Today: Purple flowers, blue wall, 60a Mount Pleasant: Purple flowers, Mount Pleasant: concrete floor patterns, Suffolk Sq.
Purples are catching my eye. A chilly day delivering with lots of walking inside. I manage a record 5,800 steps between 12:00 and 13:00. The weekends sunshine has been replaced with grey cloud.
Today: Honeysuckle, Trory Street: Fox gloves, Allens Lane: Ferns, Passageway between Allens Lane and Eagle Walk. Delivery collage
Noticing plants connected to my childhood today, when I was young I had a bedroom with a honeysuckle outside. The room was on the ground floor of the house and everyone else slept upstairs. At night, in the wind, the honeysuckle would tap on my window and my imagination would run wild. So for me the honeysuckle has sinister gothic overtones. Likewise the Fox glove, the heart stopper. My Dad love telling us about how poisonous this flower. Finally ferns, which were an endless feature of the Welsh countryside where we walked. Again a plant that inspired storytelling from my Dad – an ancient plant.
Highlight of the day was seeing a family of Montjack deer walk across the drive I turned down in Newmarket Road. Too quick for me to capture a photo – hoorah for the relative stillness of plants.
Today: Church Avenue: colourful berries, Lime tree rd: Pink flowers, Ipswich road.
A cooler overcast day, quieter after the bank holiday. Mysterious ladder encountered in Suffolk Square. Finished in time.
Today: I now see these amazing bushes all over the walk, this large one in Ampthill Street looked particularly sublime in the early morning sun: Foliage patterns: Shadows in Eagle Walk.
We got out on delivery early, finishing in time to catch a much desired cooling ice cream at the Van on Mousehold heath, as we headed back to the delivery office. The Ice cream seller commented “here for your once a year ice cream”. Slightly unnerving since we had indeed only stopped for ice cream once the previous year. I think this was because it became too hot and the van often wasn’t there. Hard to imagine it being too hot in the UK for an ice cream van but it was !!
Today: Rose in Hanover road: Holly flowers, Newmarket Rd: Flowers
Working with Elliot, Kelly having a day off. Rested after my day off, I seem to be noticing all the spikey flowers and excited by seeing the Holly bush flowering.
Today: Spiral staircase in Suffolk Sq: Mr Bedwell’s magnificent pink rhododendron plant: Top of brick wall, Ipswich grove.
A happy Tuesday delivering, not too hot and sunny but dry.
Today: Spotting Onion flowers throughout the walk, also these intense small blue flowers, which have self seeded everywhere.
Not too much mail today, but still a double delivery of mail on 206, since it didn’t go out on Saturday and a struggle to get done in time. Starting to feel more familiar with the new frame and delivery area.
Still not clear how we are ever going to be able to complete the whole delivery.
Chillier than imagined, there was a brisk and fresh wind and not as many sunny intervals as perhaps we would like.
Struggling to stay positive.
Today: Noticing lots of tiny whitish blossoming plants.
Another large day, tensions high in the office. Sorting from my new larger frame. Glad to get out of the office and crack on with the walking and delivering.
Today: These violently pink flowers catch my attention again at the Cedars: I stop to admire a close hand view of this flowerhead as I take a naughty cut through back to Lime tree Road: Sweet Chestnut blossom, top of Ipswich Rd: Photo Montage based on Suffolk sq.
A monumentally big day, good delivery weather but exhausted by the finish of the day. 18.5 km clocked up. Tomorrow I will be moving onto a different frame !! All new roads added to the walk.
Ginny Bain 