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Old Myddelton House Gardens, Enfield

Thanks, me too!

Nice one. Myddelton House is the former home of E A Bowles, horticulturalist known for crocuses. It's free entry (not free parking though) and has a little cafe, plant shop and sells homegrown veg.

It's a bit of an Enfield hidden gem with a lot of variety packed into a fairly compact site.

Just around the corner are Forty Hall with its walled garden and a nice bridleway to Hilly Fields Park and Capel Manor horticultural college which has a few former show gardens from various flower shows.

I also like your bike. Much lurid.

Know the new one but unlikely to get to it before tomorrow afternoon or evening at best

It's the only muddy bit of my canalside commute. Wish they'd tarmac it

It's honestly great. For. Relatively cheap alloy frame, it packs a lot of punch off road and works just fine with full mudguards on the road in the winter with a set of fat slicks. My last one was written off when I got doored and I didn't hesitate to replace like for like

After some careful deduction, I have worked out where this is. But it's too far for me to tag.

Also, I agree; what a mint bike that is.

New: clue to follow if needed/when I can think of one

I once saw Jeff Mills on his way to a set, but I think he was lost and was asking my mate Lee for navigation tips

Nice clue, but this is actually on the proper river and not on the you-know-what. :)

Ooh interesting/controversial! As someone who knows nothing about either subject, I did wonder about the spelling and landed on the "e" rather than "a" side of the fence

Well, 'e' is associated with one county, 'a' with the other.

That it's not the you-know-what there is not controversial at all, though. It is you-know-what-ed, but it the river.

Old: the river Leigh by Watermint Quay.

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New: anyone for .....?

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What's happened to the Colnago and the poo-brown Langster?

Would be up for it, but I’ve retired from this. There’s also 140 pages of catching up to do before I could move on.

^^Got the Trek for free. Almost unused. So far it's given me a bad back and a twisted knee. So much for 'women-specific' design.

High score for deliberately provocative river-naming there.

Lulz

Apparently, (wait) there’s a map...

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If people don't get the clue, just follow the local smack-addicted prostitutes in the morning, they like to gather around the side of that building. You don't get that on Henman Hill.

They used to shoot up in my friend's stairwell on the other side of the road

I was working off this, from the Canal Museum:

London Canal Museum adopts the convention of using "Lee" when referring to the navigation, and "Lea" when referring to the natural river. The waterway is a natural river that has been greatly improved by man over the centuries, and sections of it are entirely man-made canal. It is a bit of each, therefore, and we generally refer to it as a navigation

https://www.canalmuseum.org.uk/history/lee.htm

Obviously, that's a convention one can adopt, but it's fairly arbitrary, e.g. with respect to spelling. I was told by a local historian and land use campaigner who really knew her area that the 'Lee' spelling was the one traditionally used in Essex and the 'Lea' spelling in Middlesex. I've always trusted that and have never checked it. Again, obviously, it's hardly important enough not to be re-purposeable.

The 'navigation' bit I don't think makes much sense. The Thames is also canalised for a long stretch in Central London, but you don't refer to it as the 'Thames Navigation'. True, the Lea doesn't have its original course on the stretch in question (heavily engineered for the reservoirs), but neither does the Rhine for most of the Upper Rhine Valley, and again nobody calls it a different name for that. The Lea has one course before it splits just south of Lea Bridge, where they decided to leave it in much of its original course and additionally build the Lea Navigation that's straight as an arrow.

It's definitely the River Lea when it flows through Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire towards London.