Some of the M25 between the A12 and M11 junctions now has four lanes but the road surface is a bit patchwork.

The British Open Slalom Championship last weekend near Chelmsford was a knock out competition with the skateboarders going in pairs.  The riders go about their sport in the same laid back manner as the longboarders, riders walking back up the hill after their grand slalom run cone marshalling the rider coming down.  Opportunities for grand slalom in the UK must be few and some riders had improvised using duct tape to pull t-shirts snugger for better aerodynamics.  More pix here and of Saturday's longboarding here.

It's not until you see the size of the bicycle transition area at the large town near Chelmsford triathlon that it sinks in how big the event is.  By late morning Sunday there were five tables dishing out race numbers but the supervisor told us that at one point over the weekend there were sixteen.

In the sunshine the ExCel centre didn't seem quite the industrial wilderness of our last visit but the parking is still expensive and bet some near the coast St Johns would like one of these.  More pix here.

When we were a medium sized child in the east end of a large town near Chelmsford we did buy Dick Bird lollies (usually banana flavoured) from pedal powered trikes very like this one outside Andy Tiernan's last weekend.  At 3pm on a summer's Sunday afternoon in Viccy Park the lollies were usually sufficiently melted to be on the point of falling apart and look at these prices.

In a large town near Chelmsford in a hall with some but not a lot of oxygen the London Roller Girls season championship yesterday had the visiting Rainy City Roller Girls from Manchester coming back strongly in the second half but still losing 96-181 to the Steam Rollers, and the Suffra Jets retained the championship (it was closer than it looks) 104-76 against the Ultraviolent Femmes ... and then <gulp> Dot Slash and El Visious became derby wives <sob> ... <blows nose in grubby handkerchief> ... more pix here.

We spent four of our teenage years brain numblingly commuting on the Central line so we do find this rather breath taking.

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