First we walked along Regent's Canal from Camden Road station. My kids spotted something sinister lurking on a balcony:.
Hiring a rowing boat is a bit pricey at £20 for a family for an hour, but a kid's pedalo is pretty good value at £3 for 20 mini: 
Finally, as ridiculous as those young men look who wear trousers round their knees, it's nothing compared to all the Baby Boomers we spotted walking along with idiot sticks like this. Have some dignity, FFS:
Sunday, 25 March 2012
Afternoon outing to Camden & Regent's Park
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Those sticks are city cattle prods. Look where the cow ended up.
What you are seeing there is something called Nordic Walking
It's very similar to Nordic Skiing except without the ski's, snow or being in Norway
AKH, possibly. I've even seen people with idiot sticks in central London, but maybe that's why you never see cows there?
PC ... and without the dignity.
There's also a cow on a balcony over in Barnes:
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Given that these are both close to water, I'd hazard a guess (without being too alarmist about it) that they're harbingers of a river-borne cow invasion of London.
AC, oo-er. "Once is circumstance, twice is happenstance" If we see another of these, it's enemy action.
Wearing my pedant's cap, it's The Regent's Park rather than Regent's Park.
By the way, that's a nice walk, the canal is a splendid feature that far too few people know even exists.
TFB, I checked whether there was an apostrophe or not, but I wouldn't use "the" even if it were correct (which it is) because it sounds ridiculously stupid to go round putting "the" in front of place names. Like missing off "the" in front of 'Empire' or 'Conference'.
In the Nordic countries, they just call walking walking, and it's frequently being done without any help from the upper body. If people need weaponry for the protection against bovines, they can carry a handgun, with far less inconvenience and loss of dignity (depending on jurisdiction ofcourse). I agree, these poles are horrible, and more then once I've said to users to get a cane instead, much more dignified.
Anticipating snow?
maybe the walker was expecting a sheet of black ice somewhere in the locality? Although I have seen people use them while moving down a bus.
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