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/1110/2002 Archived Entry: "Walking in Sunshine"
I had a very nice walk to work this morning. I took Roger's advice and followed the New River Walk. And it was rather lovely. It's a very thin patch of greenery that wends its way down between Upper Street and Essex Road and, as it's name suggests has some water. 'River' is, perhaps, stretching it a bit much. It is, instead, a rather sluggish, slightly dirty and pondweed covered stream. But it's surrounded by trees and has a nice windy path through it. Think of a much shorter, much thinner Jesmond Dene and you're pretty much there, really. Although the stream wasn't anything spectacular - it is actually nicer than I described it - it did have some water creatures in it. I saw several ducks and a heron - with a dead frog in its mouth. Oh, and lots of grey squirrels. Which, although they are rodents, are still kind of cute. And, even batter, it doesn't seem to take me any longer to get to work walking this way than just going straight down Essex Road.
Had a silly link sent to me this morning. Punk Kittens. Someone has far too much time on there hands. Unfortunately, I think it may be me...
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I'm glad you like the New River Walk, I remember it from 30 years ago when Jean's mother Skip used to live in Petherton Road. In fact the New River used to bring water to London (Sadler's Wells) from Hertfordshire and there's a walk all the way now: see http://www.ramblers.org.uk/info/paths/newriver.html though the water only gets as far as Stoke Newington now.
Posted by Roger Cornwell @ 10/11/2002 07:06 PM GMT