The charge of the bullingdons

The Bullingdon people sent me an email yesterday telling of their charge across south and west London. The south pole has moved from somewhere near the Oval to King George's Park in Wandsworth and the west pole has moved from somewhere near Olympia to Ravenscourt Park west of Hammersmith - while Walworth, Bermondsey and Rotherhithe remain beyond the pale. Notwithstanding, clearly time for me to visit pastures old, perhaps including the Dove at Hammersmith (http://dovehammersmith.co.uk/), a very fine boozer in the late sixties. Will it have survived the inevitable makeovers since that time?

Pleased that I will now be able to cycle from Clapham Junction, which will extend me a bit. Puffing up Lavender Hill on the way to, say, Trafalgar Square, will be rather more testing than coasting along the embankment from Vauxhall. Indeed, I wonder whether I will make it the first time around.

One catch was that the email spoke with forked tongue about the effective date, with the main launch being on 13th December but with completion not scheduled for Spring 2014.

The other catch is the nice map which comes with the email. Handsome looking map, but when saved as a .pdf file it takes a while to load & display. Or zoom. The map appears to come in layers, with the layers being loaded one after the other, a way of doing things which I had thought was confined to the sort of technical drawings you produced with the likes of AutoCAD (see illustration and  http://www.autodesk.co.uk/).