🚲 An easy way to cycle from Kentish Town to Marylebone without traffic

I saw the tow path when leaving kings cross one night, I'm not sure where I thought it would take me – home? It's so narrow, bit scary tbh, I can feel my shoulders tightening and my teeth gritting… I gave up and dismounted a bit before Camden as there was a market, a one way street and then the bridge which I had to walk over before I think heading down to the windy corner and the big tax office 🫢 before back across central London 😅x

Cycling on the canal way too scary. Much prefer to cycle the Prince Albert Rd or Outer Circle

Claudius Ash was an ancestor of mine. A battlefield surgeon at Waterloo, he reasoned that as most of the dead were young, their teeth were in good condition, they didn't need them any more, whereas there was a nice living back in London extending life expectancies. His Waterloo teeth were a hit, the first commercially available false teeth, but it upset the French, knowing that their dead would be gummies before the Lord at the second coming – accusing someone of being a "tire-dents" (tooth puller) is a invitation to settle matters outside.
The Church of Marylebone has considerable musical connections, as all the Wesley family, major composers of hymns at the start of Methodism, lie in the churchyard, and John Rutter was also baptised there. His father, using connections in nearby Harley Street, was a freelance biochemist working with Cadburys, which probably explains why they lived with his gran, Landlady of The Globe pub on the opposite corner to Baker Street station. It does a roaring trade reinforcing the fortitude of commuters braving the rigours of the Metropolitan Line.
The Harley Street connection is significant, as the Church is actually a healer's sanctuary, with a plethora of undisclosed altars in the crypt, which has been converted into an NHS clinic, in part. I share their clergy's use of The Lord's Prayer as a mantra used for the maintenance of the body's meridians, for example in acupuncture (I test as a Reiki master, unexpectedly, but there we go, my career background's almost identical to that of Usui's group's in Japan a hundred years ago, so replication shows it's not as woo-woo as many think). I'd long suspected it, but when I accompanied their events organiser to do the heavy lifting collecting a stand to help John conduct us, I honoured the hidden altar it was part of the fittings for, getting a surprised ping back from an astonished cleric. That told her all she needed to know, I was safe left alone to replace it.

The weather was gorgeous yesterday, could not have gone any better 🎉

Lovely weather again. Seeing those fallen leaves abounding reminded me I used to cycle in all weathers (and still have the waterproofs ro prove it!!).

Got to agree with others concerned with the canalside route. I'd be just as worried as a pedestrian especially with spogs and /or dogs in tow. The earliest section in particular set the sort of "butterflies" going in my stomach I normally associate with my vertigo.

It's not towpaths in general …. it's the width of that towpath in particular. This seems like one for canal restoration trusts to take onboard, as let's face it, towpaths weren't originally intended for the sole use of the green welly bigade and their four legged friends, any more than they were for cyclists. The change of use in the "leisure age" really needs to be more of a consideration … where land prices allow(!)

Congrats to the happy couple!

That was a really nice gesture to the newlyweds, very considerate 🙂 (also, I got the sweats at some points on the canal towpath, yikes haha)