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no really, I have

Seem to have discovered twitter. Username same as here.

Did good bit more of Belgrave on Wednesday, followed by lots of the West End on Thursday. On Friday I met up with [livejournal.com profile] eldritchreality for a late lunch, then with [livejournal.com profile] riak in the evening at firebug. where we were randomly joined by [livejournal.com profile] djlostbot and [livejournal.com profile] beltainethecat's pet human and a couple of their friends. Alcoholic beverages were consumed.

On Saturday [livejournal.com profile] ioannab and I went to Market Harborough and back via some very odd routes, trying to trace National Cycle Network route 6 and 64. The routes were quite low-traffic but insanely hilly. These should appear on the cycle map sometime later this week. Also, we saw lots of horses.

back from Leicester on Sunday, along the usually freight-only Oakham to Kettering Line. Since it was a class 222 with its evil anti-signal windows, I failed to get a GPS trace. Didn't bring bicycle to London in end, I had too much other luggage. May keep bicycle in Leicester until I have finished mapping it.

Pembury on Sunday was not bad. I sorted the Carcassonne tiles out for the expansions from the base set, and then we (me, [livejournal.com profile] timeplease, [livejournal.com profile] elise, [livejournal.com profile] aquarionical) had an actual game of normal Carcassone for the first time in ages. Tiles are now marked on the back so this problem will not arise again. Still need to sort out the Traders and Builders and King and Scout tiles from each other.

[livejournal.com profile] aquarionical brought along Risk Express, which was indeed less tedious than Risk (in fact, it seems to be a different game that has then had some of the same names for things added to it) but also seemed to even less skill (possibly I am only saying this because I lost).
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So today I went to Leicester and then I bought a bicycle. Had a little go on it (the light was going), and it's true, you don't forget. I spoke a bit to the guy who runs the bike shop (it's the little one in the corner of the Town Hall) and he seemed interested in the mapping. The cycle maps they did have done partly by the city council, from 1998, have now all run out and the council are not interested in reprinting, despite demand from customers! Gave him the link to the cycle layer. They could certainly sell printed OSM cycle maps of Leicester. Hopefully not too distant I will have got all the data acquisiton done and then we can see about doing that sort of thing.
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you know, it was No Car Today in Holborn, and they fenced off Gate Street and a couple of others for it. this would be great if Gate Street wasn't a pedestrianised alley. missing the point rather! It's No Car Day! so fence off KINGSWAY. muhaha.

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