Yet again,
where has that month gone? I must get more disciplined, writing the blog more
frequently with shorter entries and more pictures.
Yet more selling
I’ve sold the
old bookcase/display cabinet using eBay. I had thought to keep it for all my
books and for sentimental reasons. But no, be strong, it must go. This
downsizing house clearance business is not easy, especially when sentiment is
involved. I suspect modern furniture does not generate the same sense of family
attachment as used to be the case.
James was very
keen to have the bookcase as it just fitted a space in his place. Bought me a
bottle wine as thanks! He and his son came to collect so I got them to put the
carcase of the military chest on the roof of my car and I drove it back up to
Melton to put in the store.
Doing 50mph in
the slow lane was very relaxing. Everyone else has to work round you!
Bike
Is now fully
fitted out with mudguards, panniers and padlock. No excuse now for avoiding
exercise by cycling and swimming. I can cycle down to the pool in ten minutes.
Deep breath!
It’s not easy
getting in and out of the wheelhouse!
I’ve ordered a
cover so that I can keep it outside.
New bird species
Delighted to
see a pair of Teal close to Lady Cate. First time I’ve ever seen them. They are
delicate and graceful in build and movement. Beautiful.
[Pictures from Google Images]
Mailbox
Really
settling in now so I’ve got a mailbox. It has to compete with the many others outside
the office stairs so I thought I’d get something slightly different. I needed
to paint my name and Lady Cate’s on the side but couldn’t get transfers or
stencils anywhere in Woodbridge but I found some children’s play letters,
painted them and stuck them on.
The finished
article.
In place on the
office stairway post amongst the others, flag aloft!
Low tide, clear morning, wide open
skies
A picture is
worth 10,000 words.
Four more teals?
beaks down flat
happily sucking, slurping, sieving across the mud. Not the same as the first
pair I saw. I didn’t know there were many varieties of teal. These new ones are
most probably a bird I’d never heard of, Garganey, females.
Wander in London
Having stayed
overnight with Allie, my younger daughter, a curate in Shadwell, I wandered
back to Liverpool Street station through the transformed old docklands and the
City. The walk to the Tower, despite intense residential development, is very peaceful. Everyone's at work!
Surprising
wildlife on the way.
Bold,
confident Canada Geese.
Tufted Duck in the old dock waterway.
Memorial
sculpture with The Shard in the distance.
Feeding the
birds.
A bold
black-headed gull.
Cluttons – one
of dozens of estate agents dealing with the thousands of flats built in the
renovated warehouses.
Early morning grey! The Shard, The Council House and Tower Bridge.
Thames moorings at low tide.
Rear of the
warehouses, now converted into flats, with London hire bikes.
The Dickens
Inn, St. Katherine’s Dock
St. Katherine’s
Dock, rescued anchor at one end of a retractable pedestrian bridge designed by the
great canal engineerTelford.
More of
Telford’s bridge in the foreground, brutalist hotel, converted warehouses and
luxury yachts in between.
The cannon of
the Tower of London reminding Boris who’s boss.
HMS Belfast
and a modern river ferry.
Hard at work
guarding the Tower!
Bemused
tourists.
Ancient and
Modern
And in to The
City past one of its guardians.
HASTA LA VISTA!
