The River

I rode my bike along the river on Sunday. It was a beautiful day - the sun was shining, the birds were singing, etc., etc. I snapped some photos of a few stately homes that I saw on my journey. Ok, admittedly they are probably flats or condos, and I know for a fact there is a pub in the bottom of at least one of those buildings, but they were probably houses at one time! Or maybe not. Anyway, they look cool. You'll notice the river is very low, but that's just because the tide was going out. There were some scullers (rowers) on the river and they were going upriver and fighting the outgoing tide. It looked like way too much work! Riding my bike was hard enough work, especially as the path was shared with pedestrians and it wasn't all that wide, with a steep slide into the river with one false move! So it wasn't a particularly fast ride as it was such a stunning day that lots of people were out.

Anyway, then I crossed the river and rode beside the "old cemetery" and stopped at the church attached to it. I have heard that Oliver Cromwell is buried there, so I was going to look for his tomb. I didn't find it, but I did find William Hogarth's. This is a picture of it, with part of the church in the background. The church is beautiful and the cemetery is huge and old - most are from the 1800s. Huge tombs and small tombstones and everything in between. I find cemeteries fascinating - I know it sounds macabre. It's my mom's fault. She reads the obituaries all the time!

Oh yeah, and here is a picture of my guinea pigs, Ant and Dec. Ant is the big one with the white stripe on his back. Dec is the little runty guy.