A Green Face

Tucked away in a corner of Southwark is a small public garden known as Red Cross Gardens.  Created in Victorian times on the site of a burnt down paper factory, designed as a space for local children to play in the sunshine.

There is another more chilling history to the site that dates back hundreds of years and that is as a paupers grave where it is believed most of those buried here were prostitutes.

Today it continues to be small community garden but perhaps with a doomed future as the London Bridge development and new tower blocks spring up all around it.

Another Place To Stay Warm

Cicero's pub at the west end of the Delmar Loop (which is actually a straight line, but there's a backstory) is another cozy place on a cold day. We stopped in for a beer to kill some time before a restaurant reservation. They have 55 brews on tap and 200 in bottles. I ordered a Schlafly, as on the billboard on the right. My favorite is the Kölsch.

The framed decorations on the back wall are all beer tap handles.

The theme for City Daily Photo bloggers on February 1 is
"A Scene from a Cafe or Coffee House.”

                   

Vu de plus loin le chérubin (ça rimerait presque...)

Here's the wider view of yesterday's cherub...

Pink piggy at the Red Windmill

A bit of exploring through the Overberg brought us to the Red Windmill farm stall and restaurant outside the town of Napier.  Next to the entrance we discovered this pink pig and how can one not want a photo with a pink pig?  We opted for a family photo for a change and as I had no tripod had to make do with a backpack on the ground

On the way to Market

Hard to imagine our urban streets with traffic whizzing by, once being paths where the cattle were driven to market for sale.