01 May 2021
I didn't get to all the little leftover streets around the northeastern part of my area in today's wander, but I definitely knocked a few off the list, plus Lisa and I enjoyed the walk, and didn't get rained on too badly. We spotted the hotting-up of Wisteria season, checked out Birdcage Walk (both old and new), ventured onto the wrong side of the tracks1 and generally enjoyed the architecture.
1 Well, technically we probably shouldn't have been on the grounds of those retirement flats, but nobody started chasing us around the garden with a Zimmer frame
...was too hard to snap. Friendly, but like many cats, camera-shy. Or at least never in the right place or keeping still.
I've walked above these tracks many a time, but I've never been down on this level on this side of them—the other side is the pub next to the station, where I've been quite a few times...
Aforementioned pub. I've also visited in its former incarnation, Roo Bar, when it had an Australian theme.
These feel like retirement flats, so I guess the swing might be for younger visitors...
Alma Court, this time from my normal viewpoint, above the railway tracks on St John's Road.