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Andrew is organising another Lewisham bloggers get together at the end of the month (25 July at The Honor Oak pub). I almost certainly can't make this one due to a prior engagement but anyone who stumbles across this site looking for fellow Lewisham bloggers should head over to the Facebook event page for more details.

If you are not on Facebook, you can direct comments and questions to the announcement post on Andrew's blog.

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Well done to the organisers of the Blythe Hill Festival, which Jane and I visited yesterday afternoon. They had a whole range of different stuff going on, including some excellent music and the morris dancing I mentioned yesterday. There were some minor things that they could perhaps think through a little more (for example, the morris men's music got drowned out from only a short distance away by the main stage; perhaps they could have performed during the overlong changeovers between acts?) but, all in all, it was a great event.

Personally, I preferred it to the much larger scale of People's Day (coming up on 12 July); perhaps sometime in future, the council could switch to a rolling, co-ordinated programme of supporting festivals across all the parks that grace Lewisham's landscape?

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Today is the day when Londoners get a chance to vote for their mayor. How many seize that opportunity remains to be seen but I think there are good reasons, not least the fact that there are some candidates with egregious policies who will be disproportionately represented if most of us can not be bothered to make time to cast a vote.

For those outside London, prayer that we don't submit a vote for apathy (and, hopefully, make a good collective decision); for my fellow Londoners, get to that polling station before the day is out!

Last night I went to a meeting of the Friends of Mountsfield Park.

Read more on my Walking Hither Green blog - click tower picture to read about the park.

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I have made some more updates to my Walking Hither Green site. Click tower picture to read about my adventures in Further Green.

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I am still working on photos from the walk I took at the start of the month but did find time yesterday to make some updates to my Walking Hither Green site, including a widget that shows the pictures I have published and links to other neighbourhood walkers I have found. Click tower picture for more.

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I took a little detour from my normal routes yesterday to go shopping in Orpington with a couple of specific targets in mind. One was to get more yeast for baking from the Julian Graves store in the Walnuts Centre - they do a Doves Farm Yeast that I find works very well. Or, rather, they used to do the yeast I wanted; apparently it came off the shelves to make way for Christmas offers and hasn't yet been restocked. Grrr!

The other part of the mission was to look for some new shoes and I was successful in that, stopping in Stead and Simpson near the end of the High Street. I think I recall being taken in there as a child and it proved to be a good little shoe shop, well stocked and equipped for the purpose of browsing, trying and buying footwear. Unfortunately it also seems to be the near the end of Stead and Simpson because they were having a closing down sale.

Time to put my new shoes on and get up to church (and I did get the yeast in the end - by happy coincidence I discovered that Waitrose now stock exactly the one I wanted, so I am well stocked up).

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