Days out in London

Spring is here at last, time to come out of hibenation.

Greenwich Mean Time
Greenwich Park on a sunny Saturday morning in Spring. Views, joggers, children and daffodils. Greenwich market is well worth a rummage, especially if you are peckish. The Royal Maritime Museum is free and fabulous. There is ample and cheap parking nearby.

Midday, 18 March at the Royal Observatory

20 minutes away in Nunhead is one of the Capital's great cemeteries. Park free at the front gates. The grounds are maintained but in a very unfussed way. This is Gothic Central as nature and masonry engage in a century-long battle for domination. 

Such a cliche, I couldn't help snapping it.

The Red House at Bexleyheath was designed by Philip Webb for William Morris. It is an Arts and Crafts sampler of a house. We've wanted to visit since it opened to the public in the 90s. Morris' ambiance is still strong in the house. A sense of his melancholy fills many of the spaces. May Morris scratched her name in a window pane and Janey shared her affections.

You can imagine Rossetti climbing standing atop the settle recounting poetry and nonsense.

The design is aesthetically perfect. Airy, high ceilings, big windows, homely and full of such tasteful decoration.

Covehithe

The stump used to be on dry land. We haven't visited this windswept disappearing corner of Suffolk for many years. The pigs have been moved back from the cliff and we kept our distance too. 

Berger and Wyse are brilliant

http://www.bergerandwyse.com/

Q&A

I love The Guardian Magazine's Q&A page because I'm nosey. I had a go at answering the questions myself and realised it wasn't all that easy. When I got friends and family to join in I discovered things about people I never knew - or would guess.

Colour in the bleak mid-Winter

T'was the morning before Christmas and the east facing windows became pictures in themselves. 

Q&A Ellie B

When were you happiest?
When I finished my first year of teaching - I was exhausted but so very happy

What is your greatest fear?
I am scared of spiders but I truly fear being seriously injured and alone (how pleasant)

What is your earliest memory?
Either swimming in a lake full of tadpoles in Austria or running down a hill into a cow pat

What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
Greed

Q&A Jimmy (aged 6)

When were you happiest? 
When my brother Declan was born
What is your greatest fear? 
The Dark - actually the really really dark.
What is your earliest memory? 
Going to Berlin