kew

she woke in a blue mood, i peeked behind the blind and it was a beautiful morning...

so i suggested she not go to work and instead we go to kew gardens...

which she agreed to,

so we got the bus here to feed the shmoosh... i shaved, finishing the job i'd started yesterday before the recording session... i picked up my camera which has been laying dormant for too long... we ate in the cafe by turnpike lane station then travelled to kew on that little train from highbury...
a train journey i love, passing by all sorts of memories... kensal rise where i lived for years, the view from willesden junction, on the train not quite as nice as from the platform but still lovely (a very different kind of lovely to the lovely of kew a little later)...

got to kew @ 2.30, with just less than 2 hours before it shut, and only 75 minutes before the glass houses were shutting, luckily emivore's science museum volunteers card got her in free... we raced over to the palm house...
basked in that amazing place...

wondered over to the treetop walk...
strolled over to the temperate house...
the sun, having gone behind clouds for much of the afternoon, came out again just as we were walking in the park, down vista's, the sunlight coming in low, lighting up the trunks of the trees... we saw a few green parrots...

it was heaven...

we ate in a much more expensive cafe by kew garden station, then got back on that little train, now full of commuters... i got off @ highbury and braved the rush hour tube north, she stayed on until homerton, where she went to work for a few hours (she's there now)...

loveliness x