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It’s a damp and dull day but we set out bravely, first calling at…

…Myddelton’s deli, where we had our usual coffee.

On the way round Myddelton Square, we spotted the two cats. Tigger photographed this one.

Afterwards, we walked up to the main road and caught a number 30 bus.

This brought us to Euston Station where we are to meet a friend.

We visited Captain Matthew Flinders and his cat and…

…retired to Caffè Nero to await our friend.

We took the tube to Colliers Wood.

We left the tube at Colliers Wood and took to the streets. Unexpectedly, the sun broke through the clouds.

We passed this rather fine Arts Crafts-style school, dating from 1897.

This is Christ Church Colliers Wood, built in 1874.

The local scene is dominated by electricity pylons though why they are needed I do not know.

We visited a store called Dunelm that specialises in products for the home. We had a good look around but didn’t buy anything.

At least there was a cafe where we stopped for tea and biscuits.

After tea, we set out again, crossing the Wandle river on the way.

We then boarded a bus to Wimbledon.

As it was becoming late, we looked around for somewhere to have lunch. Rather than hunt around, we chose Patisserie Valérie which was nearby.

We left the restaurant and walked in the street to find a bus to our next destination.

We boarded a number 93 for Putney Bridge.

We left the bus near Putney Bridge and walked across the bridge.

The bridge itself is not very beautiful but does provide fine views of the Thames. The sun had disappeared again and the weather was dull and cloudy.

We saw a number of cormorants, including one fishing, and spotted this one holding his wings out to dry in the cormorant manner.

We photograph these almshouses, originally founded in the 17th century but rebuilt in 1869.

This pre-prep school in Fulham High Street was built in the 1890s and still operates as a school.

I was glad when we boarded a number 14 bus for Russell Square.

The roads were crowded with traffic and progress painfully slow, making an already long journey even longer and more tedious. We reached Russell Square at last and from there walked to Euston Station.

At Euston, we caught a number 30 bus to the Angel. It was already pretty full but we found seats at the back. I was very glad when we reached our stop and could make the short walk to home.

If I have to chose a highlight of the day, it was seeing the cormorants on the Thames, fishing, flying and drying wings. They are fascinating birds.

Posted in SilverTiger | Leave a comment Connection restored Posted on October 15, 2021 by SilverTiger

(For the context of this post, see this and previous posts.)

I didn’t mention it in the previous posts but this afternoon, while I was at home alone, the landline phone (which we normally never use and only have for our broadband connection) rang briefly. Intrigued, I went to look and, on trying it, found that the phone could neither make or receive calls. This suggested to me that someone somewhere was working on our phone line.

When we returned from our pizza supper, I tried the phone again and found it working perfectly. I then checked the router but it was still showing a red light and my iPhone was still reporting “No Internet Connection”.

We had just settled down for the evening when my mobile rang. It was someone at Zen. He told me that (as I had guessed) an engineer had performed the necessary work at the exchange and that our Internet connection should now be working. I pointed out that the router was showing a red light but I fired up the PC to try the connection. I was not surprised when it didn’t work.

Now followed a session of going through the router’s settings and checking what the lights were doing at various points. I had done this so often on Tuesday and had all the usernames and passwords written down on my notebook that the work proceeded easily and quickly. The first attempt ended in failure but a second attempt, plus pressing a particular button in the router at the right moment followed and… bingo! We have lift-off!

Yes, our Internet connection is working again. This evening, we were able to “stream” a video using the connection and without resorting to hotspotting from our mobiles. This post also comes to you via that Internet connection.

As you might have read in my previous posts, I was not expecting the problem to be solved so soon but I am happy to be proved wrong.

Posted in SilverTiger | Leave a comment Tyger, tyger… Posted on October 15, 2021 by SilverTiger

We went out this evening for a pizza supper and afterwards went to have a look at the Bloomsbury Festival that was taking place nearby.

Today is the first day of the festival (it runs from October 15th to 24th) and we arrived too early because they were still setting up the displays. I did, however, photograph this neon-art tiger, blazing away merrily above a welcome sign.

Bright and fiery as it was, it reminded me of William Blake’s famous poem, The Tyger:

Tyger Tyger, burning bright,
In the forests of the night;
What immortal hand or eye,
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

See here (and many other sources) for the complete poem.

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