uninteresting walk

On Boxing day (today) around 6 Perry and I walked to Kensington station and took a train to Glenbervie station. 

This used to be a retirement village at the corner of Pascoe Vale and Moreland Roads. It's been vacant forever. I know I walked around there and took photographs, maybe I blogged it, do you remember? From there, we walked haphazardly to Moonee Ponds creek and went south (in the meandering way that the creek does). You can follow the creek for a while, then you are compelled to go onto the road for a while. This was something I saw on the way. 

This block of flats which was OK I guess. 

Once we got back to the creek, Perry decided he wanted to walk in the middle of the creek. 

We went past these flats in Flemington Road which have intrigued me for a while. I see they are called Braemar. 

That's it. It was a longish walk but very little happened. 

 

commute

 

I've had some commutes in my life, West Brunswick to Warrnambool probably the longest. So North Melbourne to Parkville - you can walk that in less than half an hour - is not a major problem and I am not going to pretend it is. I really just wanted to record though the situation just prior to the opening of the new rail line that goes very close to home for me and very close to work for me too. In the meantime though the traverse between the two during peak hour is a freakin' nightmare's nightmare, in terms of the amazing duration as the bus goes into Elizabeth St with the avowed intention of turning left at Flemington Road but just sits there for tens of minutes as traffic crawls through that ludicrous junction. 

I am going to assume that the new underground is not going to make any impact on that actual crawling traffic, or very little, but I will be able to forget it after this year. Yes, I should really just walk it, that would make more sense, but sometimes - like yesterday for instance, very little sleep and a late lecture - I was a bit of a basket case as they say. I bet 'basket case' is a super offensive term in its original coining. It sounds awful when you start to think about it. Don't think about it.