Spring is possibly my favourite season; plants are blossoming, birdsong fills the air, and my birthday occurs too. I also did things I never blogged about in spring, with most of them being about places I visited - and Kingston and Richmond get a mention here, albeit briefly; both are boroughs I must discuss next year in more detail.
April
I walked from almost Sutton to almost Morden, and would have written a blogpost about it had I not changed my mind. I would have talked about how Sutton Common isn't a common anymore, but how certain parks remain holdovers from when it did exist. I would have discussed my irritation with dual carriageways and their crossing points. I would have also mentioned that I briefly went to Morden Park and saw the Pyl Brook, before coming up to Morden South station. Indeed, I would have passed two stations on the Sutton loop, so this, combined with everything I described, may surprise you as to why I never talked about it on the blog. There are two main reasons:
- It wasn't particularly all that interesting compared to other places I visited, and I like to stick to a few places at most each month
- I caught the bus for the last stretch up to Morden, so saying I walked almost the whole distance doesn't make for a good premise
I headed over to Morden Hall Park afterwards and had a wonderful time along its footpaths, at last seeing it in springtime as trees started to blossom. Arguably the best blogpost I never wrote.
Also that month I visited Duwich and Penge, but I might write about that area eventually so I won't spoil much. There was also a walk down to Worcester Park, which I started writing about but never completed:
If it wasn't for Epsom residents deciding they didn't want to be in London, Worcester Park would be comfortably distant from Surrey, but as it is, the town is just one road away from being outside London. It's also on the border between Kingston and Sutton, funnily enough, and not too far from Merton, either. And I happened to walk through these borders without even realising it. The actual walk itself wasn't particularly blogworthy, in fact I was hoping to visit a nearby park, so I didn't take all that many photos. Yet I've decided to reconsider - I might be able to squeeze out some interesting titbits of what I saw.
The trip starts outside a garden centre in Morden, not too far from Morden Park. Perhaps it's not the most remarkable place to begin a trip, and that's because the entire journey was unexpected. This place is also known as Lower Morden, and at this point, I would like to refer you to this blogpost. But come back, please.
That blogpost at the end was Three Saxons, which I published over on my second blog -b earlier this year. I don't have anything else to say about Worcester Park, not since Diamond Geezer took a similar walk and had the audacity to claim it was underwhelming. (Maybe I should prove him wrong.)
I revisited the bluebell plot from earlier, with it now being more populated than before, and I carried out a core practical in physics where I spent more time nailing planks than demonstrating oscillations - if you're curious what I did outside of visiting different suburbs.
May
I didn't vote in the elections, but I did go to the local polling station with my parents on the day of the mayoral election.
I later made sure to visit Central London on a rainy Bank Holiday Monday, which I did briefly mention a while back but without including images of Anteros and the double helix sculpture outside the Francis Crick Institute. I spent lots of time wondering why I bothered turning up - one positive was that I got to see a street which me and my friend saw in a photo guessing game.
I also went for a lovely walk from Putney to Barnes, seeing the wonderful Fulham Palace and crossing the roadwork surgeried Hammersmith Bridge in the process, and I too regret not blogging about it. I came by Fulham's stadium, Craven Cottage, with its brick-built Johnny Haynes Stand, the eponymous footballer recognised with a statue.
June
Even whilst doing my A Levels, I had time to go to London Bridge and take various photos as I headed east to Tower Bridge. I have blogged about the latter. I soon got round to throwing away my applied maths notes, and was quite close to getting rid of my pure notes, if not for my teacher convincing me otherwise. I have not used them since.
I saw Beddington Park and the River Wandle - it's a wonderful green open space with various ducks and pondlife, so I got to hone my bird photography skills. I then headed north through the Beddington Farmlands, with this route unsettling me throughout. It's possibly because there was only one footpath, the way out took a while, and I could hear drilling going on in the background. The noise happened to be due to railway repairworks going on at Mitcham Junction, and eventually I made it out, having seen some wonderful views along the way. Diamond Geezer too blogged about Beddington Farmlands before I did, despite my headstart.
Other statues include the Edward VII Memorial on the coast of Brighton, where I had a wonderful few hours on the pebbly coast, as June was coming to a close.
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