Noticing pavement textures, struck by the beautiful Lichen growing on the concrete of Suffolk Square flats.
An overcast start which clears to sunshine, bringing people outside, all exclaiming that hopefully this is summer now on its way.
Finish the walk with just our 15 min break time remaining. Head to the Ice cream factory to buy ice cream to welcome the sunnier weather in. Salted Caramel – my favourite flavour. Day off tomorrow.
Today: Sunlight through leaves, Ipswich grove: Spiky dandelion: Garages Dial House: Digital photo collage.
Working with a new colleague who regaled me with tales from his taxi driving days. I enjoyed the sunshine and the cigarette breaks he took. A sociable days work.
Today: Orange flowers: Irises, Allens Lane: Digital photo collage.
Finally the sun came out to play, Mrs Boyd’s selection of Irises are looking really splendid. Happy that the weeks delivering in over.
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: 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: 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.
Ginny Bain 