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 Sunday, April 12, 2026

I've been all over London over the last few days, but only to places I've blogged about before.

On Tuesday I went to the station I wrote about in June 2021 and took the train I told you about in May 2022 to the town whose MP I told you about in January 2026. I alighted my next train opposite the department store I told you about in February 2018 and caught the bus I told you about in June 2016 to the park I told you about in February 2009. Then it was on to the roundabout I told you about in April 2008 via the arterial route I told you about in March 2024 to the restaurant I told you about in Unblogged November 2022. Here I crossed the evacuation route I told you about in January 2014 and the waymarked path I told you about in December 2021 before switching to the tube line I told you about in March 2013. One stop later I alighted near the greenspace I told you about in March 2009 before catching a rare bus I told you about in June 2023 to the section of the London Loop I told you about in October 2014. Here a bus I told you about in January 2020 took me to a statue I told you about in April 2008, and another took me to the level crossing I told you about in July 2023. I went one stop to the town I told you about in January 2008 and caught the bus I told you about in January 2019 past the trig point I told you about in October 2004. My next buses took me past the footballing sights I told you about in April 2009, to the terminus I queried in June 2025, along the seasonal road I told you about in December 2024 and past the power station I told you about in April 2024. My next target was alongside the square I told you about in July 2025 before hopping back to a new station I told you about in March 2019. My final bus, which I told you about in December 2014, took me to a train service I told you about in September 2019, after which I came home past allotments I told you about in September 2021. All previously blogged, so nothing to blog here.

On Wednesday I travelled along the High Street I told you about in August 2008 to the sculpture I told you about in March 2012. Here I caught a train I first told you about in June 2017 to the place on the London Loop I reached in May 2014. My first bus passed the public toilets I told you about in January 2024 and the collection of streets I told you about in April 2018 to a road I told you about in January 2012. I told you about the next suburb in some detail in January 2019, including its fork and its library, also about this bus corridor in December 2019. I switched buses opposite the clocktower I told you about in May 2023, finally boarding the bus whose route number I queried in July 2023. This took me through suburbs I told you about in October 2024 and November 2015 respectively, then past the foot of a hill I told you about in August 2006, August 2014 and December 2022. From the bus station I moaned about in December 2022 I rode the tube line I told you about in June 2013 to the shopping centre I told you about in December 2017. Another bus I told you about in July 2024 took me to a road junction I told you about in May 2004 and the venue of a meeting I told you about in May 2019. A little-used station I told you about in November 2017 then propelled me to a lost river I told you about in January 2010 and a supermarket I told you about in February 2013. Improbably my next target was the start of a walk I told you about in October 2024, then I headed to two towns whose museums I told you about in October 2009 and April 2010. A bus I told you about in November 2014 then took me to a shopping parade I told you about in February 2026. From here I took a train across a section of the Capital Ring I told you about in April 2011 to a station I told you about in March 2022 beneath a sign I told you about in September 2025. Then home to use a kettle I told you about in February 2020. All previously blogged, so nothing to blog here.

On Thursday I passed the statue I told you about in August 2003 to take the train through the station I told you about in December 2007 to a cavern I first told you about in September 2012. I briefly visited a tourist hotspot I told you about in May 2016 before backtracking to a historic building I told you about in March 2024. I next paused beside a gallery I told you about in April 2018 before continuing to a bridge I told you about in April 2013 and passing a museum I told you about in March 2016. From a market I told you about in October 2008 I circuited a shopping mall I told you about in October 2018 to an iconic building I told you about in October 2013 in a suburb whose Olympic history I told about in you April 2008. My next bus took me past a former ice cream parlour I told you about in Unblogged September 2018 to a lost river I told you about in September 2010, then it was back past a cultural centre I told you about in September 2018 and a quick ride on a piddly bus route I told you about in December 2019. I avoided the very long tunnel at the station I told you about in November 2004, continuing to the suburb I told you about in April 2021 and looking down into the tunnel entrance I told you about in June 2008. I'm not doing that one again. From there I walked past the library I told you about in December 2011 and burrowed in a subterranean manner to the capitalist temple I derided in September 2024, before heading home through the hinterland I told you about in March 2018. All previously blogged, so nothing to blog here.

On Friday I nipped first to the cooking sauces aisle I told you about in March 2017 before returning home across the roundabout I told you about in more months than I care to imagine. Suitably unladen I passed the launderette I told you about in February 2005 and rode the tube lines I told you about in April 2013 and September 2013 respectively. I dodged the elephant I told you about in November 2013 and then made three fairly pointless stops: a) by the lost river I told you about in February 2010, b) in the postcode I told you about in January 2020, c) alongside the path I told you about in November 2022. My ultimate destination was near the waterworks I told you about in September 2024, specifically the suburb I told you about in July 2022, but not quite as far as the engines I told you about in November 2007 or the tower I told you about in February 2012. After much wandering I headed to the suburb I told you about in January 2017 because that was the quickest way to the neighbourhood I told you about in July 2025. Stupidly I left the train after the park I told you about in September 2023 because there were no buses so I had to walk past the studios I told you about in July 2008 and the famous window I told you about in March 2005. Alas the railway I first told you about in July 2003 was suspended so I had to head home via the roundel I told you about in August 2013, also the hotel I told you about in September 2019, the pub I told you about in August 2019 and the urinals I told you about in June 2012. All previously blogged, so nothing to blog here.

Yesterday I went all over the place, sorry, including the shopping precinct I told you about in December 2017, the lost river I told you about in August 2010, the plaque I told you about in December 2007, the borderline outpost I told you about in May 2017, the infrequent bus I told you about in December 2014, the town centre I told you about in October 2006, the cocky corner I told you about in July 2022, the isolated estate I told you about in March 2025, the high point I told you about in August 2014, the section of the London Loop I told you about in September 2015, the famous residences I told you about in January 2023, the Superloop route I told you about in February 2024, the constituency I told you about in June 2024, the mansion I told you about in April 2011, another clocktower I told you about in May 2023, the peculiarly-named locality I told you about in October 2022, the bend in the road I told you about in March 2022, the farm I told you about in October 2015, the lost river I told you about in May 2024, another high point I told you about in August 2014, the Olympic venue I told you about in September 2012, the town I told you about in January 2009, the football stadium I told you about in October 2009, the roadworks I told you about in January 2026, the IKEA I told you about in February 2019, the aerial folly I first told you about in March 2011, the sponsored tent I told you about in June 2007, the clocks I told you about in May 2004, the town hall I told you about in May 2006, the art gallery I told you about in June 2004 and the 700 year-old church I told you about in November 2011. All previously blogged, so nothing to blog here.

That's the problem with a blog that's been all over London, you've heard it all already.


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