Week 299: Tree walk

L— and I met an old friend on Tuesday night for some drinks (al fresco at The Rake near Borough Market) and a lot of chat. We had several years to catch up on. The lesson is that if you haven’t seen a friend in ages, even if that’s because they live far away and don’t come to London for work any more, and you’re thinking of them, send them a message. Thursday evening was perfect weather to wander around Russia Dock Woodland looking at trees with s group of people led by someone from the London Wildlife Trust. I can now tell you the different between a field maple, a Norway maple, and a sycamore, and I can distinguish an aspen from a white poplar. Urban idyll (Russia Dock Woodland on a fine autumn evening) I wrote to my MP expressing my displeasure at the apparent legal immunity enjoyed by Daniel Thomas and his organised, uniformed gang of masked fascists after he blocked the port of Dover, gathered a mob to attack and interfere with RNLI volunteers, and filmed himself deliberately…