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Household Cavalry Museum

A trip into London and some time to kill. I decide to visit the Household Cavalry museum off Whitehall. The … More

Horse Guards Parade, Household Cavalry, Household Cavalry Museum

Highgate Cemetery (3)

Continuing our walk around the Eastern Cemetery at Highgate. Douglas Adams (1952-2001) writer – Author of ‘Hitchikers guide to the … More

Douglas Adams, Highgate Cemetery, Malcolm McClaren

Highgate Cemetery (2)

In our walk around the Eastern cemetery we found some amazing monuments. One of the first you see on entering … More

Anna Mahler, Highgate Cemetery, Karl Marx, Thomas Pocklington

Highgate Cemetery (1)

A few weeks ago Keith and I visited Highgate Cemetery. This is perhaps the most famous cemetery in the UK, … More

Highgate Cemetery

Naturelog: Wednesday 16th April

A lovely sunny afternoon so went off to Sutcliffe Park LNR to look for Butterflies and perhaps some early Dragonflies … More

Eltham, Sutcliffe Park LNR

Turner and the Sea

Today I went to see the Turner and the Sea exhibition at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich. I am … More

Fighting Temeraire, JMW Turner, national maritime museum, Turner

Naturelog: Thursday 20th March

Decided to visit some of my local sites on the River Thames to see if there was any sign of … More

Canada Goose, East India Dock, Eurasian Coot, Greenwich Ecology Park, Tufted Duck

Bittern

Here are a couple of pictures of a Bittern taken at London Wetlands centre (6 miles from the City centre) … More

Bittern, Eurasian Bittern, London Wetland Centre

Naturelog: Thursday 16th January

The break in the stormy weather was holding and so I decided to go and visit some small sites that … More

Brookmill Park, East India Dock, Great Bartlett Woods, Mandarin Duck, Robin

Naturelog: Thursday 12th December

In the mid-afternoon went to Wetland centre at Barn Elms for a couple of hours in the hope of a … More

London Wetland Centre

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