Alexandra Palace Park and Lockdown - Day Four

Saturday morning I got a message from one of my junior colleagues Elaine asking if I would like to join her walking her dog around Alexandra Palace Park. I nearly bit her arm off, virtually speaking. (While biting off limbs is not part of official advice I am pretty sure it would be frowned upon in current conditions). As the park is only about 40 minutes walk from my place I duly set off.

 What the Park does offer from by the road up at the Palace is great views across the city.

While I don't often go here on a Saturday afternoon, the place did seem very busy. It is an odd site, preserved really as a green space as it is on a sufficiently steep slope to make it tricky to build on. The Palace sitting on top was obviously a great spot to put a mast on so no surprise really that it was where the first BBC TV pictures were distributed from. But its topography also makes it a good place to get some exercise.

Elaine was a little late for the simple reason that she had driven over and assumed parking would be easy because of the ample car parks. Ample, but closed!

Anyway, it felt just wonderful to get out and chat with Elaine (below) at a decent distance apart at all times. I am so missing just being with people. Already! (I might add that this was all before the official lockdown started. I took the social distancing recommendations to heart and describe that s lockdown. If people had taken it more seriously then maybe we wouldn't need to go to such stringent measures as have now been announced.)

And Elaine is utterly delightful company. Will definitely have her and her husband over for dinner sometime, assuming we survive the plague...

Elaine's Pomeranaian got admiring glances from other walkers (and several other dogs!)

Well I so enjoyed our couple of hours walking together and chatting about this and that. Made me feel so much happier.

On walk home I passed this granite trough filled with Spring flowers.

And got home to my own flowers.

Have set up my own "office" at home on the dining room table.

At least it has a view out into the garden and lets in light. 

I have also spent a couple of afternoons weeding. Never thought I would enjoy weeding, but I even stopped doing it so I would have some more to do the next day. Sad times indeed!