OK strictly speaking it’s W12 …
While not exactly in the area, Wormwood Scrubs is an area of grassland designated in 1879 as a public space. It’s in the borough of Hammesmith and Fulham, though in fact the eastern part, known as Little Wormwood Scrubs is within Kensington and Chelsea. The Scrubs deserves an article of its own because it has an interesting history.
… but that’s close enough for me
It’s close enough to the western end of Notting Hill to be the nearest open space, so many of us from this end go for walks there and today Wifey and I decided to go blackberry picking. During the last couple of weeks they’ve really ripened and the biggest and softest of them are deliciously sweet. We picked a couple of kilos and we’ve decided on making urbanberry jam, urbanberry crumble (well, I have) and to freeze the rest and use them in smoothies.
The sounds of Carnival
The experience was good in a husband and wife team building sense and was made all the more pleasurable by the fact that we could hear a steel band rehearsing somewhere in the distance for Notting Hill Carnival next weekend.
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