IanVisits recently posted an interesting article about the Richmond Draw-Off, so we decided that, as we hadn't been out together for ages, we would go and have a look. Low tide this evening was scheduled to be around 16:45, which is, of course, nearly dark, but not yet outdoors dark. We thought we might try to get there about 16:00, so left here about 15:15; we took a 35 to Clapham Junction and then a slow train out to Richmond - this may have been a slight mistake; we might have been better to have waited a few minutes for the express. Anyway, we got to Richmond eventually. I should have got my phone out to take a picture of Richmond Station, which has been restored, and, indeed of a M&S that is still selling clothes - I didn't think they did any more; all the ones round here have been turned into upmarket supermarkets, indistinguishable from Waitrose or Sainsbury's.
Anyway, we walked down to the river, but I don't think IanVisit's timetable was quite accurate, as the tide was already beginning to come in. But it was much lower than usual, and the slipways all went down to mud. We walked along a bit, but it was getting dark, so we decided, just for fun, to take a 190 bus to West Brompton - which took ages, but we knew it would. I did take a very bad photo of Richmond Station, as the bus went past. It went over Chiswick Bridge, and eventually along Lillie Road. I would have quite liked to have turned off to see the house where I lived when I first came to London, over 50 years ago, but somehow we didn't. We didn't have long to wait for a Mildmay line to Clapham Junction. When we got there, the rain had started. A 35 bus took us home, via En Root, where we bought a takeaway but - disaster - it was so wet that the carrier bag disintegrated and most of our supper landed on the pavement! The Swan Whisperer very kindly went back for more, but it was a sad ending to a pleasant afternoon!
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