Looking towards Wandsworth Bridge from Wandsworth Park, one of the loveliest little parks in London. It now has an impressive new Putting green modelled, by the looks of it, on the Ryoan-ji zen gardens in Kyoto, what a great combination! I can't wait to try it out. This is crazy golf with more than a touch of Middleclass aspiration - no open mouthed clowns or mini windmills here. What next - fun-fairs with artisanal Sardinian cheeses as prizes instead of goldfish in plastic bags?
I was glad to see lots of cormorants lazing around on the silt barges, as ever.
Wandsworth is still hellish to cycle through, I got off and walked both times, as the one-way system is ridiculous, even for hardened cyclists.
I always enjoy the last section of the journey back from the Deep South west - whizzing along Furzedown Road and then down into St Reatham. When I used to come home this way from jobs in Putney and Wimbledon a few years ago, round the back of tooting common was a guaranteed place to see foxes larking around in the dark, it's the secret part of Tooting Common a lot of people don't know about. IPhone maps don't reveal the thick woodland behind the Athletics track, they make it look like more boring grey swathes of housing, when you look at it on the satellite setting the area looks as if it's been invaded by giant Brussel sprouts...you'd have thought that would make the front page of the Streatham and Tooting Gazette.
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