Lost::MikeGTN²

There is something oddly transformative about setting up a new laptop. The clean slate, the fresh install without the cruft of add-ins and mods which accrete over time, the determinedly first-day-of-term approach to keeping your textbooks clean and graffiti-free.

It's not clear to me why I didn't finish this fairly advanced piece, which describes a wet but fulfilling walk along the canal from the far western edge of London into the city. Around this time I know I'd sold my laptop, and my opportunities to…

This fragment dates back to the Spring of 2019 - which seems like a lifetime ago. I had completed the London Ordinal walks, heading into the city along each of the ordinal routes, via a walk along the A5. As it was a shorter walk in some respects, I'd started a little further out of London.