9 Oct 09, 14.30PM
Walking Class Hero – Runnin’ on Empty
World turned upside down alert – the current America’s Cup holders is still land locked Switzerland, the world’s best rapper is white and the USA has a liberal black president…
Tags: Baseball, Detroit, Hitsville, Motor City, RenCen, River Rouge, walking
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21 Sep 09, 18.34PM
Walking Class Hero: Tales of the Riverbank
Welcome to Walking Class Hero a regular blog about walking and the walking environment. Whether you like walking on your own, with friends or in an organised group this blog will cover it. It’ll embrace walking in cities and towns [...]
Tags: Donovan, Eel Pie Island, Himalayan Balsam, Lightning Seeds, Lindsey Buckingham, Monty Python, Seething Wells, Steve Hackett, Steven Wells, Thames, Thames Path, The Jam, Trevor Baylis, Walking Class Hero
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11 Sep 09, 11.26AM
Phil Pickin: Seeing red
You’d be hard pressed to have missed the media reports on the plight of the red squirrel. The fact that it’s cute, small and photogenic certainly helps to attract public interest, but it’s their continued hounding from native habitats by [...]
Tags: Blogs, conservation, Formby, grey squirrel, highlands, Isle of Wight, phil pickin, red squirrel, Wildlife
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4 Sep 09, 10.34AM
Walking Class Hero: And the View’s So Nice
Welcome to Walking Class Hero a regular blog about walking and the walking environment. Whether you like walking on your own, with friends or in an organised group this blog will cover it. It’ll embrace walking in cities and towns [...]
Tags: Blur, Camden, cat, Dan Brown, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Liberty, Noel Gallagher, Parliament, Ramblers, Regents Canal, Sir Lawrence Chubb, Somers Town, walk britain - Great Views, Walking Class Hero
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27 Aug 09, 9.39AM
Nicholas Crane: Feet are the future
BBC Coast presenter Nicholas Crane is excited by Britain’s new low-carbon economy, where walking is prized more than ever before. But, he argues, there’s still plenty to do…
Tags: environmentalism, opinion, transport
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26 Aug 09, 14.21PM
In England’s Purple and Pleasant Land
Today I’m in Shoreham – a very pleasant and picturesque village in the River Darent valley not far from Sevenoaks in Kent. I’m told the name derives from ‘estate at the foot of a steep slope’…
Tags: Golf, Lavender, Lullingstone, River Darent, Roman Villa, Samuel Palmer, Saxon, Shoreham, The Ashes, Walking Class Hero, William Blake
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25 Aug 09, 10.45AM
Christopher Somerville’s A-Z of walking: C
C is for Company Curmudgeon Man
Tags: Christopher Somerville, humour, opinion
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14 Aug 09, 12.07PM
Walking Class Hero – How Did I Get Here?
I like maps. Graphical representations that facilitate a spatial understanding of things, concepts, conditions, processes, or events in the human world
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7 Aug 09, 14.03PM
Walking Class Hero: That’s Not My Name
At the risk of going all Parklife on you, these days: I get up when I want, except on (every other) Wednesdays, when I go to sign-on.
Tags: butterflies, Canbury Gardens, Ham Common, Jam, Job centre, Local community, music, Parklife, Richmond Park, Walking Class Hero
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30 Jul 09, 10.17AM
Walking Class Hero – Southern Accents
I saunter off down the hill whistling Police’s Walking on the Moon while contemplating the irony that Michael Jackson is more famous for moon walking than Neil Armstrong.
Tags: Archibald Corbett, Ducks, Lewisham, Michael Jackson, Moon Walk, Pagoda, Sun Dial, Tom Petty, Unemployment, Walking Class Hero
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