Wanstead Winter Wonderland

Off message.  Winter walk started at Joseph Fry memorial in Forest Gate then through centre of Wanstead Flats into Wanstead Park.  Coffee and Cake at the Temple.  Then down to River Roding and along to the City of London cemetery path and back into the Flats, past Golden Fleece Pub and home. 

I loved the local kids building the biggest London Snowman and igloo ever!

Fantastic walk.

Update: I have posted pictures from walk on Facebook here

Anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution and Birthday of Leon Trotsky

I thought I would mark the occasion of the Storming of the Winter Place and the birth of Trotsky by posting this magnificent painting Bolshevik (1920), by Boris Kustodiev.

This day is also somewhat improbably the birthday of someone else.

It is a lovely, sunny autumnal day and since there are no barricades about I am now off for a run (jog) around Wanstead Flats and Wanstead Park.