Posts under ‘London Borough Photo Challenge’

A couple of weeks ago, I went to Mayfield Lavender Farm in Banstead. In the 18th and 19th centuries, this part of England was the centre of the world's lavender production, before urbanisation and cheap French imports did for it, so it's nice to have some back again in the same area. The farm has [...]

The day after All Stitched Up, some friends and I went to the Nunhead Cemetery open day.

I only found out about the A Moment In Time project about 10 minutes after it was supposed to happen, but I decided to take part anyway, partly because it would give me something good to take for 'Roid Week as well. So here's the view through my window on a rainy day. I love [...]

I spent last Saturday exploring two different industrial sites in south London. The first was the big hot ticket, a tour of the Brunel tunnels, open to pedestrians for the first time in almost 150 years. This was a great opportunity to see what was once known as the Eighth Wonder of the World, especially [...]

(Working off a backlog of blogposts that are knocking around my hard drive — apologies in advance for the flurry of posts you'll get today.) A couple of weekends ago a group of us went to visit Chislehurst Caves for Jodi's birthday, and it was great! I found it sort of amazing that there's this [...]

If I look out of my kitchen window in the winter, I can see a funny little tower way off at the edge of the horizon (I can't see it in the summer because of that tree in front the window). It's the only remaining piece of what was once a significant market space, opened [...]

It's not so nice when you sink into foot-deep snowdrifts and constantly get pflumpfed on the head by huge piles of snow falling off the tree branches, mind you. Still, I got a few nice photos, and I knocked an item of this year's Uberlist (more on the Uberlist in another post, maybe, but for [...]