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Wimbledon
from Free Audio London Walks on April 27, 2008
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A circular walk from Wimbledon Underground and Mainline Station, Zone 3. The best way of reaching the start is by taking the District Line to Wimbledon from Central London, or by changing to the District Line Wimbledon Branch at Earl's Court. The walk is 3.8 miles long. This is a charming, picturesque, historical and interesting walk on high ground through Wimbledon Village and around the Common. There is also a chance to visit the Wimbledon All-England Club, home of the most famous lawn tennis tournament in the world. We first climb Wimbledon Hill from the railway station, and pause at St Mary's Church. This is the fourth place of worship on this site extending back more than 1,000 years. The present church was opened in 1843. It was designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott. In the chancel are wonderful mediaeval painted beams and a memorial to Sir Joseph Bazalgette, the engineer of London's sewerage system. His mausoleum is in the church yard. We then pass through Wimbledon Village and then along the south side of the Common with its large Georgian houses. After taking some refreshment at one of the many charming pubs around the Common and walking into the Crooked Billet, we walk up the west side where the houses are even bigger and grander. The largest is Cannizaro House (pictured) which is now a hotel. The grounds are owned by the London Borough of Merton and can be visited. Here you will find over 400 species of trees and shrubs. The collection of rhododendrons and azaleas is said to be one of the finest anywhere in England. From a little enclave of houses built on the Common and a preparatory school associated with William Wilberforce who owned a house nearby before starting his campaign to abolish slavery, there is the chance to take a diversion to look at an iron age hill fort or the Wimbledon Windmill Museum. There are also many other rides and walks throughout the Common. Finally the walk returns to the starting point across the Common and down several tiny alley ways, crossing the line of a prehistoric path and back to the new town centre. Files for your GPS: GPX
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Anjelika, the Prude
from Naive London Girl and Wanda on April 25, 2008
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- Can you be too picky? - Cancellations - Dating problems - Online dating - Talk is Cheap BLOG http://www.NaiveLondonGirl.com PODCAST http://naivelondongirl.podshow.com
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Anjelika, the Prude
from Naive London Girl and Wanda on April 25, 2008
81 views
- Can you be too picky? - Cancellations - Dating problems - Online dating - Talk is Cheap BLOG http://www.NaiveLondonGirl.com PODCAST http://naivelondongirl.podshow.com
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Country Colours & Remix
from Twittervlog @ twitter.com/ruperthowe on April 20, 2008
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Shot, edited and sent with Nokia N93. This was our last weekend in the English countryside before we emigrate. I wanted to capture and cut together some quiet little moments to take with me on my phone as a reminder. But after it was done, I thought it could do with a bit of tightening to improve it. Maybe cut a few seconds here and there. So I opened up my phone and started fiddling. You know when you re doodling or sketching, and you make something you re vaguely pleased with, but then you just have to add one more line and then another and then another ? Oh - and my last week in England is also the fourth annual Videoblogging Week. So I ll be churning out my egocentric mobile rubbish every day this week! Hurray! To join in, just make a video every day this week and tag each video videobloggingweek2008 and post a link at: http://videobloggingweek2008.blogspot.com/ Original MP4 file
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Amazing Rainbows! London Says Goodbye As We Emigrate
from Twittervlog @ twitter.com/ruperthowe on April 13, 2008
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Click Image Above To Play Or click here to play/download higher quality Quicktime (MP4) file I hope this rainbow brightens people s days all over the world. Please share this with any of your family or friends who d appreciate a little magic in their day And I m making films for the Nokia Mobile Filmmaking Awards at the moment, so if you like this film, I d love it if you could rate it and/or comment on the Pangea Day channel to help me out, and I ll return the favour on your videos/blog/podcast. Of the 200 or so films that I ve made with my phone in the last year, I think this is the one I like the most. We went on our favorite London walk for the last time yesterday with our friend Lucy - along the River Thames at Hammersmith. In two and a half weeks, we re moving to Canada. So I started filming a plane in the clouds with my phone, thinking about making a video about us leaving, and suddenly something magical happened and kept on happening! Instead of fading, they got brighter, and more intense! In mythology, religion, art, literature, music and film, the Rainbow is a powerful symbol - a sign of hope and life and new beginnings. I grew up in Christian boarding schools, so usually the first thing I think of when I see a rainbow is the rainbow that God sends Noah after the great flood in Genesis: And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth. Yeah. It s either that or The Wizard Of Oz. See you on the other side
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Mrs Patel
from Twittervlog @ twitter.com/ruperthowe on April 08, 2008
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Shot and edited on my Nokia N93 phone - excuse the lip sync - combination of the phone editor and Ovi s flash video conversion. The next person to inspire me : Mrs Patel from our local Post Office, about to be closed down by incompetence and greed in government and the privatised Post Office. This is today s entry for the Pangea Day Nokia Mobile Filmmaking Awards. The brief is to make 2 minute films about: - The next thing that makes you smile. - An act of kindness. - The next person to inspire you. - The best part of today. They don t stipulate in the rules that it has to even be shot on a phone, never mind a Nokia, but I m doing what I always do and shooting AND editing on my N93. Hopefully that ll give me extra brownie points with the judges! (if I get that far) Please go here to the Pangea Day channel on Ovi and give me views and comments and favorites to help me out. You need to sign up for an Ovi account to comment, but if you have a spare two minutes, *please* do (also, you should upload your own)! It s only the most popular films that will get a chance to go in front of the judges. I should say that aside from the main competition at Ovi, the remarkable Mr David Howell has been appointed by Nokia to run his own Pangea Day competition at http://davidhowellstudios.com - post a link to your film in his comment section by May 2nd. ANYWAY, enough selling as for today s film The Government are currently engaged in a disgraceful act of cultural vandalism. I believe that in 10-20 years - and beyond - they will be remembered for two things: The Iraq War, and the loss of the Post Offices. For the sake of a mere £200m per year, they are closing the last remaining centre of community in thousands of towns, villages and urban neighbourhoods. This is a brief interview with Mrs Patel, who has run our Post Office for 35 years. Two posts offices within half a mile of here are closing. Seven in our Borough. (and of course thousands throughout the country.) We have a higher density of older and disabled people in this ward than anywhere else in the borough - people who will lose vital services. I m glad that I m not going to be in the country at the next election. I d be in a real dilemma at the ballot box. I couldn t bring myself to vote Tory, but nor could I bring myself to reward the current bastards for everything they re doing. Every day, more reasons to emigrate. The Post Office issue is a classic case of everything that s wrong with a) blind Privatisation and b) our party-based representative democracy. The local MP, Andy Slaughter, who lives opposite me, was fiercely against the closure of the Post Offices. But he couldn t express that view in Parliament, where he represents us, or he d lose his job. He was forced to vote for something he knew to be wrong, because his weak, venal party leadership had decreed it as policy. Anyway, you probably came here to watch me making my usual arse of myself, not listen to my political opinions, so I ll stfu and let you meet the lovely, inspiring, discarded Mrs Patel. Original File: MPEG4 File
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Alleyways and courtyards of the mediaeval city
from Free Audio London Walks on April 04, 2008
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History lovers and those who are fond of spooky alleyways and secret spaces in the mediaeval City of London will love this walk. It covers the same territory as the City walk west of St Paul's a couple of years ago, but there are only two places we visit again so this is genuinely a new delight. Mind you, it will be essential for you to have your wits about you when you do this walk - we dive in and out of tiny entrances almost invisible to tourists, and walk through part of the City you would never find without a guide. During the walk, we see a memorial to ordinary folk who gave their lives to save others and who would be forgotten except for the good offices of the symbolist painter G F Watts. We walk underneath the Old Bailey and visit St Sepulchre where there is a stained glass window dedicated to musicians and especially the father of the Proms Sir Henry Wood. His ashes are interred in the floor. In the same church is the bell tolled the night before executions in Newgate Prison and a poem exhorting the condemned souls to repent. After walking through run down and abandoned parts of the old Smithfield Market ripe for redevelopment, we walk into a private road of elegant houses that is technically in Cambridgeshire. Half way up the road is St Ethelreda's Roman Catholic Church and through a hidden gap the most out-of-the-way pub in the whole of London. This is the spookiest part of the entire walk and full of atmosphere. We then pass through the old Barnard's Inn, once part of the Court of Chancery but now the home of Gresham College where free lectures are given to all comers. We revisit Gough Square where Dr Johnson's cat Hodge is set in bronze on a copy of the famous Dictionary with an opened oyster. Finally we return to St Paul's and Paternoster Square after standing right under the site of the spire which once was the centre of the Blackfriars monastery church and we see the preserved crypt of Whitefriars behind glass in the basement of the Freshfields law office building. Files for your GPS: GPX
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Online Dating, Part 2
from Naive London Girl and Wanda on March 30, 2008
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Wanda and Anjelika discuss: - Gray hair - Age difference - Long distance dating - Online dating - Guessing games BLOG: http://www.NaiveLondonGirl.com PODCAST: http://naivelondongirl.podshow.com
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Online Dating, Part 2
from Naive London Girl and Wanda on March 30, 2008
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Wanda and Anjelika discuss: - Gray hair - Age difference - Long distance dating - Online dating - Guessing games BLOG: http://www.NaiveLondonGirl.com PODCAST: http://naivelondongirl.podshow.com
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Playing in the Strand
from Free Audio London Walks on March 11, 2008
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This is more of stroll through part of London's extensive Theatreland. It lasts just over 80 minutes and starts in Trafalgar Square (Charing Cross Underground - Zone 1 - Bakerloo and Northern Lines) Take the exit from the subway marked 'Trafalgar Square' and walk to the base of the Nelson Column facing towards the Tower of Big Ben. After an extensive description of Trafalgar Square and the Nelson Column, we walk aroud the square and look at the grand buildings, including Admiralty Arch, Canada House, National Gallery, St Martin-in-the-Fields and South Africa House. The walk then continues down to the River Thames and the Playhouse Theatre. From here, depending on the visibility and the weather, there is a choice of crossing and re-crossing the river by way of the Golden Jubilee bridges, from which there are unrivalled views of the London skyline in both directions, or walking under the Arches to Embankment Underground and thence back to Charing Cross station forecourt - the centre of London as measured from mileposts and mapping. Most of Little Adelphi is covered on my Covent Garden walk, but we do walk along John Adam Street and look at the lovely buildings in the streets, including the home of Samuel Pepys near the old Watergate, and the Royal Society of Arts. Returning to The Strand, we admire the glass fronted Coutts Bank with its revolving full-size tree and haunted banking hall. From this point on, it's all about the theatre. We pass the Adelphi with its fantastic Art Deco facade. Nearby is the Vaudeville. By Carting Lane we visit the old Coal Hole Tavern, once the haunt of Thames barge coal heavers. Then we enter Savoy Court with its world famous luxury hotel (now being refurbished) and the Savoy Theatre, originally showcase of the Gilbert & Sullivan operettas. After that, we pass the Strand Palace Hotel, the Lyceum Theatre, Drury Lane, the Aldwych Theatre (pictured above) and Bush House, home of the BBC World Service. The walk ends with a choice. You can either walk up Kingsway to Holborn Underground (Central Line Zone 1) or end at Covent Garden Piazza just off to the left up Drury Lane. The Covent Garden Underground station is on the Piccadilly Line, and is near all the attractions of Covent Garden, including the Royal Opera House and the newly refurbished London Transport Museum.
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Anal Sex for Lunch
from Naive London Girl and Wanda on March 02, 2008
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with special Guest, Suzanne Portnoy Anjelika and Suzanne chat about - Anal Sex for lunch - Anal Toys - Strap-ons - Rejecting the B.F.E. on Valentine's day. - Suzanne's B.F.E. - The Not-so Invisible Woman Suzanne Portnoy http://www.SuzannePortnory.com Naive London Girl Blog http://www.NaiveLondonGirl.com Naive London Girl Podcast http://naivelondongirl.podshow.com
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Anal Sex for Lunch
from Naive London Girl and Wanda on March 02, 2008
717 views
with special Guest, Suzanne Portnoy Anjelika and Suzanne chat about - Anal Sex for lunch - Anal Toys - Strap-ons - Rejecting the B.F.E. on Valentine's day. - Suzanne's B.F.E. - The Not-so Invisible Woman Suzanne Portnoy http://www.SuzannePortnory.com Naive London Girl Blog http://www.NaiveLondonGirl.com Naive London Girl Podcast http://naivelondongirl.podshow.com
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Online Dating
from Naive London Girl and Wanda on February 24, 2008
288 views
Anjelika and Wanda Discuss - Online Dating - Anjelika's Wedding Date - Flirting - Anjelika's three dates - Why Men Marry Some Women and Not Others Why Men Marry Some Women and Not Others http://www.amazon.com/Why-Marry-Some-Women-Others/dp/0446531138 Blog http://www.naivelondongirl.com Podcast: http://naivelondongirl.podshow.com
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Online Dating
from Naive London Girl and Wanda on February 24, 2008
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Anjelika and Wanda Discuss - Online Dating - Anjelika's Wedding Date - Flirting - Anjelika's three dates - Why Men Marry Some Women and Not Others Why Men Marry Some Women and Not Others http://www.amazon.com/Why-Marry-Some-Women-Others/dp/0446531138 Blog http://www.naivelondongirl.com Podcast: http://naivelondongirl.podshow.com
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Islington
from Free Audio London Walks on February 11, 2008
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This is a most enjoyable walk through Islington, starting at Angel Underground (Zone 1 - Northern Line, Bank Branch) and ending at Highbury & Islington (Zone 2 - Victoria Line and Overground). The first part of the walk passes through the antiques market area along Camden Passage. The middle section follows the line of the New River - neither new nor a river. This man-made watercourse took fresh water from Hertfordshire to New River Head. Little of the river is visible nowadays, but the route is clearly visible and there is a charming garden were we walk alongside the water by formal gardens near Canonbury Grove. The last part of the walk passes Canonbury Tower and House. The Tower was built in the early years of the 16th century as a manor house on the site of an Augustinian Priory owned by the canons of St Bartholomew's in Clerkenwell (which we pass on the Well, Well, Well... walk). The walk should take about an hour, and includes references to such people as Charles Lamb, Sir John Spencer, Evelyn Waugh and George Orwell. Upper Street is also the site of a restaurant in which Tony Blair and Gordon Brown are said to have discussed the timing of the transfer of the leadership of the Labour Party, and hence the office of Prime Minister. Most of the route is quiet and free of heavy traffic. The houses are predominately 18th century terraced properties, and the area is well known not only as a smart and expensive place to live, but where the left wing intelligentsia of the capital prefer to hang out. It also reminds me of the British Monopoly board - the Angel Islington is a modestly priced light blue property on which it is much more affordable to build hotels than on places further from 'Go.' I recommend this short walk as a very interesting way to spend an hour - more of a stroll really, past charming houses and lovely residential locales.
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Are You Kidding?
from Naive London Girl and Wanda on February 02, 2008
429 views
Anjelika, Angelica and Wanda Discuss - Pregnancy - Having Kids - Raising Kids - Finding Mr. Right - RU486 - Ideal scenarios - Yuppie Flu - Is it selfish wanting a kid? I want a kid, but I don't want it that much.
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