This walk felt longer than it actually was, partly because I was on unfamiliar territory, which sounds silly since I was barely more than 500 metres from the flat, as the crow flies, but we don't walk that way very often.
I had vaguely thought I would go up to Clapham Common, but realised, by the time I got to the junction of Clapham Park Road and Abbeville Road, that this was probably not going to happen, as I was a bit out of breath already. So I turned left down Park Road, and when I got to St James' Church I realised I really didn't know what happened south of there, and carried on. When I got to more-or-less the end of the road, there was a school, and I didn't know what it was. There were parents beginning to wait outside to pick up their children so I didn't go near them, but looked to my left, and there was the Londis at the entrance to the Estate! I was on Crescent Lane, and the school was what used to be called Clapham Park School, back in the day, and was for visually-impaired children, and then it became the visually-impaired unit of King's Acre School (now King's Avenue School) and now it is a faith primary school for Muslim children. I hadn't realised how much bigger it was behind than what is visible from King's Avenue.
So I came up Crescent Lane, across King's Avenue and Lyham Road, and then past the old Ashby Mill School site. I thought I'd go up Branksome Road and go to Lidl, but then realised I have some mushrooms in the fridge and some cream cheese so we can have midweek mushroom pasta for supper and I had no need to shop. So I came up Strathleven Road, and I'm so glad I did, because when I went past our back gate, I saw there were two beautiful fruit trees in blossom in our garden, so I came in that way to take a photo of them. Then, I regret to say, I walked round the garden until the app told me I'd done 2k before coming indoors! I didn't have to go round and round the garden like a teddy bear, though; half a lap was enough!
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