old oak common

 yesterday in the morning

horsemouth got the overground over to willesden junction. his main reason in going there was to witness the constructions of the HS2 facilities at old oak common. 

after a brief mooch round the station he headed off down old oak lane (with a diversion round stephenson street) and the acton railwaymen's houses and onto loverose way before continuing round old oak common lane into the dead end triangle of wells house road.

escaping that he carried on to the bus stop on brunel road where he chickened out and got a 7 (eventually returning through ladbroke grove). the labyrinth of streets had defeated him (he did not make it to the city on the hill with its skyscrapers and so forth). 

strangely as a walk this is not very impressive. it being a bit above a mile. 

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yesterday in the afternoon/evening. 

food at dave's (claudia was away) and a walk down to leytonstone (across the hollow ponds) to the pub (horsemouth got out at a pint and a half) and then back again with the daylight slowly fading (then horsemouth walked back up to highams park).  

on his way back he found italo svevo's a life in a bookbox, which is not, as he first thought, an autobiography, but a novel about a very fernando pessoa type character. 

on their way to the pub they saw the screaming lady from leytonstone tube (she was only making some noises not full blooded howling). 

you see this is getting on for about 5 miles yet because horsemouth knew where he was going(ish) it didn't feel that far. 

today

well a visit. probably an hour each way walk.