Pics from your State Sanctioned Exercise.

[quimcunx]

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[Leafster]

I had a longer walk this afternoon to make up for walking less throughout most of the week. Walked about 8 miles today but more significantly, according to my phone I've climbed the equivalent of 87 flights of stairs. No wonder my feet and ankles ache!





Yes, it's that windy on the top of the North Downs...







Back on the long drive to the local school I walked towards in an earlier walk. I got sidetracked last time so didn't walk along this stretch before...





Finally made it to the school grounds...



Wild Garlic...

 

[Leafster]

Last week I took photos from the North Downs looking towards London, this week I'm looking south over the Weald and I'm led to believe the very thin strip of hills on the horizon are the South Downs.










This a bit difficult to see but it's a bat roost in a cave BUT because of a few pesky humans it's had to be all but blocked up. The bats can get in but humans can't.









Early evening sun...

 

[chainsawjob]

Love the horse chestnut blossom Leafster

 

[chainsawjob]

They were quite sentimental about their beasts! The plaque reminds me of communist language about a heavenly promised state/land (glorious heaven, happy lands)

 

[existentialist]

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Beautiful. I wish I lived somewhere like...oh!

 

[Leafster]

Love the horse chestnut blossom Leafster

Thanks! They are at various stages of opening around here. I love the way the trees look with all the blossom but they are one of the plants which trigger my mild hay fever.

 

[marty21]

Walked 9 miles this morning (as I have a day off) .This is the edge of a squat #oldschool Walthamstow street art .Sales of blue netting hit new peak in Waltham Forest. (Coppermill Fields.)

 

[yield]

How are you finding it on canalside Marty? Wanted to have another walk down the Grand Union but with the joggers and cyclists there isn't enough room?

 

[Clair De Lune]

"A new social type was being created by the apartment building, a cool, unemotional personality impervious to the psychological pressures of high-rise life, with minimal needs for privacy, who thrived like an advanced species of machine in the neutral atmosphere. This was the sort of resident who was content to do nothing but sit in his over-priced apartment, watch television with the sound turned down, and wait for his neighbours to make a mistake." J G Ballard - High- rise.

 

[marty21]

How are you finding it on canalside Marty? Wanted to have another walk down the Grand Union but with the joggers and cyclists there isn't enough room?

It's ok early morning , but by the afternoon it is troublesome ,so most days I go out in the morning.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

A couple in and around the Head and one of the concrete jungle where I work

 

[Clair De Lune]

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[Clair De Lune]

 

[weepiper]

 

[Ranbay]

 

[Clair De Lune]

Picked up my meds through the newly installed cat flap at my doctors

 

[Leafster]

Picked up my meds through the newly installed cat flap at my doctors View attachment 209321

That doorbell looks as though it could do with a good clean!

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Organic banana cotton is available. (Fabric shops on Goldhawk Road.)

 

[Clair De Lune]

That doorbell looks as though it could do with a good clean!

I thought the same

 

[ginger_syn]

 

[ginger_syn]

 

[Boru]

More walking scenes...

 

[Marty1]

 

[neonwilderness]

 

[neonwilderness]

 

[neonwilderness]

And one shot from my proper camera too

 

[chainsawjob]

Joe Wickes this morning (yes he's wearing a suit) - & it was the most bastard hard workout yet.

I dug a hole, well a trench for potatoes.

 

[marty21]

Bit rainy this morning .Rail bridge over Walthamstow Marshes .Plaque on same bridge. More blue netting on picnic benches .The honest folk of Waltham Forest do not care for the blue netting.

 

[Ground Elder]

Had a look at my freshly renovated pond before setting out, which appears to be working



Bottom of the road



Bus shelter



Wonderland warning




Twenty five years since I was last up here






Many years ago, a friend had an allotment in here - my daughters used to think it was the Secret Garden



Since the border with England was closed loads of flags have been appearing on the estate