booze and cake
probably out cycling
Following on from my post on page 22 of the green wall at the back of Tate Britain, I've since discovered London's largest living wall is in Victoria. Its testament to how busy the road its located on is, being just off Buckingham Palace Road and the motorway to Hyde Park corner, and how concentrated you have to be to cycle and avoid conflict with the 24/7 stream of cars, lorries, buses, construction vehicles and tourists, that despite cycling right past it on countless occasions in over 3 and a half years I've never ever noticed it. I cycled up there today and had a proper LOL at the scale of my obliviousness.
Unfortunately taking a picture of it with a bike for this threads purposes was'nt straight forward, both sides of the 2 lane 1 way system are currently building sites with huge cranes, hoardings, and loads of men in high Viz looking not busy, but quizzically at the fella in lycra putting in his bike in funny positions and pointing his phone at the sky. The local CCTV operatives must have been poised over the 'alert the feds we've got a live one here' button. So first off I tried this
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Bah! Does'nt do it justice, builders hoardings are making it tricky, so I come further back
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Hmm a bit better but I'm still not happy, so I try to go square on but this is as far back as I can go without getting splatted by the 2 lane perma-traffic.
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Totally useless, OK so we have bike, but where's the bloody green wall! Look up.
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[/URL] Still looks pretty good for late in the year, look right a bit…
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OK so I'm going to risk leaving my unlocked bike, unattended, as I cross the 2 lane superhighway on the green man ped crossing to try and get it all in one photo, remember this is 'if it ain't nailed down it'll get nicked' London we're talking about here, so my heart is pounding more that it does riding down here. I clip clop across the road in my silly cycle shoes, go as far back as I can against more builders hoardings, take a quick snap before pegging it back across before the green man ends and I'm stranded.
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DOH!, total fail again, LOL you can only just see a tiny bit of the bikes front wheel, its like a where's Wally, but loads more rubbish. This was the best I could manage
I did'nt do it justice, more about it here:
https://www.fastcodesign.com/3017384/londons-largest-living-wall-takes-root
Unfortunately taking a picture of it with a bike for this threads purposes was'nt straight forward, both sides of the 2 lane 1 way system are currently building sites with huge cranes, hoardings, and loads of men in high Viz looking not busy, but quizzically at the fella in lycra putting in his bike in funny positions and pointing his phone at the sky. The local CCTV operatives must have been poised over the 'alert the feds we've got a live one here' button. So first off I tried this
http://s1221.photobucket.com/user/muldoon72/media/IMG_20160928_161013_zpsugq88d7d.jpg.html]
[/URL]Bah! Does'nt do it justice, builders hoardings are making it tricky, so I come further back
http://s1221.photobucket.com/user/muldoon72/media/IMG_20160928_161043_zpsfcvztljl.jpg.html]
[/URL]Hmm a bit better but I'm still not happy, so I try to go square on but this is as far back as I can go without getting splatted by the 2 lane perma-traffic.
http://s1221.photobucket.com/user/muldoon72/media/IMG_20160928_161341_zpshi7sbeeu.jpg.html]
[/URL]Totally useless, OK so we have bike, but where's the bloody green wall! Look up.
http://s1221.photobucket.com/user/muldoon72/media/IMG_20160928_161351_zps0uakdclz.jpg.html]
[/URL] Still looks pretty good for late in the year, look right a bit…http://s1221.photobucket.com/user/muldoon72/media/IMG_20160928_161404_zpsxlvfjoda.jpg.html]
[/URL]OK so I'm going to risk leaving my unlocked bike, unattended, as I cross the 2 lane superhighway on the green man ped crossing to try and get it all in one photo, remember this is 'if it ain't nailed down it'll get nicked' London we're talking about here, so my heart is pounding more that it does riding down here. I clip clop across the road in my silly cycle shoes, go as far back as I can against more builders hoardings, take a quick snap before pegging it back across before the green man ends and I'm stranded.
http://s1221.photobucket.com/user/muldoon72/media/IMG_20160928_161430_zpsupqwctjm.jpg.html]
[/URL]DOH!, total fail again, LOL you can only just see a tiny bit of the bikes front wheel, its like a where's Wally, but loads more rubbish. This was the best I could manage
I did'nt do it justice, more about it here:
https://www.fastcodesign.com/3017384/londons-largest-living-wall-takes-root
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