I have made an attempt however basic to de-google my phone or at leats one of them. So I know I haven’t managed to completely do it but I have managed to remove most of the services and the playstore and download instead, the apk’s for most of the app I use. It has given a new lease of life to my Oneplus 5t despite me still loving my Motorola G8. I can do with out most of the apps but whatsapp is one that is cross platform and everyone I know uses. Unless I can find a way to have it one the phone used in the same way that doesn’t share data. I shall investigate.
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Go to hike
So this is boring I know, I have a go to hike when I lack the imagination to think up somewhere new .
I did have a plan to visit the Thames barrier and the Woolwich ferry but then I had to work the next day in that area, so I thought I wait until then…
It didn’t happen, so in the meantime I walked my ‘go to hike/ default hike’ to Hertford. This time to be really exciting Whoop Whoop, I went to Hertford east station for the first time and not Hertford north. It’s a nice station, who knew? The walk was excellent however or I wouldn’t have done it. I know I am making out it was dull and boring but it was anything but. I use this time to listen horror podcasts and did for the full five hours it took me to walk the sixteen miles. I was listening to the simply scary podcast network. The canal is beautiful all year round but especially autumn and Halloween, it gets dark at just the right time of day. One thing I did noticed about many of the narrow boats was there were a large number of sinks full of dirty dishes. I know, I shouldn’t be looking but two things, 1: I love narrow boats and I’m really interested in their layouts and 2: I’m nosey. I am trying to figure out where to go this Saturday, once I figure out how to resolve the mess that is my website publishing, i.e. one site for podcasts and the other for blog posts. Yea, I need to sort out Halloween first.
Walking the Victoria Line
All the stations from Brixton the Walthamstow.
So I have the book by Mark Mason, so well before that it was something I wanted to do. So I chose the Victoria line as a part from the city and Waterloo (not a proper line), it has the fewest stations. I never actually thought I would do it. So on the Saturday morning, I got up and with no prep or plan. I jumped on a train to Finsbury park and then the Victoria line (underground) to Brixton. So give the podcast a listen, it is just me arriving at stations and saying “Well I have arrived at…” “It’s starting to rain” etc. But worth listening to me complain about being tired, hungry and bored.
Thanks for reading and HikenPod series 4 will be back after Halloween 2020.