for my reasoning for & against going, see my previous LJ post (http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?journal=memevector&itemid=4052).
some people did take BiCon booking forms you know :-)
I'm somewhat surprised you didn't check a map and go 'hang on, in what sense is that set of muddy football pitches "close" to Stratford?'
oh, I didn't walk from Stratford. Someone else told me that was how long it had taken. (and it seems to be a meme of the moment - one of my housemates reports a DJ on Radio One last night throwing in a pointy aside along the lines of "And wasn't the site really near Stratford station like they said" - ha!)
My plan was to go by Homerton, and I knew it was a mile or so from there. In the event, I did the journey to the site by bus, as the tube station at KX was so teeming with people & so hot, & the queues for tickets so long, that I thought "fuck's sake, what's the train gonna be like, can't face this". (Met/Circle/H&C part of the station was closed, I think due to the St P building work, so the other side must have been extra busy.) Bus journey took ages but was quite pleasant apart from thinking "bother, I'm later than I predicted, and Kevin's not got a mobile" and "I don't know the route of this bus, wonder if I should ask the driver my best stop". It was probably about a mile from the bus stop to the site as well.
I agree the leaflet was distinctly misleading though. It referred to Stratford as "20 minutes from central London", and said nothing about the walk. That's a spin they'll only be able to pull once - be interesting to see next year's publicity & next year's turnout (at whatever site, but esp if they're there again).
as for mud, that was a minor and localised feature, but they were lucky that it didn't rain or it could have been another big talking point :-)
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I dunno, I never said we should! :-)
for my reasoning for & against going, see my previous LJ post (http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?journal=memevector&itemid=4052).
some people did take BiCon booking forms you know :-)
I'm somewhat surprised you didn't check a map and go 'hang on, in what sense is that set of muddy football pitches "close" to Stratford?'
oh, I didn't walk from Stratford. Someone else told me that was how long it had taken. (and it seems to be a meme of the moment - one of my housemates reports a DJ on Radio One last night throwing in a pointy aside along the lines of "And wasn't the site really near Stratford station like they said" - ha!)
My plan was to go by Homerton, and I knew it was a mile or so from there. In the event, I did the journey to the site by bus, as the tube station at KX was so teeming with people & so hot, & the queues for tickets so long, that I thought "fuck's sake, what's the train gonna be like, can't face this". (Met/Circle/H&C part of the station was closed, I think due to the St P building work, so the other side must have been extra busy.) Bus journey took ages but was quite pleasant apart from thinking "bother, I'm later than I predicted, and Kevin's not got a mobile" and "I don't know the route of this bus, wonder if I should ask the driver my best stop". It was probably about a mile from the bus stop to the site as well.
I agree the leaflet was distinctly misleading though. It referred to Stratford as "20 minutes from central London", and said nothing about the walk. That's a spin they'll only be able to pull once - be interesting to see next year's publicity & next year's turnout (at whatever site, but esp if they're there again).
as for mud, that was a minor and localised feature, but they were lucky that it didn't rain or it could have been another big talking point :-)