#TodaysWalk was to Tooting, where it wasn't sunny, and specifically to St George's Hospital.

There I found a heraldic lion and unicorn stuck in a flowerbed at the end of the car-park, presumably to remind us that, though some may get orbs and sceptres, we'll all get something nasty.

They were completed, apparently, in 1953. Which is odd, because St George's Hospital, Tooting didn't exist until 1954. So there's a historical, and possibly criminal, puzzle for those that can be bothered.

I was feeling a bit down, so #TodaysWalk was all uphill to Crystal Palace, where I found the horse chestnuts blatantly waving their pink pagodas.

Irises are out, too. As are the hawthorns, rhododendrons, lilacs and tulips. Even the oaks have given up and stuck out some leaves at last.

Above, swifts were squeaking across the sky, scythe-like harbingers of rain and midges.

On account of forecast rain #TodaysWalk was a hurried stroll in an underpromised fragment of sunshine.

Still, the hawthorns and lilacs were blossoming nicely and, on one windswept hill, so were the tamarisks.

#TodaysWalk, the result of received inspiration, was to #Penge, one of south-east London's most notorious tourist traps, where they'd hung out the bunting for the Coronation within a stone's-throw of one of Bromley's Millennium Rocks.

The rocks, of which at least a dozen are scattered around the Borough of Bromley, were a gift from the Highland Council of Scotland who presumably hadn't found a use for them, either.

For #StandingStoneSunday here's one of The Stones of Croydon.

This example, representing the Ward of Bensham Manor (a ward which, like the manor, no longer exists) has stood for more than eight years in the formal splendour of Trumble Gardens, an open space created in the mid-20th Century by anti-social action.

A tasteful plaque on the sunnier side of the stone gives further details, but not many.