October 2007
english autumn
the weather has been so fantastic over the last couple of weeks (except for the rainy tuesdays). yesterday was particularly great and i loved every second of my walk from paddington station to westminster, taking in hyde park, green park and st james’ parks.
by the way, do you use walkit ? here’s the walk as they calculated it. if you live/work/walk in london you need the walkit website !
nicholas negroponte
i was lucky enough to hear mr $100 laptop speak at a conference yesterday in westminster. here he is with his back to us.
messy abbey
this photo really is a mess, but i quite like it.
3 trees
i’m not sure which of these three pictures of the same tree i like best. please sir/madam, what are you thoughts ?
snail
looks better big (so click on it!)
eccentric british gardens
this garden is just near paddington in central london (near a sign saying did you witness as gun shooting at 5pm a few weeks ago). it’s a classic british garden scene – but still a surprise to find in central london.
i wonder what it’s like to be a gnome garden. probably over rated i’d imagine.
wicken fen
i had a meeting near cambridge yesterday so i got up 3 hours earlier than i needed and got to Wicken Fen by 7.30am in the morning for an explore and a photo.
the windmill is a wind pump don’t you know
i spent ages seeking the bird hides which were quite well hidden. after playing seek the hide for a while i found one and went in for a my petrol station bought prepacked chicken sandwich. the only birds i saw were 2 pigeons and a crow. oh well.
when i arrived i went the wrong way and ended up going on the adventurers’ trail. although i didn’t see many other adventurers. so it probably should have been adventurer’s trail. am i being preposterophe ? that’s a new word i just made up, combining apostrophe and preposterous.
eventually i found the nice boardwalk bit which lead to the windmill
but not before seeing lots of nice ditches
here’s a final picture of the wind pump
rural umbrella
can you see it ?
