Garden 3: Pretty Much Finished

Martin and Sam finished a few days ago (just some fixing to do from next-door's side.  Not bad!!
And the frogspawn seems to have survived unscathed.

Ollivander's in Tooting

I'm sure everyone who has read the Harry Potter stories or seen the films remembers Mr Ollivander's wand shop in Diagon Alley.  The many long boxes containing all sorts of wands, waiting for the right person to enter.

Well if you head for Jane's Trains model railway shop in Tooting, just by Tooting railway station, you will find something very similar.  Along much of the right-hand wall as you enter are long boxes, stacked higgledy-piggledy just like the wand cases in Ollivander's.  Only these boxes contains engines, coaches, trucks, track and other accessories for the aspiring or experienced modeller.

And unlike a wand and a wizard, I don't *believe* the model chooses the modeller. 

I might be wrong, though.

Dulwich Picture Gallery Gardens

So last weekend we went to Dulwich Picture Gallery to see the exhibition of British Surrealists (good, if small and a little expensive).  It was a sunny morning, so we wandered around the gardens afterwards.

Venus over Nunhead

The Moon and Venus looking down on Nunhead Lane a few nights ago.  Smudged as taken with a smartphone.

Garden 2: Work in Progress

The frogs spawned since the last post, so we needed a bucket to protect the glutinous tapioca.

... and then the garden was razed. 

42 Years

42 years ago yesterday, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was broadcast for the first time.  On Radio 4.  I was at University, and listened to it, I think, with Ken Brown and Andy Crook in Andy's room. 

Pretty damn good.

So, anyway, last night Radio 4 Extra played the first series, with some bonus programmes.  I couldn't listen to it.  But, of course, it is still there on Sounds.

Listening now...

Garden 1

This is going to get sorted out.  But here is the starting position....
The fence blew down well before the storms, and the ivy over the frog pond is pulling down another fence panel.