Nlogaxical – What am I doing here?

Rumours of Top Gear being cancelled, because Clarkson drove a new Aston amongst lovely scenery and said very little (other than a couple of short sentences relating to an ending) while an ambient classic played in the background.  Far too many Top Gear fans fearing something which isn’t likely barring the death of one of the Funboy Three doing themselves a major injury between now and autumn.  BBC Worldwide need TG, TG need you as a bunch of remote control monkeys, and you as an audience aren’t yet leaving the show in droves.

Folks need to understand the name of the tune playing through that final sequence.

Brian Eno – An Ending (Ascent). (Spotify link)

And they need to stop misinterpreting the meaning of Clarkson’s words.  He didn’t mean ‘ending of Top Gear’, he meant ‘ending of real motoring’.  Except that I don’t necessarily believe real motoring’s dead.   Not yet.  There’s still life left in the old dog yet.

On the other hand, if TG continue to dull the show down as they have (Andy Wilman reacting to budgetary constraints and a lack of the show’s former sense of imagination, I’m looking at you) – then I give it one more season before being replaced with Sunday Bollocks In The Attic.

This is the second west-east walk I’ve done in a couple of weeks.   The latest route (via Rotherhithe,  is way more interesting than the north bank of the river

GMap Pedometer

And some highlights from the first twelve miles or so before the camera battery conked out.   Select the HQ version to get a better view of things.

Walkabout

Total distance came to 24.5 miles, give or take a few hundred yards.  I’m desperate to do another soon.

Getting antsy and impatient for something new from BoC, so I’m branching out. Feels like familiar territory – a bit ‘BoC-lite’, but it’s really chilled out and I like it.

Tycho – Dictaphone’s Lament