albans. This street had lots of great Easter displays in people's front windows