June Challenge I.(c) - 6 buses, Bourne Hill and I am hair

My notebooks fell off my shelf and I started looking through them and there were journeys I'd been on by bus written in some of them, that I never got around to writing up. Here is one such journey:

I did June Challenge I.(c) Buses, but which June I did it in, I am unsure now. Maybe I have photos and tracks to accompany it somewhere. Anyway, for this challenge, I got on the first bus that came along, then got off after 9 stops.

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(Cross-posted to flaneurs)

What I did in March 2019

I caught a glimpse of a Korean house that had landed on a bridge above a busy road.

I ran around Bristol wearing cat ears, while playing Ingress. An Anomaly was happening and I was a Media Moggy. My team, the Enlightened, won the Anomaly! I also did some missions for Mission Day, and some other missions that took me around Bristol to stare at some of the graffiti. I also tried some tatratea liqueur and met some fun new people.

I walked on the pier in Herne Bay, and along the beach, past beach huts. I stared at the sea. I played Dance Dance Revolution in the arcade, and air hockey with my mum.

Back in London, my shadow was captured at the Science Museum, which I visited with family, and we marvelled at rockets.

I ate purple carrot cake flavour nitro ice-cream, went to Pub Standards for drinks with web folk, and visited the Photographer's Gallery and saw some challenging exhibitions.

I celebrated sbp's 50th birthday in an unusually decorated pub.

I ate lunch with jacquic at Stem + Glory. Aubergine, mmm.

I had drinks with Frood.

I visited the Riverside Gallery in Richmond and saw the Imprinted Memories exhibition and ate ice-cream at Danieli's.

I saw a performance of the Myth of the Singular Moment at the Vaults Festival. Must try to go to see more things next year!

I walked on Wimbledon Common, but didn't see any Wombles.

I think I ate goujons for the first time. I'm not sure what the difference between goujons and fish fingers is though really.

I ate a sweet marked “surreal” and thought perhaps it would make my day more surreal. Rainbow bagels appeared after that. I went to the Barbican and watched a video of a game based on the artist's grandmother's dream diaries. I went to the Wellcome Collection Late on Cyborgs and listened to a talk by people who have designed objects such as a scarf that confuses facial recognition systems and VR experiences. I played a VR experience that started in a salon and ended up by some goddesses who had some words of wisdom. I watched a video of cyborgs dancing.

I ate a Lego biscuit and stared at the wonders of the world made from Lego, and twanged a few instruments.

I gazed out over London from 120 Fenchurch Street and bumped into friends there briefly. I enjoyed the view. It snowed very briefly then also.

I wandered through Camden and went to ChinChin Labs and ate a St Patrick's Day sundae which had lucky clover ice cream, chocolate potato cake and stout chocolate sauce. I headed to the British Library and went to an exhibition on Cats on Page, which was about books that contain cats. I listened to sounds of cats and guessed what the cats were doing. I listened to Adrian Edmondson reading The Cat in the Hat. I read about cats that are detectives and cats with magical powers and poems about cats. I listened to the Top Cat theme and then to Lovecats and danced a little bit in the library then. After that, I went to Japan House and saw an exhibition on Prototyping in Tokyo and saw robot tardigrades and artificial limbs and 3D printed structures that moved pleasantly when you picked them up.

I met up with a friend and tried a taste of durian ice cream, but the taste still makes me feel nauseous, so then I opted for Hong Kong Milk Tea ice cream in a green macaron.

I wandered into Selfridge's to look at a skip, but the art wasn't that exciting and the performances were not that often.

I went to Ladies that UX and listened to lightning talks. The moon looked beautiful on my way home.

I helped create cross-faction field art in Ingress – making a picture of the EU flag in the game by walking to different locations around London.

I went to a video game dating event!