On Tuesday morning we drove to London- via, as you can see, the North Circular road. At one point on the North Circular - travelling West, you get a wonderful view of Wembley Stadium. I usually manage to miss it, but on Monday morning snapped it through the windscreen, as above. Drove to daughter Lizzie's, parked on her spare parking space (just off Chiswick High Street) picked up grandson Matt and caught 'bus to Sotheby's where we viewed their Arms and Armour Sale. This afternoon caught bus back to the said sale and bid. Only bought one lot, but it was the one I wanted. Drove home this evening, so we're both a little fatigued. Ann's just gone up to bed, and I'm about to follow her excellent example. Good Night All.
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A17c blunderbuss is often useful on the 73a to Chiseick!
We have driven that route on our way to and from the digs of Sir Bruin's youngest son, currently in Ealing. I remember driving over a fly-over and as you come down the other side, all of a sudden, there is Wembley. There's nowt else to see when you travel that way into London.
Hello Rog. Yes, on that sort of trip highwaymen have always to be looked out for.
Quite agree Liz. It's the one thing worth looking at on quite a long stretch of the A406.
Except perhaps the occasional unexpected garden along that road that's full of colour. Their roses are a week or so ahead of ours. I suppose because of the eighty miles further south that London is. And perhaps because, being a large city the gardens are more sheltered than ours (?)
There may be something in the fact that the roses are ahead of yours due to being further south. According to QI (that great and informative programme hosted by Stephen Fry) spring takes about eight weeks to travel from Land's End to John O' Groats. I haven't done the maths, but a week sounds about right for 80 miles.
Hello Steve. That's reassuring! At school I never was any good at maths, but it sounds as if I finally got a sum about right.
Just reading that makes me exhausted.
Well done on successful bidding.
Hello Pat. Thanks. I know what you mean, and I wouldn't want to do it every week. Just proving something to meself I think.
P.s. But Ann did all the driving, and says she enjoyed it.
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