Sunday 5 September 2010

Bouys, boats, blades and birds

Had a strenuous run around Scadbury Nature Reserve on Saturday morning and other than getting lost in the middle of a giant stinging nettle field , there was little to report.

In the evening, we were invited on an exciting boat trip up the Thames by some friends who have recently become boat owners after waiting, inpatiently, for 15 years for a mooring on the Thames at Chiswick.

We set off from Chiswick Pier and headed downstream toward the City.


Buoy of the day.



View from the front of the boat .



Exciting close up view of a landing at the Battersea heliport.



I was rather taken with this beautiful church set against the some of the many newly built blocks of flats along this stretch of the river.
St Mary's Church, Battersea is the local Church of England parish church in Battersea and stands on one of the earliest known consecrated sites on the south bank of the River Thames .
The original church was built as early as 800 AD by the Saxons and the present building was completed in 1777.
The church has strong connections with art and literature through William Blake, who was married here, and Turner, who painted the river from the vestry window. Benedict Arnold and his family are buried in the crypt, and the church has links with the explorer "Scott of the Antarctic".




Starlings starting to amass before their group roost under Wandsworth bridge - all the surrounding buildings were covered with starlings wainting for dusk - it felt like being on the set of a Hitchcock film.



Would highly recommend the new Hitchcock homage film - Double Take.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1386926/

Any film about Hitchcock and that has a tagline "If you meet your double, you should kill him." must be worth a look.

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