Travelling On

Cheery_Daff

Ooh, lots of adventures! I love an old walled garden too, must see if there are any near here I haven't seen :j

badmemory

Why is it that a walled garden feels so peaceful (not even sure that is the word I need)? An ordinary garden never feels like that. I used to work at a house with one & there was nothing that could reduce stress levels quicker. It had beautiful non-walled gardens but they just didn't do it - only the walled garden.

Cheery_Daff

Maybe it's the sense of being enclosed, in a separate little world? Or maybe it's something as simple as a reduction in the wind levels!

Karmacat

Yep, its the sense of it being enclosed for me - and how good gardeners could use it - I heard recently that the placement of a tree, a plum tree for example could affect ripening time by up to six weeks (southern facing vs northern facing near shadow) I love that kind of very natural intervention.

Nothing natural about today, however :rotfl:caught my bus to Sloane Square, walked covetously through the haberdashery department at JL (knitting needles made from honey maple, anyone?) and their bureau de change *was* open: I took £517 in 3 currencies when I went on the cruise, and I just received £393 back, which means I spent £124. I had quite a few purchases on cards, as greenbee mentioned, everything from metro tickets to the single meal we ate in a restaurant maybe the same again. One day soon, I'll work it out exactly :rotfl: but in general, I'm really pleased.

Then I managed to get to the "arts and crafts church" very William Morris-inspired. The website's being renovated, so I won't link to it, but it was very unusual, including the stained glass, very lovely.


And that was all really, because I was faffing around so much this morning. All good though. I might well be able to get out much earlier tomorrow :j

greenbee

If you’re in William Morris mode, there’s an exhibition of Pre-Raphaelite Women Artists on at the National Portrait Gallery. We went on Sunday to show my nephew his 5xgreat grandmother’s paintings (and there were photos of her brother and husband too, as they were also artists). It was fascinating looking at it with a 9 year old and seeing what caught his attention - he asked lots of intersting questions too. We didn’t see an other children there.

wishingthemortgaheaway

We took Pickle (3.5) to the national gallery in October.
We specifically went for the children's storytelling session- story teller tells the story of a painting. This was excellent. But, we also looked round. Pickle loved all the ones with animals in and wanted all of the descriptions reading to him. We will take him back.

Karmacat

Wow, kudos to all for getting the kids in early to the things they find enjoyable that's really, really positive.

I'm not on my travels today, I have domestic tasks:
- phone sister
- wash hair
- one cycle of the washing machine
- get all the used cat litter into the bin, and air the place.
- email friend I'm meeting tomorrow in Brixton.
- check out Horticultural Society email for dates next year and respond.
- get all my stuff put away or upstairs, as the cleaner's coming tomorrow :eek:

Karmacat

Not bad! I didn't do the faffing about with the Horticultural Society dates, and I don't have enough of a load for the washing machine, but everything else done. I'll put my alarm on tomorrow so that I'm finished in the kitchen when the cleaner arrives, then I'll be off out, coffeeing and culturing

Cheery_Daff

Hope you've had fun coffee-ing and culturing! :j

Karmacat

Thanks Cheery! In fact, I had so much fun coffee-ing, it was a bit too late to get to the place where I wanted to go culturing :rotfl: so I got back here quite a bit earlier than scheduled. I may be having a Netflix binge


Only the busfare spent, contactless one way. Friend bought the coffee, which I'll do next time.