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: Irises from Mrs Boyd’s garden, a whole range of sumptuous purples.
Still cold out delivering and no sunshine, returned to wearing a vest and so stayed snuggly.
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: Gloriously sunny day, all looks splendid. Just slightly cooler than it looks with a stiff cooling breeze.
Happy to get all delivered, picked up pizza on the way home. Out to hear the BBC singers in the evening – fantastic concert.
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: Suffolk square: Puddle reflection, Walpole gardens: Blooms, Lime tree road.
Well, it didn’t rain.
Disquiet in the delivery office around the careless changing of the sorting frames, in which the walks have not been set out as you would deliver them and the majority of slots have become doubled (two delivery addresses per slot) Hard to stay engaged in giving your best when there is no engagement with you as the person who does the delivery around how the frame should/could be efficiently organised. Most slots are currently too small for the quantity of mail we currently handle.
Today: Puddle reflection, Walpole gardens: Foliage, Harford Manor Road: New leaf growth at the base of a horse chestnut tree, Church Avenue.
Three days worth of walk 206 to deliver, a big walking day. All suddenly looks green, things starting to be hidden and obscured by the foliage. Enjoy the irrepressibility of nature which is shooting green at every opportunity. Feels like you ought to be able to see the growth happening with your naked eye, if you had the patience.
A damp but warm hug of a day, all is moist.
Today: Insect trails on a letterbox in Newmarket Road: Trees, Newmarket Road: Orange, Lime tree road: Delivery Montage featuring Suffolk Square.
A rather enjoyable day, we are finally starting to get a hold on the new delivery area and in how to tackle this larger delivery area. Delivering a multitude of internet hubs, apparently needing replacing due to a lightening strike.
Warm and humid, very comfortable for delivering in. No rain and the sun peaked its head out regularly to cheer us. A mountain of door to door mail to throw off and deliver (5 pieces) all happily in the frame by the end of today.
Ginny Bain 