Attention mudlarks and other foreshore walkers. (This is Putney.)

And then she was 8 💕

This derelict jetty in East Greenwich has been reanimated by a lush carpet of mosses and stonecrops thanks to Groundwork London 🌿 A great example of what can be done on the Thames with a little knowledge & imagination 🌿

What a wonderful concert tonight of 17th-18th-century music at the Old Royal Naval College Chapel in Greenwich Old Royal Naval College 🎶 Lucy Slater

Ladybird, ladybird, fly away home! 🐞

Today I led a lovely group of American students around Rotherhithe, exploring topics as diverse as sewers, stench pipes, ship breaking, defenestration, slag heaps, mudlarks & (of course) the Pilgrim Fathers. The highlight though was the appearance of a heron in Russia Dock Woods

The Shoreditch megalith 🪨 ✨

Just up from a 20th-century dump on the Thames foreshore: a complete 1930s art deco Brylcreem bottle 💈

Marathon day, when the world comes to (well, through) Rotherhithe 🏃‍♂️ #londonmarathon2024 bravo The Brunel Pub 🍻 🎤

I was sad to see the ‘Maybe it’s because I’m a Londoner’ mural on Bolina Road, South Bermondsey has been painted over.

The photo of me is from 2021 (by Akiko DuPont), the other one taken today.

Red Bascule bridge opens up for incoming traffic #Rotherhithe #SE16

Evie and Martha exploring the material culture of the Rotherhithe foreshore for the latter’s geography homework 🧱

Lubetkin’s Modernist classic, the penguin pool at London Zoo (1934), looking very Hockneyesque in today’s glorious spring sunshine 🌞 🐧

Etymology of the day is ‘bumf’: a shortening of ‘bumfodder’, 19th-century slang for toilet paper. It was later applied to any throwaway material or paperwork.