left mine around 7:15pm, knowing the sunset was due @ 7:40...
wanted to get out there at least once...
cycled out northish... i love the way my mind gradually finds out where i'm going...
crossed over the railway at alexandra palace station, into ally pally park... joining the route me & dad walked on wednesday (and indeed, me & emma walked last sunday)...
could see the sunset was the other side of the hill so i tried to move up to it... joining another path traversing the hillside...
i could hear music from the palace, a random guy working the barriers told me it was indian music..
one of those lovely experiences where you can hear the sound sometimes, when the wind is in the right direction...
passed on towards the edge of the park, other side from the station, the light fading as i reached the passage under muswell hill road, then the disused to highgate...
by now i'd started singing, an imaginary gig where i'm singing with the audience at the top of the gig...
"you know you are you know you are you know" - quick, in 3's...
triggering a slower part "you know the way you are"
went past that fantastic view over london... (the journey back's dark view of it at the top, the journey there's evening view, wednesday's view with dad here , last sunday's with emma below, and old friend J's drawing from 2008 at the bottom)
cycled on the highgate, out of the parkland and then along to the entrance to highgate woods... almost cycled in but i could see they would be closing the gates @ 8 & i guess it was 7:55 or so...
so i locked up my little bike on the road and went into the woods... singing as i went, the song growing all the time...
sat on a log and smoked half of the little fella i'd brought with me...
walking on i was videoing my face, while walking - singing the song wherever it was then and i came accross two park ranger types, R & D, who told me they were locking up... i told them i'd be ok and that if i needed to i could jump over the fence... R told me to be careful...
i walked on, now in a part of the woods i hadn't been in before... with the light failing more and more... a fence, across my path, a sign announcing a conservation area... finding a way around...
now off all paths... starting to slightly worry about the darkness and tripping over... i found my way back to a path and stuck to it...
getting to a gate just as R was locking it... i asked to be let out and it was onto an odd path that goes by the side of the woods, i walked along singing my song and just as i reached the corner of the woods and walked around to where my bicycle was locked up i could see R, or her shadow between the wooden bars of the fence...
she was locking the gate just as i was unlocking my bike...
back along the disused, stopping at the amazing view to take the night time panorama that is at the top of this post...
met one more random person @ ally pally - where i took loads more potential panoramas, chatted about games, both of us keen to see portal 2 when it arrives... i smoked the other half as we talked...
the song now much more complete - a chorus that i'm pleased with x
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