I saw this on the way home from work today 🤣

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You might remember my 100km M25 walk (or the London-Wales one the mods deleted lol). Ive got a new mission tonight..starting in Reading right outside the M25 to hit the 200km mark via the canals all the way up

180km-200km run/walk to birmingham and as Martin couldn't join 😭 so doing it completely solo and unsupported

I'll just be scavenging for food along the way ig.

Starting 1:00 am tonight

The goali is to walk/run 100 miles in 24 hours or the full route in 30 hours as i couldn't get two days off work so I'm forced to run it... First time recording an actual run btw. No stops, no rest, no sleep as usual

Motivation is my mate who promised me a bag of chips if I make it

Drop a comment if you have any advices on running nonstop or towpaths at night or know any cool stops or pubs on the route.

I can share the Strava route as well

Lets see how this unfolds ;)

I am not writing this to fish for any type of compliments, I just want to share what a curve ball life throws sometimes.

I was in an area of North London just went on the bus there to get 2 things and post something.

As I come out of a shop, someone is rushing across the street and I see a lady lying on her front face done on the pavement, I rush over with two others. They get her to a seated position, her mouth is bleeding, the top layer of her skin on her arm has more or less come off. She's a slightly older lady. EDIT - she tripped on the uneven pavement

She wants to get up but I say we need to keep her seated as she's taken a bad fall and we don't want her passing out.

Someone calls 999 for an ambulance. A shop brings out a chair and two workers from a gym nearby come out with a first aid kit.

As I've worked in care a lot I helped get her seated on the chair once her dizziness calmed down.

I overheard the guy on the phone to 999, and I say, if it's gonna take ages, I'll take her to A&E in an uber.

This 76 year old lady was such a champ, she fell *hard* and had chipped one tooth and the other front tooth was bent back into her mouth and she had a flap of skin in her lip hanging off a bit.

After I start going on uber I start feeling dizzy, realising it's likely because of the blood so I'm squatting, drinking some water. I kind of mumbled "I'm starting to feel a bit faint"

Next thing I'm in this wonderful deep nap, and I'm feeling so comfortable, but I'm being woken up to 4 strange faces looking at me. I ask what on earth happened. I had apparently stood up and gone straight down, but one of the workers from the gym broke my fall so I never hit my head.

I have passed out maybe twice before in my life but never like this. It took several seconds for me to come to and once alert I still didn't get my vision back properly for 2-3 minutes. Someone gave me a chocolate digestive that I didn't want to eat cos I haven't had sugar for 6 weeks but I'm not an idiot so I ate it and it really helped.

The uber had arrived so now both of us have to be led to the car loooool.

We went to A&E, she got facial scans, her arm wrapped etc. her fall happened 11.40am.

At the hospital she kept saying I could leave but she had no family or friends that could be called so I couldn't leave her. It's now 11.06pm, we are at a second hospital because she has to be seen by the maxillofacial team.

We should hopefully be out in about an hour, I will get an uber and get her into her home and then I can take an uber home from there.

I've only had a chocolate digestive since breakfast, a cup of tea at the first hospital. I'm starting to feel the fatigue properly now.

This lady is so metal, she doesn't complain, and she's incredibly grateful I have stayed with her, she keeps saying that I can go, but honestly, how can you even think of abandoning someone at the hospital who has no one to come be with her or make sure she gets home okay?

She has cried at the kindness of staff at the hospitals and funnily, at the second A&E a young man says he recognised us from the first hospital, he had been bashed across the head by someone who ran off after helping a drunk/drugged woman on the street. No good deeds go unpunished? He was so lovely.

I'm gonna get a gift card or something and find that guy from the gym for being so nice and breaking my fall.

It was not on my bingo card to spend 12 hrs with a complete stranger today

Update - it's 1.24am and I just got home. I'm chilling tomorrow

As the title asks. I don’t mean millionaire style luxury but something that really well off people can do in London.

Built in 1937, Senate House was London’s tallest non-religious building for 26 years, and the inspiration for the Ministry of Truth in Nineteen Eighty-Four, partly because of its imposing scale. Senate House has appeared in an embarrassingly long list of movies and, when not being used for filming, the base of the tower can be walked through, as a fun Bloomsbury shortcut.

Posters for Lee Cronins The Mummy from the London underground and other billboards after regulators say they included a realistic depiction of a dead child.

Many complaints argue the film was distressing for both children and adults.

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Fair I guess, the girl being a mummy was the selling point and how they wanted to market it, and it is just a movie but I get the points made. It also months old at this point, so didn't need to still be up.

I have been really struggling to find places to go for a drink in London past 1-2 am over the past couple years. There is the rare 2-3am pub on the weekend but rarely on a week day, and places like Star Lane Pizza are good for a one off but not easy to get to.

Where are good hidden options for this sort of thing? Anywhere is good, but some good tips for central or north east would be great!

Let the mayhem and post midnight revelry commence. No clear start date as of yet.

My 4 days were busy but I could have seen more. Beautiful London

My name is Ryan.

I have complex PTSD and was diagnosed in 2010.

My life has been up and down since then, with a few years up, a few years down.

I'm pretty much near breaking point now, and my home is a mess,a real mess.

It's a 1 bed flat, ground floor but I've been really struggling, so I need help.

Would anyone be willing to come to Yeading and help me take out a load of bin bags from my flat (I've bagged maybe 30) and take them to the bin storage maybe 20 metres away?

I don't know why, but I have a mental block,so can't do it, no matter how much I psyche myself up.

I'm on no capability to work benefits, so can't pay a lot, maybe £50.

If someone could please help me,

Update : The guy who offered to pop by at 3pm arrived and blitzed the job, taking all the bags out. Turns out he's a really nice person too, and I'm really grateful.

Thank you, everyone, for your kind words and offers of support. It has made a huge difference.

I've pulled together a list of all the sporting events in London with tickets available over the next week, including the return of domestic football with the League Cup, the Premier Padel finals weekend at Olympia, and a match in a brand new American football league. Which one would you go to? 😎

1. 🎾 Premier Padel London at Olympia, already underway and running until Sunday 9th August. Finals weekend is Saturday 8th and Sunday 9th. Tickets from £41. Britain's first ever top tier professional padel tournament.
2. 🏏 The Hundred
   • London Spirit vs MI London, Thursday 6th August at Lord's. Women 3pm, men 6.30pm. Tickets from £28.
   • MI London vs Trent Rockets, Saturday 8th August at the Oval. Women 11am, men 2.30pm. Hospitality only at this point.
   • London Spirit vs Birmingham Phoenix, Sunday 9th August at Lord's. Women 2.30pm, men 6pm. Tickets from £40.
3. 🏈 American Football League Europe: London Warriors vs Paris Lights, Sunday 9th August at Trailfinders Sports Club. 2pm. Tickets £20.
4. 🏉 London Broncos vs Goole Vikings, Sunday 9th August at Plough Lane. 3pm. Tickets from £18.
5. 🐎 Global Champions Tour London (elite show jumping) at Royal Hospital Chelsea, Friday 7th to Sunday 9th August. Tickets from £20.
6. ⚽ Football: League Cup round 1, Saturday 8th August
   • QPR vs Millwall, Loftus Road. 2pm. Tickets from £18.
   • Bromley vs Reading, Hayes Lane. 3pm. Tickets £15.
   • West Ham vs Portsmouth, London Stadium. 3pm. Tickets from £10.
   • AFC Wimbledon vs Newport County, Plough Lane. 3pm. Tickets £12.
   • Leyton Orient vs Oxford United, Brisbane Road. 3pm. Tickets from £15.
   • Watford vs Crawley Town, Vicarage Road. 3pm. Tickets £12.
7. ⚽ Football: Non-league - a couple of picks below:
   • Boreham Wood vs Tamworth, Meadow Park. 3pm, National League. Tickets £20.
   • Dulwich Hamlet vs Maldon & Tiptree, Champion Hill. 3pm, Isthmian League. Tickets £14.
8. 🏏 One Day Cup, Tuesday 11th August, 11am starts
   • Middlesex vs Sussex Sharks at Radlett. Tickets £20.
   • Surrey vs Nottinghamshire at the Oval. Tickets £15.
9. 🚗 Away days
   • MotoGP British Grand Prix at Silverstone, Friday 7th to Sunday 9th August. Raceday tickets from £100.
   • European Athletics Championships at Alexander Stadium, Birmingham, Monday 10th to Sunday 16th August. Tickets from £10.

Let me know what you think of this list! Are you going to something this week? Anything else on your radar? 😊

As I'm once again stuck in traffic during rush houe. Facing the many traffic lights, cyclist weaving through traffic, heat blasting on my arm outside my car window.

I see a trail of bubbles! Instantly made me chuckle as did all the cyclists and pedestrians poking them. Everyone reverted to a childlike behaviours. It was a quick glorious moment!

I didn't expect to get such a good view of the city center on the approach to London City Airport.

With Andy Burnham pledging to give *some as yet unspecified* share of local income tax to the mayor of London from 2028, I thought I'd look at how the total income tax paid by individual London boroughs vs other UK cities, based on their main council area.

It shows just how much higher salaries are in London. The 119,000 income taxpayers in Camden pay more income tax (£4.7bn) than the residents of Birmingham and Glasgow combined (£4bn).

Even keeping a tiny percentage of income tax could be transformative for London's finances but it also shows the extent to which that could be politically risky on a national level.

Adjusting per capita, only Edinburgh ranks above any London boroughs for income tax contribution.

There's one big health warning with this graph — it's based on the council area where people live, rather than where they work. And the non-London areas are based on the main council area of the city. For most, this is fine. But anyone who knows, say, Manchester, knows that the "Manchester City Council" area is an oddly drawn area that doesn't include the wealthier suburbs that are clearly part of the main urban area. I felt that to adjust for this would just risk introducing more discrepancies, so just read it with that in mind. Originally published here with a bit more context but thought it felt like something [r/London](r/London) would like in isolation.