Concrete is Fun and Interesting... Honest!

My   roadtrips   are getting further from home and require increasing amounts of time and planning, and sooner or later I’ll reach a point where daytrips simply aren’t viable   any more , and at that point I’ll probably stop, whether I’m on a round number or not.  But I’m not there yet.  I have plans.  There are still parts of the country within reach that I’ve not yet visited.  I have unfinished business in a few of the places that I’ve already been to.  There are pillars I want to bag to extend runs of   consecutrigs , or   fill in gaps in sequences.  I want to re-attempt a few of my failures, which I rarely talk about, having since figured out why I failed to get them.  And there’s a couple of pillars I just want to visit because they’re in some way genuinely interesting.     It would be nice to bag my 700 th   trigpoint at some stage, too.  But mostly, I want to see more of southern England, because it’s...

October, and back on the road again; this time the road in question is a quiet little country lane called the M25, which led me to Epping Forest, from where I struck out north, only to find myself bewildered and disappointed by some of the trigs I found. S4750 Monkhams Hall and S4474 Bromley Common both fall into the bewildering category, for similar reasons – both are accessible via lengthy driveways which are clearly signed as Private, and in the latter case, watched over by CCTV.  Ordinarily, I would apply Rule One here and either find an alternative route or move on to the next one…  but the same driveways were also clearly signed as PROWs just a few metres away.  Confused by the contradictions, I strode purposefully up the tracks regardless.  I was spotted at both locations, but nobody paid me any interest, so I’m assuming that the Footpath and Bridleway signs at these locations take preference – for pedestrians, at least.  The latter trig is sited beside t...