Post Comment Love 23-25 April

April 23, 2021

Welcome to this week’s #PoCoLo - a friendly linky which I co-host with Suzanne, where you can link any post published in the last week. We know you’ll find some great posts to read, and maybe some new-to-you blogs too, so do pop over and visit some of the posts linked and share some of that love. If you were here last week it was great to have you along, if you’re new here this week we’re pleased you’re here.

This week has been a warm one in my front of the house make-do office, and in complete contrast to MOH’s back of the house fridge. It’s been a week of moans about being cold, but not putting the heating on and most definitely not using the throw that’s right next to him. Not sure my response of can’t help then has been particularly welcomed, but probably because he knows what the answer is.

Next week I have some time off, my first week off since October - and I can’t wait. I’m planning to catch up with all sorts of things, blog reading included. Let’s hope I’m still feeling so productive next week.

City green spaces

April 20, 2021

You don’t think of the City as having green spaces, but it does - and plenty more than you think. We headed into town over Easter to visit some old haunts to see how they’ve changed, and if I’m honest for some different views. Before this visit, our last trip into town was a wet Monday evening for dinner at Blixen, in gold trainers no less, back in March 2020. We were long overdue a visit.

Arriving into Cannon Street we first headed up towards St Pauls, through Paternoster Square over the road and past the small green space above before heading over to Postman’s Park, which I first visited back in 2014, having failed to find it in all the time I worked in the City.

The camellias were in flower and I could’t help but stop and admire them and read some of the heroic memorials.

some of the testimonies in postman's park.jpeg

moss on the grill over a pond with a water feature in postman's park.jpeg

I was quite taken with how the moss is creeping along the girders, softening them. From here we headed towards the Guild Hall, which as a sign of the times is now a Covid test centre, so no photos from there. We headed around towards Wood Street and found another pocket garden, this one with a fabulous magnolia tree in full flower.

a magnolia behind wood street police station.jpeg

And some hedges which reflect the state of the nation’s hair.

We crossed London Wall rising up onto the walkways of the Barbican, which even on its outskirts has some fabulous architecture and is more than just concrete.

heading into the barbican, not green just yet.jpeg

a green space on the barbican's highwalk.jpeg

Even on the walkway there were pockets of green, and more. As you can see below the space is much more interesting with what looks like a historic ruin, places to sit and sculptures too.

And many of the walkways were edged with living walls similar to this. There’s way more green spaces in the City than you’d expect - if you get to visit, look out for it, I’m pretty sure you’ll be surprised.

Post Comment Love 16-18 April

April 16, 2021

I don’t know about you, but following the changes as part of the next step of the Roadmap here in the UK, nothing much in my daily life has changed. We haven’t been to a pub, or even met up with people outside. I am going to the hairdresser’s tomorrow, for a cut that’s well overdue. And I’m looking forward to that - my last hair cut was due in mid January, so it’s been a while.

What we have done since Easter is venture slightly further afield for a walk, and it’s been nice to see some different views. At Easter we headed into the City and wandered around - and that’s where this week’s photo is from. Part of our route took us to Spitalfields where the food trucks were open. We arrived at lunchtime-ish so we ate there, and admired Dogman and Rabbitgirl.

My post this week is from a walk last weekend along the Thames Path, so more different views. I love Greenwich Park and where we live, but it’s been good to see a little bit more, maybe soon we’ll broach seeing actual people and going to some of the places that have opened.