 |
LONDON FRIDAY NIGHT SKATE TM |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
W E E K O N W H E E L S |
|||||
 |
|||||
|
This is the "Week on Wheels" free weekly London skating email newsletter. Sign up to receive it in your email inbox each week.
From: Week on Wheels <wow /at/ lfns.co.uk>
Subject: [wow] Week on Wheels: Skate Expectations Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:42:36 +0000 == THIS WEEK == Christmas is now well and truly over, but this FRIDAY we're off on a Charles Dickens themed tour of London. Our first point of interest is across Westminster Bridge at the site of Astley's Royal Equestrian Amphitheatre, which featured in many of Dickens' stories. Then we'll be doing the Lambeth Walk, before winding our way around the Obelisk where David Copperfield had his money stolen by a young man with a donkey-cart. A brief tour of jailhouses takes us past The King's Bench Prison (featured in David Copperfield and Nicholas Nickleby) and Marshalsea Debtor's Prison, where Dickens' father resided whilst 12-year-old Charlie had lodgings in a rented attic in nearby Lant Street (Pickwick Papers). After a short stop at London Bridge, we head up to Guy's Hospital (Pickwick Papers) before heading into the city past the Monument (Barnaby Rudge, David Copperfield) and alongside St Paul's. Next it's downhill to Temple (A Tale of Two Cities) and Lincoln's Inn Fields (Bleak House, David Copperfield). We then head north around Gray's Inn - one of the four Inns of Court, featuring in many of his stories and where Dickens was once a solicitor's clerk. Finally, we pass Dickens' old haunts in Doughty Street and Tavistock Square, before leaving the old scribe behind to run down Marylebone, round Grosvenor Square, Bond Street and Green Park. http://www.lfns.co.uk/route.php/20080125 The SUNDAY STROLL is titled "Rainbow Road". While you may have seen our very own Tom in a yellow vest and speed skates marshaling the LFNS and Sunday Stroll, this is his first outing in the role of lead marshal. Don't miss out on this golden opportunity to experience the red hot kaleidoscope that is London. Prey for blue skies because we've got the green light to skate along a colourful route that will be anything but grey. More details of the route will be posted on our web site in a day or two. == LAST WEEK == Thanks to those of you who turned out for the LONDON FRIDAY NIGHT (SUPERHERO) SKATE. Actually, there were so few skaters that it sometimes seemed more like a route check (where the marshals skate the 'route' on their own to 'check' it before the skate). In any event, all those that turned up for the LFNS seemed to really enjoy themselves. The (very) few that made it to the end are, indeed, superheroes. And remember, people, that wasn't rain - it was liquid coolant for skaters. SUNDAY afternoon proved that just eighty skaters (and a few marshals) can summon enough psychic energy to hold back the weather. Despite threatening clouds and occasional spits of something from the sky, the appalling weather held off long enough for us to run the Stroll in a leisurely easterly direction, pausing at Chancery Lane just long enough to jeer at the weather gods. Our return trip took us through Trafalgar Square and up The Mall to finish with the traditional sprint up Constitution Hill. An impressive number of skaters raced the marshals for Hyde Park Corner and no one was left behind for Her Majesty's corgis to savage. http://www.lfns.co.uk/route.php/20080120/1 == MOVING ON == After many (two) years of loyal service, the garage that houses our beloved Firebrox music bike is retiring in the autumn. While we wish her all the best for her future and pass no judgment on bingo as a pastime, the news leaves our bike looking for replacement storage, preferably as close to Hyde Park Corner as possible. And cheap (or free): the LFNS and Sunday Stroll are free events organised entirely by volunteers, so we don't have much cash to spend. 24 hour access on weekends is a requirement, and electricity to charge Brox's batteries is a bonus. If you know of a garage with a bike-size (about 4x8ft, according to our dim recollection) space available, write to us through the feedback form. == SMILE PLEASE == If you have taken photographs of the Sunday Stroll or London Friday Night Skate and would like your photographs to be added to our web site, all you have to do is upload them to Flickr and tag them. You will need an account with Flickr but these are free of charge and easy to setup. * Upload your photos to Flickr and tag them 'yyyymmdd' according to the date of the skate. For example, '20080427' is the 27th of April 2008. * The first time you send us some photos you will need to join the LFNS group on Flickr. Membership requests have to be approved by us, so this is easier if you've already taken some pictures of the skates that we can look at. * Use the "post to group" button on your Flickr page and post them to the LFNS group. This will send them to our site, where they will be added automatically. We should soon be able to display the photographer's name along with each picture too... If you're already sending pics - thanks! Don't forget, you own the copyright to your photos even if they are on our site. http://www.flickr.com/groups/335076@N20/ == FREE DVDS! == Fancy hours and hours of mad skating, and all for free? This is proper skate porn with both inline and quads, and even some UK skaters. Just click on the link below, then click on the BitTorrent logos. Please remember, if for some reason you cannot download or view the videos, we can't help you. Enjoy! http://www.rollerfr.net/fr/dvd.html == SKATES FOR AFRICA == Burkina Faso is a small country in Western Africa, and we've had a letter from the Burkina Faso Skate Association asking us to send our old wheels and bearings - they might be too worn for you but they've probably got enough life in them to be useful to the BFSA. While you might not want to go to the expense of sending your old skate stuff to BFSA in a dedicated parcel, there's a small chance you know someone that is sending a parcel to Burkina Faso for some other reason. If so, BFSA suggests popping your old skate bits in that parcel, then drop BFSA a line and they'll do the rest. If anyone can help, please contact Association Burkina Glisse, 01 BP: 97 Ouagadougou 01, Burkina Faso. If you can read French, the website is here... http://www.burkinaglisse.wb.st == DISCLAIMER == And the word on the streets this week is "KEEP CLEAR" http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ll=51.512488,-0.130803&t=h&z=21 Please don't reply to this mail: it will bounce. Use the feedback form on our site instead. To unsubscribe, use the link in the mail footer - right at the bottom after the copyright notice. http://www.lfns.co.uk/feedback.php#contactus Small print: Material in this email is protected by copyright; it may be reproduced unchanged in full provided that credit is given. All trademarks are acknowledged. The LFNS is not responsible for the content of external web sites. We didn't start the fire, it was always burning since the world's been turning. -- Sent from the London Friday Night Skate - http://www.lfns.co.uk/ Check out any time - see http://www.lfns.co.uk/unsubscribe.php?list=wow |
 |
|
|||