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June 12th 2020. The shed, with water sources comprising the water butt and mains water supply and hose nearby. A very young Mulberry tree...

That's stretching it a bit, but this is sort of how things have shaped up as at June 17th 2020.

... on the Thames. Not as ambitious a cycle ride as perhaps you first thought. Nonetheless, a gratefully received suggestion from friend...

Eight quirky “treats” on the Thames. Oh I'd have fun if I were an estate agent ... 1. Hampton: Overlooking the water works, and a stones...

That fearsome fate awaited the second incarnation of this iconic theatre, more of which shortly. The current (third) theatre is shown...

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October 2019 April 2020 and the asparagus waking up on time for late April to mid-June picking. Spring 2020 (the bloke on my shed roof is...

An occupant of one of the barges and boats moored nearby has clearly come across something unpleasant under the Kingston Bridge arches....

The theme of expansion for places of worship to accommodate a growing population on the back of an extending rail network has threaded...

Quite a career. This is a bronze bust in Richmond, on the Surrey bank of the Thames, a few yards from the bridge. It celebrates a South...

Tuesday, May12th. Tommy Cooper, for my money one of THE great comedians, was born in Caerphilly, Wales in 1921. When he wasn’t hanging...

Banksy unveils new artwork as he says statue toppling of slave trader Edward Colston should be commemorated. The caption on the Instagram...

The London cholera epidemics of the early 19th Century were caused, and perpetuated, by contaminated drinking water. An engineer...

So wrote a well-known local luminary to British general, statesman and friend Henry Seymour Conway in September 1774 following a month of...

June 9th 2020 And they did. I appreciate the actual quote was “Build it and he will come”, spoken by Ray Liotta in the 1989 film Field of...

In this morning’s route order: 1. Richmond bridge looking looking south-west (see Post 67 for more) 2. Footbridge in Twickenham from York...

Orleans House, built on the Middlesex bank of the Thames in Twickenham in 1710, became home in 1737 to, (among others in it‘s 216 years),...