Rear Window (10)
I just love this shot, sent to me by 11 year-old Jake. It is, of course, East Greenwich Pleasaunce, which would make Jake's place somewhere in Chevening or Annandale Roads.
What a fantastic thing to look out on every morning. I remember a few years back when I decided that I really needed to get fit and enthusiastically started a 6.00am exercise regimen in the Pleasaunce. My enthusiasm for the project naturally didn't last very long at all, but one of the only nice things about the whole experience was seeing the park so still and beautiful (and surprisingly populous) at that time of day.
There is something almost magical about the place. Perhaps it's the quirky gravestones; perhaps it's that wonderful combination of the well-loved and the still relatively unknown.
I notice that it's just won a Green Flag award, and rightly so. It's wonderful.
What I really love about this picture is the use of the window as a frame for the subject - with photography like that, I do hope you entered the FoGP's photography competition recently, Jake...
Labels: East Greenwich Pleasaunce, Green Greenwich, Rear Window Greenwich, Secret Greenwich
posted by The Greenwich Phantom at
08:08
2 Comments:
a 6.00am exercise regimen in the Pleasaunce.
That would have been when there were a lot of unofficial keys in circulation, then, and you were one of those holding an unofficial key! The Pleasaunce has not been open (as in unlocked officially by the Council) as early as 6.00am EVAH. Your disguise is slipping, Phantom.
Or did you climb in, like I used to do, until the Council turned it into Stalag Greenwich?
Or .... was this in the olde days when the Council had money for services that benefitted old and young, rich and poor, because they were not writing off squillions of unpaid Council tax, 75 million one year and the next, then 22 million. In the old days, when the Council employed a Park Keeper in the Pleasaunce.
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