Captain JP's log

This week we lost a blogging friend when Bonnie, behind the Frogma blog , passed on. I never met her in person, but through blogging I felt ...

Happy New Year! Hope you all had a great New Year's eve, celebrating we'd made it through another Covid dominated year. Fingers cros...

I've just been to the Tate Britain to see the Hogarth and Europe exhibition, and rather than reviewing it thought it might be better to...

Carshalton Pond is one of the heads of the Wandle, and this walk, the last on my Wandle Trail , was to find the other, somewhere in the urba...

The second leg of the Wandle Trail walk started at Morden Hall Park . This is a great place to start / end being a National Trust property ...

The start of my Wandle river walk was where it meets the Thames, as in the photo above. There used to be a half-tide weir here, but it was ...

This week, from October the 23rd to 31st, is London Rivers Week , and to celebrate that I'll be posting a description of a walk I did al...

So where do you stand? Are you a fan of Horatio Hornblower or Jack Aubrey? I've seen quite a difference in views on these two fictional ...

Over the last few years some of the bridges of London have been lit up as part of the Illuminated River installation . Designed by New York...

After the Classic Boat Festival at St Katharine Dock , as in the last post, the little ships dispersed, and a lot of them headed up river, s...

I was really busy the weekend of the Classic Boat Festival at St Katharine Dock (including the trip to the Greenwich Pumping Station ) but ...

Last weekend was Open House London 2021 when all sorts of interesting places that are usually private and hidden away were accessible.  Som...