communal gardens
The Alexandra & Ainsworth Estate
I used to live in a building called Utopia House. Never was a block of flats more inaccurately named, but that’s another story. One thing that used to fascinate me … Read more
Up on the roof
I’d heard that there was a new roof garden on the top of the Queen Elizabeth Hall, but not having read anything about it I was expecting a few cursory … Read more
Traffic calming
Usually a patch of ground on the edge of a road is either planted with some cursory, sad-looking shrubs or nothing at all, but in Finsbury Park there are two … Read more
Wake up and smell the roses
When I walked along a street with Steven, Tracy and Linda the other night, I was impressed that they all stopped to smell the roses. Tracy said that the best-smelling … Read more
French fancy
I nearly took a pic of the first sweet pea of the year today (a lone flower in a pot on Harley St) but then I stumbled across this huge … Read more
Abbey Road part II
I somehow managed to miss my turning on my walk home yesterday and ended up by the Beatles zebra crossing. Sometimes I quite like crossing it as it’s so iconic, … Read more
Back to school
I went to pick up my nephew Joe from school the other day. He goes to the same school that I went to in the 1970s and almost everything about … Read more