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Studio 432 has carried on the tradition started by Wendy's Workshop of decorating their shop window to celebrate festivals and symbolic dates. They are almost always charming but I am selective and it takes a display as striking as this one to make the cut and be featured here.

Fore!

Either this house in Sudbrook Gardens has a military-grade trampoline in the back garden or the net is there to stop stray golf balls from the course next to it.

Path cleared

This is one of the two paths from Mead Road to the Lock Road spur behind Meadlands School and the plant clippings on the ground tell you that encroaching vegetation has been cut back making the path freely passable.

Three Buddhas

These three Buddhas give me another opportunity to extol the virtue of walking down no-through-roads just to see what is there. On this walk I went along Craig Road and explored all three roads off it and these are at the end of one of them, my memory fails to recall which one!

Meadlands mapped out

The shape and the scale of the new build at Meadlands School is suggested by the scaffolding frame and I think it will be a while before there are any further clues as to its final appearance.

YK18 OAJ breaks the rules

The double-yellow lines and dropped kerb very obviously says that this is not a place to park but the driver of YK18 OAJ chose to break the rules.

Pavement repairs around Ham Common

The current programme of pavement repairs includes a large section along the north side of Ham Common; this is the segment between Martingales Close and Bishop Close.

The surprising thing is that the pavement here is tarmac rather than paving stones is being used despite this being within Ham Common Conservation Area 7.

 

The use of tarmac looks even more odd when you see that paving stones are used in Bishop Close.

The Click Studios

I am happy to confess when I am wrong and this is one of those times. Earlier in the year I speculated that The Click Studio had closed but it now appears that the work being done then was not clearance, only refurbishment. The end result is very much like the original, so much the so that I cannot spot any differences.

White track

The view of the cute new hut for Petersham & Ham Sea Scouts as seen from the towpath has been swamped by the large and very white track leading up to it. I dare say that there are good reasons for building the track this way but at the moment the appearance is rather brutal, particularly given its woodland setting.