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« Thread Started on Jul 12, 2012, 2:52pm »		[Quote]
Sunday 20th May 2012.
We are on the last leg of our 6 weeks in Europe. Today we have taken the train from Manchester Piccadilly station to Euston. Since Friday when we left the Isle Of Wight, we have been visiting with friends in Rossendale, Lancashire.

It's an easy walk to our London apartment from Euston station.
Located in Leigh street above a small hardware shop called Povey & Sons which sells electrical goods, kitchen ware and outside the entrance, an array of plants.
On eitherside of this shop is a Dry Cleaners, then a Tandoori restaurant and the famous North Sea Fish restaurant. Across the road on a corner is a pub, the Norfolk Arms. In the other direction, the lovely half moon semi-circle of hotels in Cartwright Gardens.

It was around 7pm and the keys to the apartment were left at Valencia, corner cafe`.
http://www.london-hideaways.com/bloomsbury-lollipop-studio.html

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Those are our two windows directly above the hardware store- the red door on the right is the entrance to the hallway and stairs.
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Cartwright Gardens
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After we had dumped our cases we went looking for dinner. A small busy Chinese in Marchmont street caught our eye. The food arrived quickly and was delicious. Taking milk and a few other groceries back for the morning, we moved in for the next 11 days.
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Day 2, 21st May.
We caught the tube to Greenwich thinking it would be nice to have a look at the newly renovated Cutty Sark. Unfortunately the entrance to the hull section was closed, but we could walk around the outside.
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We found plenty tables available at The Gypsey Moth Pub and had lunch. At the next table were a family of South Africans so we were in familiar company. I don't mind bumping into fellow countrymen and finding out what they have seen so far.
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The wind was bitingly cold and after sitting watching the Thames for sometime we decided some grocery shopping at Sainsbury's would be good. We went to the branch in the newly upgraded Brunswick shopping complex near the apartment.
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DAY 3, 22nd May.
After breakfast we set off for our rendevous at the Chelsea Flower Show. This was our third visit but had not been since 2001.
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There were dozens of rickshaw/bike cabs waiting to take you down to the show.
This is the chap that brought us.
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The avenue of plain trees and the crowds already there.
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Lets go inside the big white marque.

I was very taken with this "painting" - totally done in leaves and flowers. A very Monet bridge.

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Next up was the South African exhibit - and another Gold medal!
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TV crew around the South African stand.
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More Chelsea to come...including a few videos.
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« Reply #1 on Jul 12, 2012, 3:45pm »		[Quote]
Goodness, I really like the concept they used at the Chelsea Flower show, incorporating the artwork with the flowers, all the exhibits are so cleverly done. :)
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« Reply #2 on Jul 12, 2012, 4:52pm »		[Quote]
You say the houses around Cartwright Gardens are hotels -- all of them? It looks like a really nice place to live. But of course, no shops just downstairs.

I just had a look for Leigh Street on Google maps -- you certainly were well located.
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« Reply #3 on Jul 12, 2012, 5:00pm »		[Quote]
More Chelsea......I think this was Thailand's exhibit. Totally wonderful!
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And China, (Maybe?)
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It's all in the angle..
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Taking some time outside we saw this clever arrangement of driftwood.
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Lots of things to buy..
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Time for a Pimms on the grass while the band played on..
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Much more...much much more to come!
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« Reply #4 on Jul 12, 2012, 7:05pm »		[Quote]
A super report on Chelsea Flower Show, thanks.
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« Reply #5 on Jul 12, 2012, 8:34pm »		[Quote]
Oh, Tod ~~ I greedily await more!

This is wonderful. So exciting to have this eye-witness report. I can't wait to see what you discovered in your rambles.

All of the displays are impressive, but ~~ and I'm not just saying this ~~ I LOVE the S.African one!
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« Reply #6 on Jul 13, 2012, 9:33am »		[Quote]
Thanks everyone - so kind!

More Chelsea Flower Show.
Moving towards the vegetable displays..
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Ever thought of clipping your hedge in the shape of an F1 car?!
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Back to flowers..
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Outside once again we admire some of the displays of garden extras..
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As we make our way towards the exit we stop to look at the Jubilee exhibition. I think it a bit dull actually..
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Never mind, perhaps this green version of the SHARD, got more admiration.
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That ends our time at Chelsea, but not our day as we make for the Thames and a river cruise.
More later...
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« Reply #7 on Jul 13, 2012, 9:43am »		[Quote]
bjd - As far as I know, the semi=circle of attached building are all hotels. I walked past there several times this trip and noticed a few had a bit of a upgrade. New paint, change of flower baskets to no flower baskets etc., The Harlingford Hotel seems to be the top choice.
Some of the rooms are below ground level and others up several flights of stairs. I don't believe there is a lift in any of them.
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« Reply #8 on Jul 13, 2012, 12:30pm »		[Quote]
Leaving Chelsea Flower Show, are feet are feeling all "Chelsea'd out" so we hop on a red double-decker bus to anywhere near the embankment and boats leaving for Tower Bridge and ports o' call.....

We pass this notification.
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In the street the bicycle cabs are queued up in a long line - all touting for business.
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At the Thames.
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I've walked across those long passageways from one tower to the next, but believe it is no longer possible.
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Our first glimpse of The Shard.
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Now that's one terrific weather vane.
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We were soon to sit at a pub next to the old sailing ship - Is it Francis Drake's "Golden Hind"?
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A lot of new construction on the Thames.
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An enormous photo of Prince Charles and his uncle, the Late Lord Louis Mountbatten, hangs down the front of this building.
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London's version of Velib.
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Enjoying the late afternoon sun at the gardens on the embankment near Charing Cross.
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That lovely river trip ended our day.
Tomorrow we visit a street market and our first little garden.
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« Reply #9 on Jul 13, 2012, 3:11pm »		[Quote]
Naturally, I have been gobbling up all of this report, but the flower show nearly did me in. I know that gardening fanatics are absolute fanatics and this certainly proves it. :D But it is wonderful to see without having to actually go there.

As usual, all of the scenes of daily life, the shops, the buildings, the people, etc., fascinate me the most, and I can't wait to see more.
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« Reply #10 on Jul 13, 2012, 3:48pm »		[Quote]
DITTO what Kerouac said! So cool, tod. Thank you for bringing us all that.

The riverfront has changed even since we were there 3 years ago.
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« Reply #11 on Jul 13, 2012, 9:58pm »		[Quote]

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An enormous photo of Prince Charles and his uncle, the Late Lord Louis Mountbatten, hangs down the front of this building.


For the sake of completeness - that was the first bit of a huge blow-up of the palace balcony group at the Queen's Silver Jubilee, put up for the Diamond Jubilee river pageant. It's still there.
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« Reply #12 on Jul 13, 2012, 10:03pm »		[Quote]
Tod, now that I've seen your photos of Chelsea, I think I should take the mower to our garden.

I have to remind myself that I'm not a professional and besides, I'm lazy, so this place will never reach the level of the average English home garden.

My mother and I took a garden trip to England during Chelsea. We considered going to the show but in the end didn't. Luckily for me, every night Chelsea was covered on one TV program or another. It's that big in England. The Philadelphia Flower Show is considered the big one in the USA but it wouldn't be on the news or talk shows night after night. Gardening just isn't deep in the soul of Americans the way it is in the English.

I was interested to see that the English TV presenters were much more frank than Americans would have been.
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« Reply #13 on Jul 13, 2012, 10:40pm »		[Quote]
As a once avid- and still interested- gardener I've really enjoyed this. We have our local flower shows but the English take it to another level entirely. Thank you for sharing this.
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« Reply #14 on Jul 14, 2012, 6:26am »		[Quote]
Thanks so much all.
Patrick, I am always interested in more information on the subject! Looking at the blow-up again, is that Charles or Andrew?

Breeze - thank you for your comments. Just to let others know: You have to buy Chelsea Flower Show tickets in advance (on line). The only other way to get hold of them is to go early and stand and wait for 'late returns' (I think they're called). I met some Americans who did just that.

I will be posting more maybe tomorrow - maybe Monday, as I am babysitting two lively grandsons!
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« Reply #15 on Jul 14, 2012, 7:28am »		[Quote]
I was surprised to see how commercial the Chelsea Flower Show is -- I hadn't realized they would be selling anything, like those giant metal animals that I can't really imagine in anybody's garden. A bit surprised by the harvest festival aspect of it too.

And how do they get plants that normally bloom at different times to all be perfect together? When I see those clematises compared to my scraggly ones...

I agree with Tod that the Queen's Jubilee plantation is rather boring. It looks like the plantings every small French town used to have, either at the entrance with the name of the place, or somewhere near the city hall.

And I must mention the picture of the bridges resting on the red pillars. I took a picture of those pillars in 2006 -- they were just sticking up out of the water and I wondered whether there had been a bridge on them before.

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« Reply #16 on Jul 14, 2012, 4:59pm »		[Quote]
Fabulous Tod

It looks like the weather was kind - you must have been in England on one/several of our limited number of sunny days this year

I am now determined to go to the Chelsea Flower Show
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« Reply #17 on Jul 14, 2012, 5:44pm »		[Quote]
Bjd -Thanks for putting up that photo of the piers just standing with nothing surrounding them! It really shows up to what extent they are building on top of them.

Kind words Lugg, Thanks! You will love it. Yes, it is swamped with people but somehow you never get to the stage where you are looking over other shoulders to view the beautiful exhibits. There is a run on tables at lunch time but you can always eat early or maybe later?!
The day you are viewing is MEMBERS ONLY day. That is the first day the show opens directly after the Queen has been the day before. We are members of the RHS, and have only been on that day in the three times we have been.

The 12 days we were in London were so hot I thought I was back in South Africa! 29C most days and I was constantly looking for shade on our garden excursions.
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« Reply #18 on Jul 14, 2012, 6:09pm »		[Quote]
I am so pleased that the weather was good Tod , and looking forward to the rest of your photos of London.

( Plus some of Rossendale ? )
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« Reply #19 on Jul 15, 2012, 5:08am »		[Quote]
Looks like those pillars had to wait for a revised plan or something. Very enigmatic photo before they finally started building.
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And how do they get plants that normally bloom at different times to all be perfect together?


An awful lot of putting plants into colder or warmer places over preceding weeks, if I remember rightly, plus quite a bit of last minute improvisation to make it look as though it was always intended for the design to turn out the way it looks.


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And I must mention the picture of the bridges resting on the red pillars. I took a picture of those pillars in 2006 -- they were just sticking up out of the water and I wondered whether there had been a bridge on them before.


Yes, the old railway bridge there was supplanted by a later one, but when they removed it they left the pillars: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackfriars_station


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Patrick, I am always interested in more information on the subject! Looking at the blow-up again, is that Charles or Andrew?


Andrew: here's the complete finished display:
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« Reply #21 on Jul 17, 2012, 12:48pm »		[Quote]
Beautiful photos, Tod! The creativity that goes into these flower shows always amaze me. My favorite is the South African display.

Love your shots of the Thames as well.
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« Reply #22 on Jul 17, 2012, 4:56pm »		[Quote]
Many thanks! Here we go for some more....

DAY 4, 23rd May.
Today we are headed out for our first small garden in London. It's the Culpepper Community Garden in Cloudesley road, Islington. www.culpepper.org.uk
To get there one can take the tube to Angel or a bus 153/274.

This beautiful garden has 50 plots for people to grow vegetables, as well as ponds, rose pergolas and ornamental flower beds. There's even an organic lawn with a wildlife area. Volunteers weed and tend this flourishing garden.

Getting off the tube we walk up Liverpool Road and stumble across the Chapel Market.
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Leaving the gardens we went in search of something cool to drink. While waiting in the queue, my husband couldn't help taking a shot of somebody about to loose their trousers... Well the guy behind him must be thinking the same thing!
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The next rendevous was at Bunhill Fields. City Road, Shoreditch
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This former cemetery may not be the quietest open space in London, lying alongside one of the main arterial routes into the city. With it's mature trees this is one of the few areas however, where the city workers can discover a green place to sit in the open air. Wandering down the flagged paths you will find the tombs of Daniel Defoe, John Bunyan and William Blake, quite easily.
This cemetaery has an interesting history - hundreds of plague victims were interred here in 1666 so it is no wonder that the whole area was formerly known as "Bone Hill". Nowadays the area has an abudance of plants from Lime Trees to foxgloves.

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And a little group of bluebells...( not pushing up daisies!)
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More to follow...
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« Reply #23 on Jul 17, 2012, 6:43pm »		[Quote]
To proceed....

It is now on lunch-time and we have decided to try the famous Pie & Mash that Londoner's have eaten for ever.

Leaving Bunhill Fields we pass this old castle-looking building but know nothing about it.
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We hop on a bus and eventually end up in Hoxton.
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Walking down the main street we come across a film being shot in one of the buildings. Sailing past us is a girl in period costume going over for her scene.

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This is what you get......Once was enough thank you very much :P
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This mosque is one of the most modern I have ever seen.
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Next up - A visit to Richmond
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You missed one of the most bizarre tombs in Bunhill Fields:
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The inscription reads:
In 67 months she was tap'd 66 times, had taken away 240 gallons of water, without ever repining for her case, or fearing the operation.

The "castle", by the way, is the HQ building for the Honourable Artillery Company (an old-established reserve regiment); the building is available for hire as well:
http://www.hac.org.uk/html/about-the-hac/
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I like the name of that store Mags and Fags. Would it be politically incorrect in the States? ;D
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« Reply #26 on Jul 18, 2012, 7:39am »		[Quote]
Patrick , many thanks once again for your invaluable knowledge! It all adds to the interesting facts and figures and is much appreciated :D Unfortunately the whole area of tomb stones is fenced off but can be viewed with a guide by appointment only.
That is certainly an unusual ( maybe even cryptic) inscription!

bjd - I think it would attract curious glances if it were a sign in the USA. But even here in S.A. we refer to cigarettes as fags, and in boarding school your junior assigned to polishing your shoes, making your bed, and generally doing your bidding, was called 'your Fag'.
Makes me wonder how the term came to refer to homosexuals.? ???
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Makes me wonder how the term came to refer to homosexuals.?


Abbreviation from "faggot", which - by contrast - in British usage has, instead, been applied in the past to grumpy/bossy old ladies.

Which leaves the question, how did it come to be applied both to cigarettes and to menial/manual labour?
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« Reply #28 on Jul 18, 2012, 6:20pm »		[Quote]
Fabulous Tod2

Your link to Culpepper is broken ( at least for me )

http://www.culpeper.org.uk/ willtake you to the web site. Fascinating to see the before pics and then look at your photos of it now.

Sorry but the pie/ mash looks yuk - what are the green bits floating in the gravy ? ? mint sauce ? Did you enjoy it ?
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what are the green bits floating in the gravy


It's a rather thin parsley sauce, usually, traditionally known as "liquor", for some reason. Pie'n'mash tends to be a bit disappointing, if only because the pies aren't that well-filled and the meat's not the best quality. It's either over-bland, or over-compensated with pepper.
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