Up & out & about

A Monday morning sunrise -

Seeing off a friend at the train station, and then a little walk...

Treasure maps drawn by the kids at Drayton Park school -

It was this "home as cosmos" that caught my imagination;
eventually I realised that the assignment was to put certain items
into the treasure map. Rain has seeped in, enhancing the effect

 Sunlight through the cistus, approaching Highbury Fields ...

Diversion to Holloway Road in search of coffee and croissant.

"Custom latex"

 The pub opens at 4 -

Refuelled, albeit with horrible coffee. Round the corner to find that a bike park has developed near the station -

 My favourite walk, under the trees -

 The garbage collectors must get to Highbury Fields early -

Down the back roads to discover topiary along Plimsoll Road and Ambler Road -

 And home through the park -

All this before 11am. 

Drawing Tuesday - Whitewebbs Transport Museum

The train to Crew's Hill (north of Enfield) and then a walk past a plethora of garden centres

brought us to the amazing Whitewebbs Museum of Transport, open only on Tuesdays and usually the last Sunday of the month. Once a pumping station, it's run by volunteers and there's a small admission charge.

The four floors of the museum are packed with anything and everything to do with transport, including ice skates, dollies in prams,

an enormous collection of toy buses red and green

motorcycles and bicycles

toy cars

lots of signs from bygone days

some chilling reminders

and strange scenarios

 and, hmm, a fluffy cat in a basket on a rocking chair in the WW2 section -

Now to the drawing.

This caught my eye - all those diagonals -

 Najlaa found an AA badge and a 1930s pram -

 ue discovered that this scooter was nicknamed "little ant" and made by Moto Rumi in 1954; it was meticulously restored before being given to the museum -

 Judith reconstructed the reconstruction of a 1940s "general store" -

 Carol found some automobile necessities -

 Janet K found a 1966 donkey bike - collapsible, with reversible handlebars -

 Extracurricular activities

Judith has been playing with digitally converting photographs to drawings - we were amazed that these were printouts from her ipad -

"Please do not touch"

Outside the Rachel Whiteread exhibition at Tate Britain (till 21 January) are some sculptures she chose, including this 1967 piece by Barry Flanagan. The instruction caught my eye -

... and was repeated here and there within the exhibition ...