Snowdrops, winter aconites and crocuses out, daffodils just starting to flower with lots more to come. Tulips just starting. Fat fish all present and correct in the round pond in the privy garden. Quite a lot a bits of tree lying around after the wind, nothing very large and the gardeners were busily clearing up.
River high and fast with some minor flooding, although the Palace looked safe enough. For once, the Lumia could not cope with the bright sunlight and over compensated in the view above. Size of the river about right but it looked a lot more bright and cheerful in real life than it does here.
Off the 'Five at the Bridge' for tea and cake, in my case rock cakes, a little dry but entirely eatable. The café was doing well and was nearly full, for once with people mainly younger than ourselves. But, irritatingly, I have failed to find any clear record of our previous visits, of which there have been several, a search not helped by my usually getting muddled up between the various offerings on Bridge Street. Closed the outing with a quick visit to Lancelot's to pick up two different sorts of gewurztraminer, neither being the same, or as dear as the last one we had from him. We will see if they are as good.
Or almost closed it, as we had fun getting out of the Hampton Court Station Car Park, the far end of which has been taken over by builders, without anyone thinking to make sure that one could still get out by driving clockwise, that is to say by sticking cones in a couple of the median parking slots. Much confusion and waiting as a result. But good humoured; no-one resorted to honking let alone shouting.
PS: on reflection, maybe the size of the river was a bit OTT. Maybe the product of having a very small lens very close to whatever passes for film in a camera in a telephone. Maybe the relevant geek-speak is very short focal length,
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