1000 words. Photos on GN.

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Our housemates, and two shots taken on holiday in Antarctica in February this year. The black humps in the foreground are whales, and the junk in the second is actually an amazingly shaped iceberg!

Antarctica? Goodness, how adventurous.

Great photos, and the cats!

We lived just up the road from Battersea power station in the sixties, Ellianne. My how it’s changed round there.

I think riverwalk is up west Greyduster. I'm an East End girl up the rough end of the river!
Nice photos coming on here today.

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Goodness you’re right about Nine Elms, I’ve only been away from London 12 years but it certainly wasn’t Embassy territory then! The walks along the river are what I miss most, my old boy worked near Tower Bridge but we loved other stretches of the Thames too. This one was taken on a visit 3 years ago and the view through the bridge had changed since we left and no doubt will not be the same now. Sorry didn’t intend to bring us back to “bridges”, I went on a meander down Memory Lane there !
Here’s an autumnal one from a walk last weekend, contrasts in colours and textures always appeal to me.

My Uncle and Aunt lived in Tooley Street in a mansion block with a great view of Tower Bridge. DH and I were in London a couple of years ago and visited the area. I didn't recognise any of it. The regeneration is wonderful, but my, how the place has changed.

Grannyqueenie I'm a big fan of bridges, and seaside piers, so always up for talk on either!

Ellianne, no such thing as the rough end of the river these days, when ex-council flats in The Borough go for half a million.

Minimoon I know Tooley Street very well indeed and you’re rights beyond recognition.! When my old boy 1st worked there in the mid 70s it was alleged to be “on the up”...well it took a while... but by the time we left London it had a completely different vibe and has moved up a notch or 2 since then!
Spot on Riverwalk!

The unique thing about London is the way old and new sit perfectly side by side. I'm sure I took a photo somewhere (off to look now).
Hey, is that juxtaposition again?

Found it!
On my way to go up the Walkie Talkie if you can see it behind the old buildings.

That iceberg looks treacherous MiniMoon.

I used to walk past the American Embassy often when I worked in the West End. A very imposing facade. The new one looks a bit unprepossessing by comparison.

Took this shot of the moon this evening. Not very often my camera plays ball with night shots.

Be a good idea if I posted it, eh?

Spooky moon. Looks like a snowball with a face.

DH said it looked like a face, too.

Greyduster

I used to walk past the American Embassy often when I worked in the West End. A very imposing facade. The new one looks a bit unprepossessing by comparison.

Took this shot of the moon this evening. Not very often my camera plays ball with night shots.

Throughout this summer I was working in Grosvenor Square.

The former embassy site is now a huge construction site - they are supposedly keeping the outer facade as it's Listed.

It's now owned by the Qatar sovereign fund and will be a mixture of hotel, shopping and entertainment.

My university halls were almost next to the Ambassador's sumptuous house in Regent's Park. I could never understand why they went and built the London Mosque right next door.
Another juxtaposition!

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I'm not quite sure what I'm trying to do here, but I tried to take an evening shot tonight of an earlier daytime shot for fun!

Italian peaches! From a market in Venice a couple of years ago.
I wont ask you what they look like!
Apart from delicious

Don't we call them doughnut peaches? Lovely colours there.
They always remind me of the Renault Mégane advert (shakin' that arse).

I havent heard of that before Ellianne

I dont eat them in this country as they just cant compare

That evening photo is lovely Ellianne

Elliane ?

I see you baby!

The old American embassy was a fantastic building ( am sure it was still there a couple of years ago..?) a lovely white building that you can see from Regents Park?