As I mentioned previously, Tigger is working Tuesday to Friday this week. This leaves me with little incentive to go out, even though I feel I ought to. It’s just too easy to stay at home and read my books (I have just finished Georges Simenon, L’homme au petit chien and have started Patrick Modiano, Des inconnues).

On leaving the office today just after 4 pm, Tigger phoned me to propose meeting for coffee and cake in Myddelton Square Gardens. I waited until her second bus left Liverpool Street Station and then I set out.

Myddelton’s deli was still open when I arrived and I there procured the required cake and coffee. This I carried along to Myddelton Square Gardens.

In the walled garden

As the weather was cloudy-sunny and warm, many benches were occupied but I found one in the central walled garden, in sight of the gate where Tigger would arrive.

Colourful in the sunshine

The sunshine was intermittent but when it did shine, it lit up the flowers and made them shine with colour.

Wood pigeon

I wondered whether the pigeons would recognise us (according to this article, they can recognise individual human faces) and expect to be fed. Fortunately, they did not. As well as the usual feral pigeons, there are also wood pigeons but they are far more circumspect and do not usually approach people.

Calm and pleasant place

The garden is a calm and pleasant place, far enough from the main roads not to attract crowds. I hope it remains so.

Sunlit façades

To go home, we walked round the square. I may by biased but I think the houses are beautiful, especially when the sun shines on them. It’s sometimes hard to remember that they are around 200 years or more old.

Dressed all in green

The sun was shining on the Curvaceous Tree which now, of course, is attired in a full dress of green.

Cloudscape

The skies of this island are rarely free of clouds, even at the height of summer. Love them or hate them, clouds form beautiful and dramatic patterns, especially when, as here, they interact with the sun.

We though, turned for home, having enjoyed our interlude in the garden.