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section 32 and it is a lovely evening, beautiful blue sky and quite warm and sunny. There are quite a few people in the park today, including people on the tennis court which means I will have to try and creep onto the court to take my photos. For the first time since I have been doing these blogs there is a real level of diversity in the park. All ages, all ethnicities, all backgrounds. People just enjoying the evening sun or watching their children play. It is really nice and Chloe has found the friends we see here every now and then and she’s enjoying playing with them. In fact there are a few children on their scooters having races and terrorising dog walkers. Talking of dog walkers, there were not many about 3 walkers with dogs, including a beautiful basset hound, like Snoopy.
The tennis courts are surrounded by a kind of cage. They aren’t too well maintained with only one court having a net and there is a lot of undergrowth around the bottom of the caging and lots of nettles. There used to be a lot of trees growing into the caging which have been removed but there are a few branches that must have grown into the holes and are still stuck there. Whatever, the kids love the opportunity to ride scooters around it and the guys playing there today certainly seem to be imagining themselves on a clay court in Melbourne or somewhere. They are firing aces at 100 miles an hour and grunting like the best of them. They warn me, when I go on the court, that I may be in danger of their fast, powerful shoots. I was ok fortunately.
Today I saw: 2 trees, tennis cage, tennis court, bushes, nettles, grass, path, 18 pieces of litter, 2 stuck branches, 2 signs, daisies, clover, conkers, 1 feather, 4 tennis players.
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