I like to walk as often as I can and as I wanted a fairly quick walk yesterday I decided to take you with me around my immediate neighbourhood.
I invite you to show me around your immediate neighbourhood if you have the time.
It is fun to see where others live.
Yesterday it was cold and the weather was very changeable as you will see from the photos.
My hands got so cold when I took my gloves off that it was not easy to use my camera
We are turning right out of my front door here
Then left at the top of the roadMy area is a mixture of bungalows and houses
Detached, semi-detached and terraced
We walk about 50 yards and turn right into the park.JPG)
The buildings that we see on the horizon behind the tall block of flatsare part of Canary Wharf in East London
We are looking here a little to the left and can see
the rolling countryside of Kent on the other side of The Thames
On the horizon is Hainault Forest and the golf course
The park is deserted, schools back and folk are at work
We are leaving by a different gate
A vandalised telephone box blights the scene
Across the road and down the hill
As we continue down the hill you can see the town on the horizon
And the gasometers - not pretty but necessary
We have turned round now and are nearly home
We will turn right at the top of this hill
We are looking here a little to the left and can seethe rolling countryside of Kent on the other side of The Thames
On the horizon is Hainault Forest and the golf courseThe park is deserted, schools back and folk are at work
We are leaving by a different gate
A vandalised telephone box blights the scene
Across the road and down the hill
As we continue down the hill you can see the town on the horizon
And the gasometers - not pretty but necessary
We have turned round now and are nearly home
We will turn right at the top of this hillthe sky is brighter than on the way down
And we are back home
Time for coffee
And we are back homeTime for coffee
15 comments:
I loved walking in your neighborhood with you! Thank you! I will try and do this sometime soon!
What a beautiful neighborhood. Kind of how I pictured it. Nice to have a park nearby. I see that the vandals are in England as well. I noticed the roundabout intersection. I think the English are smarter than the Americans, because every time I go through a roundabout near where I live (which is not very often, because we don't have many) people don't know what to do and almost crash into each other.
Well, that was a nice bit of ambling from Ramblings! Thank you for taking us on a walk with you. How great that you have a park nearby, and those East London docks look pretty close too. In the 4th shot, I noticed some straight, stick like objects pointing up into the sky - is that the Centennial Dome, or whatever it is called?
We have a roundabout in my city, it's called the Pacific Coast Highway traffic circle. It's very large with a parklike area in the center (no one dares go there, of course, across all those lanes of swiftly moving cars trying not to run into each other!
I like your idea of a walk through the neighborhood. My neighborhood does not have such lovely thinks to look at, but perhaps I can come up with something!
Barbara, thank you for sharing that lovely poem you wrote when your beloved Sandy died. I love the first two lines of the second stanza. On another note, my neighborhood is quite mundane compared with yours. Thank you for the tour.
That was a lovely jaunt around the neighborhood. I am surprised to see such great stretches of countryside, with the city encroaching in the back ground. We have a lot of urban sprawl around here.
Thanks for the tour!
Barbara,
Thanks for the tour of your neighborhood....Names of places I read about in books....Thames, Kent, etc......
My neighborhood is mostly green pasture with healthy cattle grazing.....trees.....Betty
I enjoyed our walk. You are quite close to the countryside there in northeast London. Can I come live in your neighborhood? In Los Angeles, we had so so much graffiti-it was everywhere--so I am thankful to be living in a smaller town now.
About how far is the walk?
loved this. a walk round your world. Thank you! my camera is sadly b-r-o-k-e-n but when it is restored, I will do this for my readers too.
enjoy the coffee. have a bit of cake too! x
I love your neighborhood walk tour.
Take me again someday.
I love it..........
Blessings!
I have just found your blog and I really like it, I will come back soon!
Thank you for the walk round your neighborhood, I like England and english gardening so much!
My own blog is in Swedish so I am afraid you can not read it...
/Caroline from Sweden
Thanks for the walk Barbara ~ I feel great after all that exercise! I've been trying to increase my walks after Christmas, when I got rather lazy and hibernated and I noticed yesterday that I feel like I have a lot more energy ~ we all know that exercise is good for us, but sometimes it takes such an effort!
I have done a couple of walks in my neighbourhood over at my blog ~ if you haven't seen them, take a look.
Happy New Year and all the best for 2008.
Marie x
Hi Barbara,
I like to walk too, but haven't in over a week. Shame on me. What a nice idea to take us with you. I did that once, but you've inspired me to do it again. Thanks for sharing,
Laura from Amongst The Oaks
Enjoyed my walk with you and seeing your area.
Susan
What a nice walk that was. I'm ready for the coffee now.
Thank you for this lovely tour, Barbara. I didn't know that you live so close to London...you can even see a part of the town.
Have a nice weekend!
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