Random Selection of End of Year Photos

Clearing the last photos I meant to share before the year is over...

Best seat on the bus-at the back on the bottom deck opposite this seat. More space! Social distancing on buses has always seemed a little difficult so any small gain is good.

Last week small world table set up by the student in the class. Woolly snow and a farmyard conversation. 

Hello.  Camberwell cat gives me a hard stare. 

Photo taken from the queue where I eat my leftover sandwiches on the way home from work. It is a queue that can take a while so I have time to eat and am always hungry at that time! I liked the light and shadows from the plants on the ceiling of the balcony. 

I did hang my wreath on the front door in the end. I made the bow from a plastic bin bag. The bay has curled up but otherwise it lasted quite well. 

Christmas present for the cats. I tried to put it together myself but was soon very cross with whoever designed it and Andy had to step in. The thought occurred to me during my slight tantrum, that people have sent astronauts to the moon. The contrast between their abilities and mine was stark. To give myself a bit of a break, it was a two person job, to balance the bits that needed to be balanced while the next one was attached. Anyway, Cassie loves it, and Oliver quite likes it now. Lily also got a new simple post one in the bedroom and she loves it, so success!

Here is Cassie on tier 4, not in it like most of the country. She won't go on the top part though, I think because she cannot see into it because of the edging. 

This hexagonal building is at Surrey Quays, where I had to go to meet a fellow cat sitter to pick up some keys. It was a beautiful day. I had to drive to New Cross and get the bus to Peckham later in the week to return the keys to their owner as all cat jobs but one were cancelled. 

This is a mask dispensing machine I saw in the shopping centre. It shouldn't surprise me but it does when things adapt to the new normal which isn't even new anymore. 

Poster seen when getting the cat tree.

Holly lined view into the street below from a little part of Blackheath I hadn't seen before. Though I have walked up the road below.

Beautiful oak leaves in the same place. Wrong shoes which were soon really wet. 

The stamp looked good on the envelope.

Amazing Amaryllis I got for my birthday. I left it too long to open and plant it, and there were some poor stunted flowers in the box. These died, then it grew again and produced four of these candy striped beauties!

My only cat this Christmas was Barney. Here he is demonstrating what his person called his batman pose! He was very funny and playful and lived near a little park I had not been to before where I saw this fallen tree cave. 

Coconut person from the foreshore last week. I didn't take him home as I thought he was probably happy bobbing around in the river on and off. 

Finally my tree, which is one of the nicest looking trees we have ever had, and I wished my Mum could have seen it. I wasn't going to get one, then I decided to go for plastic everlasting instead of real and soon to die. Ikea came up with the goods. I am going to take it down tomorrow as I don't want to leave that job until next week. Schools in London are mainly closed for the next couple of weeks, but I am going to be going in to work with the children that still come in-those of key workers and vulnerable children. It will be different but it will keep me busy and at least the buses and roads will be quieter. 

Happy new year to you, and I hope things will get rapidly better as they are not too good at the moment.