Today is the warmest yet: 23° C (73° F) and there were a lot of people in the streets making the most of it, including couples and family groups on bicycles, whether their own or the red hire cycles.

Family photo in front of Wild King

We saw this family group, the mother photographing the children posing at the feet of Wild Kong.

I can’t imagine how difficult it must be to persuade very young children to conform to the distancing rules and lockdown when they may not appreciate the need for this.

St Mark’s Church and jogger

Quite a few people were choosing to use their exercise time jogging, some trotting in a fairly leisurely way and others putting in a turn if speed. Rather them than me!

VE Day display on the church steps

As it did for Easter, the Church has a display on the steps for the 75th anniversary of VE Day. It is a rather miscellaneous collection, suggesting that suitable materials were hard to come by.

Lions

The centre-piece was formed by these two lions, obviously children’s soft toys and somewhat ill-matched with regard to size. I don’t know why they are attached to one another by string. They are endearing, in a way.

From here we progressed, as is our custom, to Myddelton’s deli. We waited outside while customers in the shop were being served. Then we collected our coffee and made our way home, playing dodge’em with other walkers and joggers.

When I closed the old blog, SilverTiger, I posted a closure notice and, as far as I knew then, that was that. Since then, however, I have kept an eye on the blog and the number of visits that it receives. I expected numbers to gradually decrease but that has not happened. The blog continues to receive a fair number of visits each day.

I wondered whether I should just ignore this or perhaps close the blog definitively, that is, delete it. On the other hand, I am rather fond of it and if people find it useful (I have had a number of requests for permission to use photos since closure), it seems reasonable to leave it open.

A dead blog is rather a sad thing but I cannot commit myself to running two separate blogs. The idea I have come up with is to repeat certain posts from this blog and publish them on SilverTiger. This is an experiment and I cannot say at this stage whether it is a practical proposition. We shall see!

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