Tea

On Wednesday evening a friend told me that a TV company was laying out a load of tea in trafalgar square, to show how much tea was drunk by an average person. I only drink one cup a day, so it wouldn't be as impressive if I was average.

The next morning I had completely forgotten about it, until I cycled through trafalgar square, and saw all this tea (see above). I got off my bike and wandered round, many other commuters had stopped to look, it was quite amazing. When I got to work I couldnt stop talking about it, and when I was on my way home I saw the volunteers packing it away.

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Peace Pagoda, Battersea park

I recently decided to change my route to work. I wanted to cycle further in order to loose the insulation from around my waist, it has never been an attribute I was proud of.

On my first outing I got to Chelsea Bridge quite tired, I had already covered four miles more than my normal trip, so I cycled gently and enjoyed the weather and scenery. As I was cycling opposite a park I saw the structure in the photograph. I had never seen it before and wondered what it was.

Later at work I traced my route on a map and looked up the park, it was Battersea park. I spent my lunch hour searching the internet and found that the structure was the Peace Pagoda. With a bit more research I discovered it was the only structure dedicated solely to peace in Great Britain at the time of building, 1985. I was amzed that it was also given permission as the last legislative act of the Greater London Council (GLC) which at that time was run by Ken Livingstone, now the Mayor of London. The GLC was closed by Margaret Thatcher who felt that the work done would be better achieved by the local councils, many believe the real reason was to quash the only body that was giving the government a decent opposition.

I returned to Chelsea Embankment the friday after and took this picture.