I was a bit more surprised when I saw a fox come down from the
footbridge and wander across platform 5/6 at London Bridge, given that
the whole station is on a viaduct.

Well, until then I haven't see any fox in London at all. At least now
I understand that those fox-like "dogs" I see sometimes are actually
foxes! (which was quite unbelievable for a foreigner)

On 12 Mar 2007 02:16:19 -0700, "alex_t"
wrote:


I was a bit more surprised when I saw a fox come down from the
footbridge and wander across platform 5/6 at London Bridge, given that
the whole station is on a viaduct.

Well, until then I haven't see any fox in London at all. At least now
I understand that those fox-like "dogs" I see sometimes are actually
foxes! (which was quite unbelievable for a foreigner)

I have seen 4 in my garden - mum, dad and 2 juniors. I often hear the
high pitched screams of foxes during the night.

I have also almost been "foxbushed" on the way to the station in the
dark when 4 or 5 foxes came running up the road behind me to try to
reach their lair. They typically don't like human contact and I stopped
and we ended up in a stand off as I was inadvertently right on their
route into their "home" via a car park behind a church. They ran round
me and disappeared. Not really what you expect in Walthamstow!

--
Paul C


Admits to working for London Underground!

Not really what you expect in Walthamstow!

Must have been fun :-)
Here (in the lost land between Bow and Stratford) there's a lot of
empty land, and foxes seem to like it.

On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, alex_t wrote:

Not really what you expect in Walthamstow!

Must have been fun :-) Here (in the lost land between Bow and Stratford)
there's a lot of empty land, and foxes seem to like it.

The lost land! The Bow back rivers area is one of my favourite places in
London; i don't know that i'd call it 'lost'. But then, i don't have to
live there!

tom

--
Fitter, Happier, More Productive.

The lost land! The Bow back rivers area is one of my favourite places in
London; i don't know that i'd call it 'lost'. But then, i don't have to
live there!

Yes, they are nice - but as most things in the area they are very
neglected: dirty, smelly, etc. Well, the smell is not from rivers
actually, it comes from the sewer nearby (especially when the wind is
from the sea), but it stinks so bad...

The only reason that I live here is that I got a chance to rent a flat
in a brand new block (near the City Mill Lock) quite cheaply, and it
is nice to live in, or better to say - it *was* nice in the beginning.
As a first tenant on my floor (and one of the first in the entire
building) I witnessed gradual decline from the initial shiny new
building to current pig farm (which is of course quite logical, given
that most people living here behave like pigs). Add local yobs, polish/
eastern-european drunkards, a couple of recent bourglaries (not in my
flat thank god - *knocks on wood*), multiple letter boxes broken into
(I redirected most of my mail to work) - and it is no surprise that
I'm going to start searching for a better place soon... :-/

On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, alex_t wrote:

The lost land! The Bow back rivers area is one of my favourite places
in London; i don't know that i'd call it 'lost'. But then, i don't have
to live there!

Yes, they are nice - but as most things in the area they are very
neglected: dirty, smelly, etc. Well, the smell is not from rivers
actually, it comes from the sewer nearby (especially when the wind is
from the sea), but it stinks so bad...

The only reason that I live here is that I got a chance to rent a flat
in a brand new block (near the City Mill Lock) quite cheaply, and it is
nice to live in, or better to say - it *was* nice in the beginning. As a
first tenant on my floor (and one of the first in the entire building) I
witnessed gradual decline from the initial shiny new building to current
pig farm (which is of course quite logical, given that most people
living here behave like pigs). Add local yobs, polish/ eastern-european
drunkards, a couple of recent bourglaries (not in my flat thank god -
*knocks on wood*), multiple letter boxes broken into (I redirected most
of my mail to work) - and it is no surprise that I'm going to start
searching for a better place soon... :-/

Yikes. Okay, that doesn't sound too fun.

tom

--
Axaxaxas Mlo

Tom Anderson wrote:


The lost land! The Bow back rivers area is one of my favourite places in
London; i don't know that i'd call it 'lost'. But then, i don't have to
live there!


Me too. But sadly very soon to be closed off, the wilderness "tidied up"
and the diggers to move in for the Olympics.
Get up there now to see the area while you can.

On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, John Hearns wrote:

Tom Anderson wrote:

The lost land! The Bow back rivers area is one of my favourite places
in London; i don't know that i'd call it 'lost'. But then, i don't have
to live there!

Me too. But sadly very soon to be closed off, the wilderness "tidied up"
and the diggers to move in for the Olympics. Get up there now to see the
area while you can.

To a point - nothing Olympic is happening south of the GEML (or north of
the East Cross Route), barring a couple of car parks, so quite a lot of
the area will survive. A lot of the beautiful-in-their-own-way places will
indeed go, though .

tom

--
We must perform a quirkafleeg

nothing Olympic is happening south of the GEML (or north of
the East Cross Route), barring a couple of car parks

So all those "exciting" deserted factories (one of them occupied by
some weird church, and I suspect that without authorization), dusty
empty office buildings, and ruined garages will become part of the
Olympic settings? Wow!