Went to Kew Gardens a few weeks ago to look at the autumn colours, but we were about a week too late. You’ve got to hit that sweet spot before it gets too wet and windy, and we missed the peak, but it was still an amazing day, as any day is in my favourite London place. It was so great to be back as we missed the spring and summer there, and I couldn’t help but smile watching this crow enjoying an autumnal walk too.

Quite soon after entering we sat down on a bench for our picnic and enjoyed the view of the lake. Still some good colour there.

I always always always end up taking a picture of this pine tree every time we go. It’s just so damn majestic! And it has such a serious lean. Hope it doesn’t completely collapse one day.

Ahhhh, excellent choice of bench, lady.

Still haven’t been inside the Great Pagoda; it was recently refurbished and in normal times you can go up it, but alas not currently. I look forward to exploring it properly one day.

There was still some autumn colours to be seen, like this tree…

… and this one. I’d love a big print of this… I say that every now and again about a picture, and then I never do it. I’ll just blame it on the fact that there isn’t an empty wall anywhere in our house - which is true.

We brought Oomoo’s classmate L for the day, and not long after I took this a Kew employee sped up in a golf cart telling us off. No tree climbing here kids!

Good thing you can still cartwheel though, eh? Have you tried cartwheeling recently? It frickin’ hurts. For me it feels like my back is about to snap in half and my legs are about pop out of my hip sockets.

On the ground on the way into the Palm House. Looks like Gill Sans to me.

I’ve never experienced the Palm House as empty as it was that day. It can easily feel claustrophobic with the heat and all the people, but on this visit we could spend a bit more time in there and look a bit more carefully at the plants.

And pay attention to the smaller ground creeping plants like this one. Beaut!

Tina Turner anyone? Ha. Ha.

As usual I took quite a lot of pics, so I’ve had to break the visit into two parts, so you don’t OD, and besides, let’s prolong all this pretty for a bit, yeah? Ok ok, I realise as I write this that this particular picture isn’t 🙃. Kew is still open during this lockdown, but all of the buildings are closed to visitors. I quite fancy going back there again soon. A December walk could be good?! Let’s do it.