#Wandle Park

[insidecroydon]

Shakespeare's Twelfth Night provides park's summer scenes

Summer treat: some of the cast for CODA’s Twelfth Night, being staged in Wandle Park Twelfth Night is this summer’s production at the Bandstand in Wandle Park, marking 10 years of open air theatre in the park by CODA, The Croydon Operatic and Dramatic Association. Shakespeare’s comedy of disguise and hidden love runs from July 31 to August 3, and is the ideal treat for a summer’s evening – with…

[mycandlesblog]

Reflections on the River, Wandle Trail, Ravensbury Park, Merton.

[novumtimes]

Amber warning as more heavy rain to hit flooded areas

BBC More rain will hit parts of England already suffering from flooding, forecasters say. A fresh bout of heavy rain is likely to cause more flooding across parts of England badly hit by downpours earlier this week, the Met Office has warned. A more serious amber warning has been issued for some areas in the midlands and central England, forecasting further flooding and travel disruption as a month’s worth of rain could fall. The new warning is in place from 18:00 on Thursday until 06:00 on Friday, while existing yellow rain warnings remain in place for other parts of England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Areas in central and southern England are still recovering from days of downpours over the weekend and Monday that left roads and fields submerged, rail services disrupted and rivers overflowing. The amber warning covers a chunk of the midlands and central England The Environment Agency has 27 flood warnings and 69 less severe flood alerts in place across England. Some areas covered by the new amber warning could see 30-40mm of rainfall in three hours or less, and perhaps 50-60mm or more in around six hours, the Met Office says. Places under the amber warning include Oxfordshire, Leicestershire, Bedfordshire, Gloucestershire, Cambridgeshire, Buckinghamshire and Worcestershire. Matt Taylor, BBC lead weather presenter, said that some places within the amber warning area could see close to a month’s worth of rain overnight and, given how saturated the ground is following the rain already seen this week, existing flooding could be exacerbated further. More travel disruption is likely and rivers will continue to rise after the rain clears. Some areas covered by the warning have already experienced record September rainfall this month. Parts of Bedfordshire and Oxfordshire, in particular, have seen over three times their normal September rainfall. Yellow rain warnings that remain in place elsewhere are: For northern England east of the Pennines and north-east England until Thursday midnightA separate warning southern England, southern Wales and parts of the Midlands until 09:00 on FridayIn eastern parts of Northern Ireland until 18:00 on Thursday Less rain is forecast in areas under yellow warnings, but heavy downpours could still lead to flooding and transport disruption. Rain is expected to clear later on Friday and the forecast is drier for the weekend, but forecasters say that a few showers cannot be ruled out, but not on the scale seen so far this week. However, it will be colder for all and BBC Weather is monitoring the prospect of more wet, and also windy weather arriving later Sunday and into Monday. Emergency services rescued 43 people from a holiday park in Northampton on Tuesday evening, after caravans were left surrounded by water from a nearby river which had burst its banks. Areas including Buckinghamshire, Northamptonshire and Warwickshire were among the worst hit on Monday, the Met Office said previously. Some places experienced more than a month’s worth of rain in a matter of hours over the weekend and Monday. Football team AFC Wimbledon in south London said its pitch sustained “significant damage” after the nearby River Wandle broke its banks. Source link via The Novum Times

[paper-craniums]

Missed out on writing about last Friday when one went back to school for S’ first day but ☝🏼will still write about it now.

Was nodding off on the train back because one didn’t get any sleep after trying for two hours and so one got up and finished watching the Survivor finale instead in the wee hours. Kicked off the morning with a good ol’ breakfast at Toast Box which ended with a broken saucer and cup when we were returning them. Felt strange having a friend to walk with to school, what more at Aljunied. Dropped S off at Reception and assumed unofficial duties of being a Facilities member and helped move Little Wandle stuff and K walked in right at that moment. Managed to catch up with K for a bit and parked self at the library (of course) until one took S on a walk during lunch and then replanted self at the library afterwards. As soon as S was done with her IT induction, we decided to hit the cafe at the condo next door (!) which was pretty chill and cosy! Funny how it took oneself four years of talking about it before actually checking it out.

So one stayed in on both Saturday and Sunday despite plans to go out but the body seems to want the bed. It’s Sunday as this is being noted at almost five in the afternoon and it has been raining all day since last night and forecast says it’ll stay rainy till March.

Work kicks off all over again tomorrow and highly likely one would not be able to sleep tonight, having woken up late today but also because it’s a Sunday night.

[weekly-magazine-uk]

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[chodhound]

Walking the Walbrook - Part 1

After our mammoth Wandle wander Andy and I decided to walk the far shorter and much more urban Walbrook. We used the following guide:

Here are some photos and assorted other comments about our walk.

The key thing with the Walbrook is that is the saddest of rivers - it is entirely underground and it's path incorporate sewers. Indeed parts of it haven't seen the light for hundreds of years.

We met at Liverpool Street and then walked up to the source of the Walbrook. The first potential source of the Walbrook is a fairly uninspiring pocket urban park - Fairchild's Garden - https://goo.gl/maps/jyjWwq34RRL3xyJo6 - Thomas Fairchild was an important horticulturist whose most important contribution to science was discovering that plants can have a male and female sex.

There's a nice write up here: https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/londons-pocket-parks-fairchilds-garden-e2-29054/

Not much has changed since Ian's visit the large concrete expanse is a disused tennis court and it all feels very unloved.

We mooched on towards Shoreditch Church - https://goo.gl/maps/cpEh8pp49rvgtmRk7 - on the walk we observed interesting street furniture that suggests a drain/sewer/lost river lies beneath our feet.

Here is the alternative source of the Walbrook - at the drinking fountain in the grounds of Shoreditch Church. The actual church was locked up and so we couldn't go instead - but the gardens are charming and relatively well kept. The crossroads outside the front of the church are historied - with pre-Roman, Roman roads meeting.

There is a rather lovely shop front - for Wells & Company - more here: https://lookup.london/shoreditch-commercial-ironworks/ - we were passed by a probably hen-do on some kind of bar/bicycle combination that looked fairly hazardous and tiring. The funky urban vibe of Shoreditch was all around us - street art, bearded men on skateboards, backpackers with sleeve tatoos.

We wandered through the streets admiring the graffiti.

Before arriving at the "Box Office" - the site of a former theatre for Shakespeare - commemorated with a mural of Romeo and Juliet and a statue of the Bard.

Back over towards the Ring Road and more funky grafitti.

Helch has been at it again above the American Carwash - https://www.artofthestate.co.uk/london-graffiti/helch-graffiti/

There's a lovely ghost sign saying something about "Net Factory" above the Manteca restaurant which was doing a roaring trade.

There's a big redevelopment on another former site of a Shakespeare theatre - it's called the Stage - https://www.thestageshoreditch.com/ - they are leaning pretty hard into the history - the Horse & Groom pub on the corner is feeling pretty squashed by the massive shiny new towers but it has a pretty impressive mural of Romeo and Juliet by the street artist Otto Schade.

[nathjonesey-75]

Ticket To Ride

There’s something to be said about moments in time which seem to matter to individuals. Alone, wherever in the world – sometimes, things; whether occasions, milestones, realisations or simply – just moments, simply have to be recorded.

So, as we hurtle and hop to the mid-point of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, the solstice approaching only three days away, today the pen in my hand seems more powerful to me than any object I currently own. While I’ll tick off any box in my head which reads

“Is this a midlife crisis?   Y N

I awoke at 5:44am having fallen asleep just under eight hours previously; tired physically and mentally drained after consuming a Greek vegan gyros and the final accompanying glass of wine. Today, Sunday the eighteenth of June is my only day off this week and the busiest day of 2023 so far – has finally tripped me up with its 158-day leg, as I feel unnaturally emotional and reflective. Having had a lot of inspiration to move ahead with personal projects this year, but with the common “park them until later” clause attached because of work duties – it all had to end sometime.

While I have six weeks remaining of the leaving notice I gave my employers a week ago – in spirit, I’ve already departed. Completing this week was the toughest physical test so far. With insufficient full-time colleagues it was always going to be so. It was the mental test which is the small victory which I’ll claim, having come through a gruelling seven months with a stomach ulcer, wisdom tooth abscess which together created chest and stomach infections and actual health scares. Sometimes you don’t recognise your own health until you can accomplish things which – eight weeks previously you’d have struggled, even failed to accomplish.

Conclusively, as I found myself welling up from feeling overcome by everything humanly possible, I felt the urge to listen to Blur’s “Modern Life Is Rubbish” which recently turned thirty – and like a classic neurodivergent flicker-frame of memories in my head, I remember the times surrounding 1992 and 1993 when I listened to it while going through a tough time, studying for A-Levels and having just lost my grandfather.

Now, at least with the experience if not the wisdom of age, I can see a way forward. A path clearing. Not a clear path, but light opening. Which in a way explain the emotion, suppressed for the better part of a year while in a health compromise. I’ve not disliked my job – more the location, the work framework and its trimmings. Like the health battles for the majority of my time there, the London south-circular road and obstructional rail strikes, forcing me to drive among the overflow of banshees and Neanderthals. Plus slaving for my modern yuppy bosses whose business model – from my perspective – encapsulates Britain in these ghastly Conservative days. Austere, while gluttonous, self-serving and socially numb.

Mitcham Junction reminded me on several occasions of Mos Eisley spaceport in the Star Wars trilogy. A week on the roads surrounding it would be proof enough of the “scum and villainy” in its demographics. Sceptical? Well, only yesterday in the anti-glamorous industrial Wandle Way area a white van (say no more, maybe?) was accelerating aggressively behind me in a 20-miles per hour zone, then overtook me and while I beeped in bewilderment, it swerved onto the main road without looking – with the driver ensuring he gave me the customary “wanker wave” for anyone questioning his right to drive like someone in a Starsky and Hutch chase.

Escaping, into hyperspace, hopefully – I will. Like the Millennium Falcon away from dirty Tatooine, into the great creative space which is London. All of these years of non-belief and unawareness surrounding my neurodivergent condition has seen me passed from pillar to post, from dormitory to den. Now; it’s time to create. While art and culture have been violently minimised by the government in the last decade, like the days of punk in the 1970s and the breakout of rave in the late eighties and early nineties, people need to use their voices.

My Glastonbury ticket finally arrived on Friday. Inadvertently and fortunately in time to go, for the first time. The shambles which is Royal Mail has been sending my mail – even the special delivery mail, like the ticket, to my ex-neighbour’s flat where he moved a fortnight or so ago. Because we share the same surname and lived in the same building, but in different flats. Keeping up with the Joneses is clearly not a policy adopted by our failed national mail delivery service. Thus, the condition that the ticket has reached me kind-of sums up the way I’ve felt this morning – a possible hot ticket which has been stamped in the incorrect places, gone the longer way around but is ready to go. I hope the sun keeps shining and that this festival – not just the biggest music festival, but this crazy carnival called life – will be living up to its promises.

Naturally, I have to give what I have to make it complete. As Shakespeare once said – “what’s past is prologue.” As Jack Nicholson’s Joker stated, “Commence au festival”.

I’m just getting started.

                                                            “Over hill, over dale,

                        ��                                    Thorough bush, thorough brier,

                                                             Over park, over pale,

                                                             Thorough flood, thorough fire;

                                                             I do wander everywhere…”

                                                                        From A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare

[sirjelind]

Jõe ääres (at Wandle Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpshFJdIzV1/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[girlontheunderground]

Later I visited Wandle Park.

[londiniumlundene]

Walking the River Wandle Part 2: The River Emerges

For many years, Wandle Park showed very little traces of its namesake, which had been culverted and buried in 1968. However, in 2012, the river was freed, and now it flows between grassy banks, cutting a course through the middle of the park, attracting wildlife and rubbish alike. At the western edge it disappears back underground again, and here the walker must take a slight detour, first crossing the tracks of Wandle Park tram stop, then through residential streets and across Purley Way, one of the first purpose-built bypasses in Britain, and the first to have sodium street lamps (now replaced with more modern lights).

Water is found again in the form of Waddon Ponds, which, somewhat confusingly, is just a single mill pond, once belonging to the monks of Bermondsey Abbey, and later used to power the now-vanished Waddon Mill’s grindstones. Nowadays the pond is mainly occupied by waterfowl, with rats patrolling its banks. At its northern edge, it spills into the culverted Wandle.

Following a public bridleway along the edge of an industrial estate, the river is soon found again, now both wide and fast flowing as it emerges. As the pathway joins residential roads, the Wandle flows beside and even through the gardens.

The walker has now reached Beddington, and must make a few twists and turns through the streets to keep up with the river as it runs around them. Soon though, it is an easy straight path westwards all the way to Beddington Park, passing by the large St Mary’s Church and the Tudor house of Carew Manor, now a school.

Beddington Park was once the deer park of Carew Manor, but is now part of a stretch of largely undeveloped land that ends at Mitcham, two miles to the north. Here, the Wandle is easy to follow as it continues in a westerly direction, gradually widening as it reaches a mill pond at the edge of the park. The river rushes through channels and under small stone bridges here, then under the road, where it must temporarily be lost from sight again…

[insidecroydon]

Two more Croydon music and dance festivals forced to cancel

Croydon’s calendar year as London’s Borough of Culture has not quite finished, but its dubious legacy appears to be sealed in failure after not one but two established festivals announced that they won’t take place in 2024. Money troubles: Croydon Pride and the Croydon Mela have both cancelled in 2024 Croydon Pride posted an announcement this morning stating “with regret” that it has cancelled…

[djfrankk]

Jahresrückblick 2020

10 mal Dancefloor. 30 + 3 Alben. 30 mal "Radio". 1 mal alles andere (31.12.2020)

BEST TRACKS (DANCEFLOOR)

1. park hye jin – like this

2. squarepusher – oberlove 3. four tet – baby 4. mark pritchard – one way mirror 5. the streets – i wish you loved you as much aus you love him 6. dj plead – going for it 7. t.raumschmiere – bass ballert vom balkon 8. bonobo & totally enormous extinct dinosaurus – heartbreak 9. tristan arp suggested – forms 10. massimiliano pagliara – accidentally we rushed

BEST ALBUMS 2020

1. king krule – man alive!

2. mr scruff – dj kicks 3. idles – ultra mono 4. tricky – fall to pieces 5. kelly lee owens – inner song 6. romare – home 7. metz – atlas vending 8. protomatyr – ultimate succes today 9. kruder & dorfmeister – 1995 10. deftones – black stallion

11. the streets – none of us are getting out of this life alive 12. john frusciante – maya 13. the bug feat. dis fig – in blue 14. squarepusher – be up a hello 15. fontaines d.c. – a  hero's death 16. sufjan stevens – the ascension 17. bug – nunc finis 18. dj earl – bass + funk & soul 19. luke's anger – micro dose 20. deftones – ohms

21.muzz – muzz 22. jarv is... - bejond the pale 23. machinedrum – a view of u 24. die sterne – die sterne 25. various – planetmu25 26. mr. bungle – the raging wrath of the easter bunny demo 27. caribou – suddenly 28. red robin – nice drama 29. bulbul – kodak dreams 30. darkstar – civic jams

BONUS: COMPILATIONS

burial – tunes 2011-2019 gewalt – 2016 – 2018 sleaford mods – all that glue

BEST SONGS (INDIE, POP & RADIO)

(ohne reihenfolge)

the 1975 – if youre too shy (let me know) alfie templeman – happiness in liquid form beabadoobee – care bug – qanon bulbul – Motta cardi b feat. megan thee stallion – wap caribou – never come back deadmau5 & the neptunes – pomegranate deftones – pink maggit (squarepusher remix) flut – zur zeit" gorillaz feat. peter hook & georgia – aries

haim – the steps hot chip feat. jarvis cocker - straight to the morning idles – grounds idles feat. jehnny beth – ne touche pas moi jar vis ... – house music all night long kruder & dorfmeister ft. robert johnson – johnson leyya - the paper metz – a boat to drown in muzz – bad feeling pippa feat. nora mazu – egal

romy – lifetime protomatyr – processed by the boys protomatyr – worm in heaven róisín murphy – murphy's law the strokes – bad eecisions wanda – jurassic park yves tumor – kerosene!

zella day –you sexy thing

AND ALSO …  

DJ/ELECTRONIC SET – helena hauff @ united we stream CONCERT – wandl @ united we stream FESTIVAL – united we stream CLUB – rhiz (last time out) TV – the comey rule RADIO – fm4 im sumpf, sommerserie "divided states of america" MOVIE – n/a MUSIC-VIDEO – fontaines d.c. - a hero's death MAGAZINE – the gap MUSIC-MAGAZINE – visions BOOK – stefanie sargnagel - dicht NOT BAD – mehr ruhe, post punk revival, inline skaten NOT GOOD – spex wohl endgültig, covid 2021 – weniger arbeiten, mehr blog einträge

[absme]

old arched bridge by Abs Via Flickr: A Small old arched bridge over the River Wandle at Morden in the summer is a serene oasis in the heart of suburban London.

[cdnzine]

#croydonpridefest #croydonpridefest2022 #croydonpride #pride #2022 #Croydon #cronx #ldn #London #fashion #lgbtqia #organiccottonclothing #organiccotton #teemill #uk #loveislove #southlondon (at Wandle Park, Croydon) https://www.instagram.com/p/CflB5eUIIgf/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[edwardfoley]

Lucky to have Morden Hall Park so close and made an excellent afternoon walk with Truffle who decided to take a swim of course! . . . . #London #londonparks #londonparksandgardens #nationaltrust #Merton #Morden #Wimbledon #photography #mpwra #mertonpark #covid_19 #walksinthepark #autumn #wimbledonvillage #sunset #wandletrail #wandle #riverwandle (at Morden Hall Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/CIjl2eUH4Gi/?igshid=1530rc60aqcfk

[the-greatest-tumbleweed]

You know what I love about living in London after having read Rivers of London? How much I care about random locations now. Like I'm on a train that terminates at Teddington at the moment and nobody cares about it but I'm sitting here internally screaming because I'm on a train to the border of Mama Thames' land. I walked through Wandle Park and I was like HELLO WANDLE. I was in Russel Square with a friend the other day and I saw what would be (or is) the Folly and got very excited about the sausages in the café in the corner of the park. I literally went to the Sainsburys around the corner from the UCLH back entrance that Peter mentions running past one time in the books and I got so excited. Life if good.