Big tree

South Wharf Road, W2

Posters, Sudbury Hill

Corner of Cavendish Avenue and Greenford Road

Bus stop, Greenford Road

Looking up former trees*

Cavendish Avenue

* Apologies, a mouse has eaten the corners of the top photo. Ed.

In Gayton library

Studying under the unseen gaze of the Grim Reaper

Chinese section

Link: Harrow libraries

Just when you thought it was safe to back on the field

Suarez / Jaws

Lawson Cypress

Three pictures of the same tree, with its parallel offshoots, yesterday evening. It's in the, uh, grounds of the new Herald House. There's another one alongside but it is incorrigibly tangled with two other trees and undergrowth.

London Plane trees, Du Cane Road

Du Cane Road is lined on both sides with London Plane trees. They are tall and not deformed by pollarding like many others. These are three of the ones along the south side of the street opposite Wormwood Scrubs. In the pictures above you can see the self-cleaning action of the trees, which enables to thrive in polluted atmospheres such as London's by continually shedding and renewing their bark.

Wildflowers

Wood End Road

They are complex flowers, very beautiful, and there are lots growing wild round here. Can you identify them?*

* Love in a Mist! Thanks Nigella. Ed

Singapore London Property for sale: The Library at London Willesden Green

SingaporePropertyHunt.com says:

QUOTE:

for Sale: The Library at London Willesden Green*

"a good time for investment both for capital appreciation and currency appreciation London properties are worthy investment as investors can also look forward to reaping good yields ... a rare opportunity to own a piece of heritage London in a much sort [sic] after north west London Borough of Brent."

Note: "The Library" now means the investment apartments. The former library becomes "a cultural centre". Doesn't it make your blood boil? Ed.

Meanwhile this: Anti-Homeless Spikes Outside London Flats (The Independent)

More of the different

London Plane, Greenford Road near the Kellogg Tower

Elm? Lime? Whitton Avenue West

Another? Whitton Avenue West

Again? Whitton Avenue West, corner of Wood End Lane

?. Wood End Lane, very tall tree. Lollipop?

Willesden Library Centre redevelopment

 

We're to have a Stalinist patronising "Cultural Centre" instead of the library centre and several blocks of flats advertised for sale in Singapore, guaranteed to contain "no affordable housing" and "no key worker housing". And Willesden Green now has no car park.

Brondesbury Park, Willesden

London Plane

Edgware Community Hospital

Douglas Pine? 

Ash

Willow

Horse Chestnut

Horse Chestnut (same) 

Silk Stream

Ornamental Plum and Whitebeam, Harrow

Ornamental Plum. 2 June

Whitebeam. 3 June

Back in the world again

David Gray on the Late Late Show live from Dublin. WH had a couple of spies in the audience for this and it was pretty cool. Also spotted the man himself and his band at the RTÉ canteen earlier in the evening. Did you know that his album White Ladder is the best selling album ever in Ireland?

Sing along...

...if you can keep up.

East London from the air

"When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life." Samuel Johnson

Video by Honey Worth
"#eastlondonair @honeyworth @standaloneuk
A unique and fascinating look at East London from the air.
Music 'Stratosphere' kindly donated by David O'Brien / Gareth Johnson."

Phoenix Park, Dublin

Oak 1

Oak 2a

Oak 2b

I took these on the way in to Bloom in the Park yesterday (Phoenix Park, Dublin).

Harry Lemon

Drumcondra, Dublin

Sycamore?

This is a funny one

Maradonna's "hand of God" goal, recreated with Lego

What's really funny is the players arguing with the ref. at the end.

This evening

View from Wood End Road

Local election results Brent and Harrow 2014

Brent

The Brent results are in. It stays under Labour control. But the LibDems have been all but wiped out, down from 16 to 1 councillor. Conservatives are down 1 to 6 and Labour are up 16 to 56. No other parties won a seat and therefore Labour has an overall majority of 56 to 7. It seems nobody cares that half of the libraries were closed and sold off to developers to build flats for overseas buyers.

Harrow

In Harrow the breakaway Independent Labour 9 councillors have been wiped out and official Labour is up 9. The split was about some perceived racism in the local party. I don't know how true it can be as two of the three official Labour candidates here in the Harrow-on-the-Hill ward (home of the new Herald House) were Asian. We also had a UKIP councillor, switched from Independent, in Harrow but he lost his seat this time. So it's UKIP minus 1 here and Conservatives plus 1. So much for "the UKIP surge". Totals: Labour 34, Conservatives 26, LibDems 1 (no change) and Independent 2. So official Labour has taken back the council from "no overall control" to an overall majority of 5.

Complete national results: Guardian
London facts and figures: Diamond Geezer

Zadie on storytelling

Zadie Smith accepts the 2014 Moth Award at the annual Moth Ball Gala, held at Capitale in NYC

"The unlikeliest story of my life is the one about the girl from Willesden who found readers in the United States." Follow the link for the complete talk. It contains among other things a marvellous memoir of her school days.

South Vale, Harrow

Ash

Oak

Hawthorn

Laburnum

Sunday evening

Oak canopy over South Vale road