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Ah the Greenwich to Mill Hill ride
With a peep through the telescope
It was awesome

Sedonded

I think once in a while is fine, but fast-moving is fun too. I think I’ve found this one. Not as far as the time @7Üp and I went to Aveley - just a little 40+ mile after work jaunt.

Oh, and since tbc doesn't say it explicitly, for re-tag avoidance search purposes the previous tag was of Piccadilly Circus.

I really think there is a strong argument for keeping the game more central, so that more people can take part. An 'easy' one isn't easy to get for most people if it's a 2 hour round trip.

I agree, although 'central' at the moment means tagging something in a largely deserted area. It's different when people are actually at work and can nip out over lunch. At the moment, there's this strange phenomenon that you ride in from the suburbs and Zone 2 is busier than Zone 1.

I disagree - I've learned a lot about parts of London I've never even heard of through this game, and the tags can get carried a long way quite quickly if people are commuting in and out.

I think it mainly depends on how easy it is, which is often based on the clue. I think the further out something is, the easier the clue should be; not that it should be prohibitively obscure in a very central tag, either.

If it was central I'm sure a lot of people would be less rather than more likely to get involved.

Traditionally, no, central tags definitely go more quickly, but as I said above, we're not in a traditional situation.

What would your definition of "central" be, anyway? Inside the Circulars would be quite central for the forumengers of Plumstead, Chingford or Ruislip.

Well, thank goodness no-one in their right mind could possibly think of tagging something in Ruislip. Where the hell is that, anyway?

Ouch, I even refreshed it before posting?!

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Internet weather.

Ooh I think that I actually know where that is! The football pitch needs a mow & the bridge is something of a bumpy ride?

Doesn't sound like you're barking up the wrong tree.

What's going On at number 34?

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There is the option on StreetView of having your house/property blurred out. This was taken up enthusiastically in Germany, so much so that it was probably a contributing factor in making Google unenthusiastic of doing any more StreetViewing there after they'd only done parts of a few major cities. (There's undoubtedly also something in German data protection laws that caused it.) I didn't realise people could do it here, too (perhaps because of EU law? not much longer, I imagine) until I started to notice it more and more often recently.

Well, thank goodness no-one in their right mind could possibly think of tagging something in Ruislip. Where the hell is that, anyway?

Any (so called) 'Taggers' approaching The Glory that is Ruislip would be followed in the surveillance cameras system, and dealt with according to the PSPO, (Public Spaces Protection Order).
'Where' suggests a stubborn reliance upon geography.
Those that reside in 'The Goodliest Place in Middlesex' - E.M. Bowlt 1989,
regard 'Ruislip' as more a state of mind. The best way to understand is to visit,
so, post-further loosening of the Lockdown restrictions, I really should get round to organising a Forum Ride to include the Ruislip Woods NNR.

really shoud get round to organising a Forum Ride to include the Ruislip Woods NNR.

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I really shoud get round to organising a Forum Ride to include the Ruislip Woods NNR

Indeed, having had a preview of this it's fascinating. Mespilus knows his woodcraft

Park Wood, is now 'with added leaky dams'.

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Interesting that from a bird's eye view Google hasn't blurred it.

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Yes, I was wondering about that. There's probably different legislation that applies to aerial imagery.

For what it’s worth, one of my favourite rides was from home in SE23 across to Hayes Middx to get the canal junction bridge, only to get home and see that @skydancer had beaten me to it. I wish I still had that frameset.

I was really excited that the new tag was central and near my work which I'm rarely in these days, and rode back homewards wondering if I was going to be beaten to it and thinking about the play on words I could put in the clue.

It was sad to see the first responses were making me feel like I shouldn't have bothered - it's the first time I've taken part in years.

If people would rather, I'll tag something more prosaic and central tomorrow.

I think it's fine.

Good to move it about a bit.

I don't agree that the tag should stay central - I can't get to Central London due to time / childcare / home issues. It's only when tags come out East that I get a chance to get involved. If it stayed in one area I wouldn't get a chance to get involved. I guess I might be unique, but I've never been unique before and I'd be surprised if I was now.

If anything bogs the game down it's gnomic / excessively clever / infrequent clues.

Well told story of your ride! Wry smile about the picadores?

Now you feel my pain....

It's a 100% legit tag, let it stand (you're the only one who could move it) and don't worry about it.