Long Now London

 
 
 

Please join us at our new regular haunt, the George Inn, just off Borough High Street (once part of Watling Street), to the south of London Bridge Station.

The George is London's only surviving galleried coaching inn, the kind of establishment that (along with bear bating pits) contributed to the form of the Elizabethan theatres made famous in Shakespeare's time.

Come for conversations about long-term thinking, deep time, futures, maintenance, a wide range of -ologies and -isms depending on the crowd, and all kinds of attempts to think even just a little outside of the rapid fire frameworks encouraged by these accelerating times.

All very welcome.

 
 
 

This July meetup is just a couple of weeks before our annual day of horse chalking. We hope to see you in the pub whether you'll be with us in Uffington or not!

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Please join us at our new regular haunt, the George Inn, just off Borough High Street (once part of Watling Street), to the south of London Bridge Station.

The George is London's only surviving galleried coaching inn, the kind of establishment that (along with bear bating pits) contributed to the form of the Elizabethan theatres made famous in Shakespeare's time.

Come for conversations about long-term thinking, deep time, futures, maintenance, a wide range of -ologies and -isms depending on the crowd, and all kinds of attempts to think even just a little outside of the rapid fire frameworks encouraged by these accelerating times.

All very welcome.

 
 
 

Our Fifth annual Horse Chalking.

Date & Time
The day for this gathering is set: Monday 24th July 02023.

Chalking takes place from 10am until 4pm, after which we will walk to a nearby pub for drinks and food. Whichever pub we go with this year, hopefully the taxi arrangements will be simpler than in 02022!

Travel
The exact plan for getting there and back will be confirmed how many of us are coming and from which directions. It is likely that (as in previous years) a group will travel by train from London Paddington to Swindon.
For those arriving by car, parking is available at the White Horse Hill site.

Attendance
Please RSVP, saying if you are coming to/from London (and if not, where you are coming from).
In the past our numbers have been limited to 25 (including children old enough to wield a chalking hammer).
Likeminded and interested new members are welcome. Please join the Meetup group and send me a message for confirmation.

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Since summer 02019 a group from Long Now London has travelled to Oxfordshire to spend a day "chalking the horse" at Uffington. Our intent is to do this every year, helping the National Trust maintain this 3,000 year old geoglyph much as it has been maintained throughout its existence.

Drone footage of our first chalking day is here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpuNXCZWEg6NxKzramrsZetlUBZsGHZyY
(thanks, Peter Landers)

A Long Now piece about that visit can be found here: https://medium.com/the-long-now-foundation/what-a-prehistoric-monument-reveals-about-the-value-of-maintenance-4d1b89343984
(thanks, Ahmed Khabil)

 
 
 

Please join us at our new regular haunt, the George Inn, just off Borough High Street (once part of Watling Street), to the south of London Bridge Station.

The George is London's only surviving galleried coaching inn, the kind of establishment that (along with bear bating pits) contributed to the form of the Elizabethan theatres made famous in Shakespeare's time.

Our booking is for tables inside, but if the weather is good we could try to find space in the courtyard. There's also a chance that (with London in the summer being what it is) we could decide to meet in a park instead... but please do RSVP here to be kept informed if that happens!

Come for conversations about long-term thinking, deep time, futures, maintenance, a wide range of -ologies and -isms depending on the crowd, and all kinds of attempts to think even just a little outside of the rapid fire frameworks encouraged by these accelerating times.

All very welcome.