alexsarll | almost blatantly immemorial (Reply)

I suppose with Google Streetview available my urban explorations have become even more inexplicable and archaic - but since when was that a bad thing? On Tuesday I took the W3 to the end of the line - the end I don't live at, clearly. All these years of seeing them headed to Northumberland Park, and now I've seen it. There isn't much to see; once you get past Wood Green and into darkest Haringey, through White Hart Lane and Tottenham High Road, it's only the odd name which gives you any clue you're in London - normally you can at least tell that you're in a crappy bit of London, but here you could be on the more depressing fringes of Derby, or even (gods help us) Leicester. I did manage to thread my way through an industrial estate to Tottenham Marshes, but even that...it has herons to disturb, and a canal boat population which seems to be halfway to becoming a pirate kingdom, but I have encountered no London open space so thoroughly littered. And once you start heading up towards Walthamstow (its border with Tottenham coming across as though it could easily be sealed in time of war), there's a uniquely disturbing nature reserve where it's difficult to tell how whoever's set up a makeshift shack in the middle of the thicket establishes boundaries with the cottagers of whom the ground provides copious evidence. I suppose wildlife often does best in environments least welcoming to humans, and this is hardly Chernobyl.

I'm sufficiently behind with Battlestar Galactica that, in the week where most people are still OMG-ing over the finale, I've just watched Razor. Which doesn't suck like some of the one-off episodes do, but has the common problem of retcons - why was this never mentioned before? Partly dodged by the focus on a new character, but again - why should I invest in this character when the mere fact of us being in a flashback is a pretty good clue that she's not going to make it? Also, as has been pointed out elsewhere, that is not a razor, you twits.
I really should get Season 4 pretty pronto.

Today: the zoo, and 18 Carat Love Affair at 93 Feet East (which works quite well, doesn't it, both starting with numbers like that).