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DRAWING & PAINTING:
5 July
A stroll round Beckenham Place Park. It has lots of wide open areas between the woods, as it was a golf course a few years ago before it became a public park.
Metal waymarker posts in the woods, and a knobbly old fig tree near the flower gardens.
More trees at Ravensbourne Station, on the back of the building as you go down the walkway to the platform.
6 July
We went to see Superbloom at the Tower of London, where they have changed the moat from flat grass to paths and mounds covered in wild flowers.
They are going to keep it like this as an attraction for visitors as well as to help the wildlife in London.
You have to pay to walk round but there is plenty to see free from the perimeter path up above.
At the entrance they have stairs and a slide, you can choose how you descend!
8 July
A quite hot day is forecast, so we went to Morden Hall Park which has lots of shady areas.
This log is a seat one side, and a bike park the other side, although it took us a while to figure that out!
We went over the bridge into the garden centre, but first watched the shoals of fish in the stream.
Here is the old mill wheel and the mill race, but not turning nowadays. In the rose garden, the big round pergola is at last covered in roses.
It was getting even hotter, so time to follow the stream through the woods. The banks have been repaired, with a soft reminder not to tread on the edges. These ducks are making good use of the felled tree as their safe rest area.
Lovely and cool in here. Brown Teddy says everyone else go first and push the nettles out of the way for us!
This felled willow tree is sprouting again, there must be part of it still attached to the roots on the underside.
We went home on the tram.
10 July
Two things to do in this heat, either sunbathe to clean the feathers, or preferably soak in the deep birdbath like woody. We have five baths/saucers around the garden, and different birds like different ones.
15 July
A young one, not asking for food but singing - or least making a noise!
16 July
A very hot day at Lambeth County Fair in Brockwell Park, with funfairs, music and stalls, and also events in the arena.
We did not stay long at the fair because of the heat, we went to the Walled Garden for our sandwiches and sat in this shady brick arbour.
I could stay here all day and maybe paint pictures of the flowers!
Then we took the train to Hammersmith. This is the enormous flyover cutting through the area. We walked to the bridge, this is an old drinking fountain with the basin now containing bits of litter. The face is a lion. It needs a bit of restoration, too many layers of old paint!
Hammersmith Bridge is out of action for traffic and both ends of the chains have been covered in foil insulation, with large refrigeration units in action, to prevent movement of the rusty parts in the expected severe heatwave. We walked over the bridge.
Lots of repairs needed and we hope they manage to do it all and keep the bridge as it is.
19 July
Young wood pigeons in their nest at the station - right over the tracks. But well hidden unless someone like me saw the parent fly in with twigs some weeks ago!
24 July
Today we went to Victoria Coach Station in Chelsea, celebrating 90 years.
There were free rides on vintage buses. This one took us to Hammersmith Bridge area. We enjoyed looking at the mesmerising seat patterns!
This one took us back to Victoria.
27 July
We went to Burgess Park. This is the remains of an old lime kiln from Victorian times, before this was a park.
The day was warm but getting gloomy.
We had our sandwiches watching the lake grasses waving in the breeze.
29 July
This is Langtons Park in Hornchurch. The day was very hot and we had our snack in full sun, as the only seat we could find.
But nice cool walks around the lake!
31 July
This is the wildlife area at Shepherd's Bush Station, a bug hotel and planters for bees.
This was new to us, fitments with rings in the roadway so that motorbikes can be chained up. We went to Avondale Park for our sandwiches, and watched this Ring Necked Parakeet cleaning out a nesting hole.
Then we went to St John's Church to see the big Gaia globe. It turns very slowly to the sound of suitably planetary music.
The angels are amused but not distracted from their protective jobs at all!
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