No Madam, your Monkey's quite right!
This is not a hike podcast, more of an after thought or thoughts. When I was walking the night before, I didn’t manage to take my recorder out with me.
Recorded on my Tascam DR-40x, Edited on my Reaper Audio on my Raspberry Pi 5 8gb.
Originally publish on Spotify for Creators.
I don’t take any pleasure from being discouraging. I witnessed the Enfield parade of lights this evening as part of the 25 days of counting down to Christmas. It was a disappointment. I haven’t seen it for a few years, I think the last one was before COVID. I hadn’t realised it had deteriorated so much. It was short for one, the whole thing felt clinical, rather than community focused and led. The whole parade past my work in 20mins. 5 Children waved, 3 I knew from Lucas’ school. The variety of community groups were minimal and to be honest I felt embarrassed by the whole thing.
After watching, I made my way to Enfield town to watch the Mayor turn on lights. ( I had to shout and wave to get them to respond, something not befitting of a parade). I didn’t stay, I went home.
We were going to have a float this year, something I have wanted to do since we first it back in 2013, I am really glad we didn’t.
I completely forgot to mention, this was filmed on a Raspberry Pi 4 8GB and the audio was recorded on the same Pi using a rode usbnt.
On the south western section of Alexandra Palace, lies the disused railway line that has been turned into the, you guess it, Parkland walk. A nature reserve in Haringay. It is split into two sections north and south, divided by Highgate woods. On the south side there a about 3 disused platforms that you can walk along and signage to explain where the old stations used to be. The walk takes about an hour (ish) and to pass through the north and south sections, you have to travel through a bat cave. I didn’t not because I was scared but I wanted to visit a shop and get a drink. Also the last time I did the walk, the caves were closed and I wasn’t aware you could walk through.
I made a youtube video the first time I visited a few years ago but my voice really annoys me in it. You’ll have to make do with the podcast for now.
It was something to do on a Saturday afternoon at a moments notice.
