Thursday 21st May 2020
26C Mad dogs.
This is the climbing attraction in Battersea Park, called Go Wild or Go Die or summat. A is convinced he wants to do it, despite a fear of heights, and vertigo. He’ll likely pay the hefty fee to get in and on the first rung go: ‘Don’t like it’ like in Little Britain, then have to crawl back down again.
It’s got three levels of walkways crisscrossing a corner or the woods near the kiddies playgrounds, apparently a 3hr ride if you do all of it. Would absolutely love to.
Hayfever season, but this year I’m not stricken. Second time since ever. Maybe I have corona.
Sun was glorious. Being a Wednesday it wasn’t too jammed. All the hot bods are out, one stretch of the lawn’s becoming like Muscle Beach. I bet all those cross-fitters just come here for the chance to show off again once out the hermit cave that is lockdown, and why not? I mean what’s the point in getting yourself a six-pack when you can’t show it off? Especially when it’s gettin so hot so hot I wanna take my clothes off. Imagine being a doctor you’ve studied to be for years, and someone has a heart attack in the crowd. That’s what being hot and hot is like. Yes, you tell yourself, you’re practically a public service.
Big silent killers. Damn things everywhere. There were about 4 in all the lakes. A nerdy teenager spent his trip feeding the wildfowl, deep in concentration, thought it very sweet -it’s normally tourists or grannies.
Seven.
Some parts of London you really don’t notice until stopping to look at your everyday. The sheer size of some of the trees, that must be centuries old we take for granted.
This inverted tripod of a London plane struck me as perfect for a treehouse.
Evidence of someone having a shitty day:
Lots of banana trees had broken out of their sacking -not sure if the lack of gardeners these days resulted in the mesh not being removed. Looking Dalek-like in many corners -pub quiz fact, bananas have the largest leaves in the plant kingdom, up to 18m/ 60ft given the optimal conditions. There’s a big thing though with many banana species having gotten extinct, and the ones we eat only ever being able to reproduce with cuttings these days.
The sun being out meant me stopping to take snaps so often, faced with opps every few feet. A getting annoyed but he’s Mediterranean and used to this weather. Everything suddenly looks so much improved, and epic.
The architecture certainly looks better, once again you stop to notice your everyday.
Didn’t realise we had turtles. Biggest carp I’ve ever seen, nearly a metre long.
Reddest thing I’ve ever seen. Literally hard to look at it in the sun. Have actually had to tone down the colour in the snap to make out the petals.
Urban jungle -this area has canopy layers.
Beautiful day.
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