Tag: England
Day 5: London’s Leafy Cemeteries Offer Peace And Quiet
Saturday. The time of week where my partner and I usually go on a long walk to detach our brains from work. But today we felt slightly conflicted.
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Day 4: Let’s Give Ourselves Credit For Our Ability To Adapt
Today marked the end of the first week of my whole company working remotely. Initially it felt like it would be a big upheaval but the reality was quite different.
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Day 3: What Does The Great Outdoors Mean To You?
With all the talk of boundaries, bans and social distancing I’m starting to view the outdoors in the most literal sense of the word: Just being outside.
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Day 2: Choose Your Screensaver To Create Calm
It was dreary today. I didn’t make it outside for a proper walk and the promise of yesterday’s spring seemed very distant all of a sudden.
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Day 1: Spring Has Arrived In Ladywell Fields, London
So here it is. Day one of social distancing.
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London’s Shortest Season: Green Spaces In The East
Better late than never. It seems that proper summer, as opposed to ‘that warm week we always get in May’ has finally hit England’s capital. Temperatures have inched over 25 for the first time this year, and the infamous Central Line has inevitably become a sauna.
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Abney Park Cemetery, London
At the edge of London’s Zone 2 there’s a wilderness. The constant hum of traffic is replaced by nesting birds, damp ground underfoot and a thick canopy that drops dappled shadows onto the pale faces of long-forgotten gravestones.
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Walking Through 500 Years At Hampton Court Palace
“Of all losses, time is the most irrecuperable for it can never be redeemed.” (Henry VIII of England)
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