Blog Posted And We Were On Our Way,

to visit Duncan, as it was Diana's day off she wanted to accompany me, 

cold weather clothes on, 

we made our way past the snail mail box, 

and were soon on a number 54 bus, as usual they travel in packs, two here coming towards us, and a third about to turn to follow the other two,

we passed Peter Pan's Pool,

in the distance the sky clearing, 

the plants on top of this bus shelter in the bee garden starting to change to red, 

we were making good time, 

until a driver change, 

the sky clearing now as we approached Catford, 

the wisteria on this building just starting to flower,

the Catford street market just starting to open,

along the route the chestnut trees in flower, 

as a school boy I would look at trees like this on my way to school, thinking about the conker season in the school playground, 

Lewisham market up and running,

in Blackheath Village the florists open,

the aroma of stocks filling the air, 

lots of cut flowers,

as well as a few potted plants,

including a few dwarf sunflowers,

Diana stocking up on croissants and coffee for the train journey,

we made our way along the platform, 

changing trains at Dartford, 

arriving in Gravesend the sky had started to cloud over, 

on to and off of the 483 and we were walking up the hill towards the nursing home where Duncan stays,

the silver birches now with all of their foliage, inside Duncan was in fine sprits and pleased to see Diana, we chatted away about some of the times we had all meet up for meals and at weekends, as Duncan's lunch arrived we said our farewells and left for the bus stop, 

the roses at the entrance still not quite in flower, 

off of the bus and onto platform 0, and here is our train arriving, thankfully we did not have to change trains at Dartford, 

onto the bus at Blackheath village and we were soon head towards Catford, 

past the Catford cat, when we arrived at Catford bus garage it was not a change of driver, it was a change of bus! everybody off and onto another number 54, 

we were soon on our way again, passing a failed bee garden, now all weeds, still I do not suppose the bees will mind as long as the flowers have nectar, 

we were soon hurtling past the Homebase at Peter Pan's Pool,

and walking past Foxgrove Lodge into the park,

arriving home it was soon time for our evening meal, also waiting for us was the new edition of Private Eye, 

for our starter chicken soup with onion and sweetcorn,

for our main course I thought it was baked salmon until I tasted it, it was in fact Scottish loch trout, delicious,

'Cheers!',

we ended the meal with a Eton mess, 

I just had to have another 'Cheers!', after our meal it was time for a Midsomer Murder, which we followed with a Have I Got News For You, after which we were off to bed.