A nice lazy Sunday for The Man and me today. Not that it
wasn’t a lovely sunny day. Which it was. The weather seems to have righted
itself after a bit of a cold snap. I bought
an NZ leg of lamb the other day and thought to myself it would make a nice Sunday
lunch. Well tea actually.
So today we had a late brekky and The Man cut the shank end
off the leg for me so that it would fit into our halogen cooker. Dressed with
garlic and a bit of rosemary that I was fortunate enough to find in our shared garden,
salt and pepper and oil. Ready and waiting in the halogen cooker to be switched
on after we get back from our after lunch walk. He’s a dab hand in the kitchen
is The Man, and today he made us yummy ham sammies for lunch
We chose
a route using our local map and off we went. On our way the keen eyes of The
Man spotted an interesting post alongside the perimeter fence of Crystal palace
Park. I’ve never seen one like it before 
According
to the blurb on the board at the entrance to Sydenham Wells Park , the now
defunct and filled in wells were where people including a king came’ to take
the waters’. Apparently the bitter tasting water was full of magnesium. There were some very pretty plants in the
gardens that we hadn’t seen before.
From
there we found out way to Dulwich Park. A very pretty wooded park that hides
the surprise of a disused steam train tunnel. Now closed off to us by gates it
has become the home of local bats. We sauntered down the trail where the train
line would have
run, and across a refurbished rail bridge.
The dappled path led through the wood and out to the edge of
the golf course and ultimately to a road. The noticeboard at the church where
we exited the park told us that men form local regiments fought alongside those
from the NZ Expeditionary Forces on the Somme. The Man’s grandfather was a member
of the NZEF and could have encountered some of the local troops as he too
fought on the Somme.
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