KNIGHTMOVES | Tuesday, August 1, 2023

11:20 PM

#KNIGHTMOVES: public chessboards ready to go, even at midnight. Rain has kept away the resident nighthawks. #chess #park #pentax645z

AUTUMN | Thursday, October 20, 2022

12:49 AM

#AUTUMN: #Hamburg is quite beautiful, instead of the many parks we have in London, the entire city is lined with trees. The parkland at #PlantenUnBlomen is particularly well-kept, the Japanese garden only augmenting it rather than being a highlight. The (largest in Germany) open-air ice rink should be coming soon, and then there’s a bit of a fight to turn it back into a giant #rollerskate park from April to September, as the new surface isn’t skate-friendly… #Germany #park #leicapower #summilux

BEFOREANDAFTER | Saturday, November 28, 2020

12:49 PM

#BEFOREANDAFTER: when I studied forest ecology as part of my degree, (by far the most interesting module in that half, as it mainly involved us wandering around Keele’s 600-acre woods) we learned that size kills trees rather than age, as the tree is unable to support itself with food and water, so pruning them like so keeps them healthy. Obviously this has been done properly, trees don’t cut their own hair and neither should you. My mate Kevin had the last word on pruning AFAIK, “just trying to make it look more like a tree”. #forestry #pruning #pollarding #coppicing #park #richmond

HIDEOUT | Saturday, November 28, 2020

12:38 PM

#HIDEOUT: on the posh side of #RichmondPark there is a stretch of ungainly and gangly trees folding themselves into a parkour playground of jumps, runs and shelters like this. #trees #park #richmond

QUEENSROAD | Friday, July 31, 2020

11:23 AM

#QUEENSROAD: my perfect way of enjoying #RichmondPark is with a #bicycle and to stray off the main road whenever possible, partially because the road is most likely place to meet inconsiderate road users, but also because one must explore. We followed this small herd of #deer - safely, with binoculars - down from the woods just past the Dip Pond. #park #lockup #nature #london #richmond #explore #exploremore

Lyon | Saturday, July 18, 2015

9:44 AM

The centre for the recuperation of Floridian turtles. Freakin awesome. Did I mention that this is a public park?? Lions, giraffes, pink flamingos and EVERYTHING! #Lyon #zoo #park #turtles