Moved/moving to @wibble
Formerly: schoolteacher, academic editor, helpdesk operator, database designer, project manager, crate-catcher and tree-surgeon's assistant.
Interests: #ClassicalMusic, #StringQuartets, #Physics, #Biology, #Fiction, #Trees and #Ideas.
All photos (if not credited separately): @wibble, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Interests: #trees, #birds, #ideas and sometimes #TheArchers
| Mostly In | London, UK |
| Also Procrastinating At | https://www.simonwilks.co.uk |
Yesterday's walk was to Peckham Square where plans are afoot, or thereabouts, to demolish the arch - a monument to regeneration, apparently* - and fill the plaza with unwise fountains.
In the meantime, they've put a Christmas Tree under it and, nearby, a banner advertising unlimited fun that doesn't, on the face of it, seem to be working.
#TodaysWalk turned out to be to Lewisham, expectedly via Catford and Sydenham and Forest Hill but unexpectedly via Crofton Park, which is really Brockley and not a park and nowhere near anywhere called Crofton. The area is, however, dotted with many streets (e.g Elsiemaud) that echo the geneaology of a land surveyor, and it's possible he was busier than his lawful relations understood.
Whatever it is, it currently boasts a celebratory spruce, as pictured, which is something.
#TodaysWalk was to Brixton by way of the fancy bits of Dulwich where neither inflated carrots nor superflu have yet defeated Christmas mania.
Coincidentally, I also saw my first deflated Santa of the season. I can't be sure it was the work of a cat, but there aren't many other animals here that are quite so discerning..
#ScribesAndMakers 10, Have you ever seen a theatre production where you were impressed by the props?
Not exactly. Though, many years ago, preparing for a school production of a Lorca play, I was given a wheelbarrow and told to collect a coffin from a funeral parlour a mile away in what was, and remains, a very hilly town. The barrow was small and the lid got cracked, but I never suffered stage-fright again.
It's a grey sort of Wednesday in London, where the morning promises only emails and, if time permits, a grocery run.
Despite which, there are people out there who make it their mission to force fragments of joy into the humdrum lives of their fellow taxpayers, so here's a picture of a Celebratory Spruce at Honor Oak Park Station.
Before I forget (or after, depending on your timezone), it must be time for #BollardOfTheWeek
This week, my nomination is a bollard that stands, with four or five siblings, on the margins of Newington Causeway, as it must have done for at least thirty-nine years.
The "GLC" on the top stands for the Greater London Council, which was abolished in 1986, since when London's bollards have never been quite the same, though they weren't that beforehand either.
#TodaysWalk was to Croydon, to see how the redevelopment of St George's Walk had progressed since it started in 2018.
It's amazing what can't happen in seven years, but at least it was sunny.
#TodaysWalk was to Penge, which is already in the grip of something.
Although their trees are smaller than some (the one at Vauxhall bus station springs unbidden to mind) and arguably less elegant, quantity clearly wins out in the minds of the Pengeoisie, who proudly display a whole two of them, not far from the Millennium Rock (which, though it sounds like it might be a venue, is more in the way of a rock).
Joxean Koret (@matalaz)