A pootle along the river from Greenwich

Despite having lived in Wapping for 7 years, my forays across the river have been limited to Surrey Quays/Canada Water and B&Q on the Old Kent Road, so when @potoft informed me she would be cooking Sunday lunch, I took the opportunity to get out and about and have a walk.
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Wapping weekend wildlife from the window

One of the joys of spending time in the kitchen is perhaps ironically the opportunity to look out of the window. I'm lucky to be able to see a few bushes and trees and a patch of grass. This morning whilst having my breakfast I noticed two rather chubby squirrels chasing each other around one of the trees and their little game continued for a good ten minutes entertaining me and @potoft to the extent that my cup of tea and croissant went cold. I was able to take a couple of photos, but wasn't able to get a photo of both squirrels together, as their game meant they kept to opposite sides of the tree, and were a bit too fast for my lens.

Just in the time I was having my breakfast and then loading the dishwasher I noticed quite a few creatures:

• 2 Squirrels
• 1 Woodpigeon
• 1 Jay
• 1 Chaffinch
• 1 Robin

This set me thinking of all the animals I've seen in Wapping, and most were but a short walk from my front door. My quick list of animals is below, but I'm bound to have missed others and I wonder what others have seen and all within an inner city area.

• Foxes
• Crabs
• Kingfishers
• Mallards
• Peregrine falcons
• Moorhens
• Herring gull
• Various terns and oteher gulls
• Heron
• Greylag geese
• Egyptian geese
• Cormorant
• Moorhen
• Coot

Foggy St Pauls Shadwell

Photo- The Path

A quick stroll around the foggy basin

Reservoir levels - Lee Valley 1987-2012

Part of an on going attempt to improve the quality of my data visualisations on the blog, I'm attempting to come up with slightly more innovation or interesting ways of presenting data graphically. This chart shows the amount of water in the Lee Valley Reservoirs between 1987 and 2012.

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Infographic - Everything you need to know about... David Bowie

Ahead of David Bowie's 25th studio album, I thought it might be a good idea to educate the youngsters about David Bowie and produced this little infographic.

Wapping Music Videos - OMD - Messages

Last Friday lunchtime I was enjoying a crafty pint at the Prospect of Whitby with my housemate @potoft to celebrate my membership of the exclusive '100 Club'. The music changed, and OMD's Enola Gay came on. What followed was a bizarre three minutes and thirty three seconds (less fade out) of what a passerby might mistake as the Pilsbury Doughboy body-popping whilst remaining seated and drinking a pint of real ale. However, I like to ramp up the surrealism by making sure that my song and dance numbers attain a mythic quaity, by not only including 'air keyboard' but also performing them during less appropriate moments, which I think adds a certain aesthetic edge. On this occasion my performance may have coincided with a pair of American tourists saying grace, and I'm not sure if they appreciated my interpretation of Psalm 149 (Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises unto him with the timbrel and harp).

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