But despite the kids from hell - or rather the childminders from hell - we managed to get something out of our visit to Streatham Common.
I am still getting used to my new camera; also I knew straightaway that the light was never going to do me favours (both are just excuses!)
I love it when in the middle of somewhere built up you get a brief glimpse of something that could theoretically be somewhere completely different - this brief stretch of Streatham Common North could easily be in the country
This is me in the Rookery
This is a cherry tree (or so it said on the label!)
This is a bit of a view of the terraced garden, cunningly taken to disguise the skyscrapers of Croydon otherwise visible on the horizon through the blue haze
And this is the bottom end of a fallen tree which has been left to rot away
