Beating the bounds of Ham

Working away for most of the last two years has severely reduced my opportunities for walking through my local neighbourhood, Ham in South Richmond / North Kingston.

A few days holiday at home has given me some time to redress that and today I took advantage of a lapse in the rain to put in a good 8 km walk more-or-less around the borders of the built-up part of Ham.

I managed to keep up my usual just-under 10 minutes a Km pace which gave me a good eighty minutes to catch-up on my podcasts. It's Monday and I am now up to last Thursday. I need to do more walking.

My route took me through some very different areas from social housing to mansions worth several millions each, and everything in-between.

Ham has grown significantly in the last one hundred years and there are clumps of houses from several periods and in several styles.

I also found a few things of interest to post on my Ham Photos blog which tries to capture the unusual, the unexpected and the unnoticed things in Ham. I do that because nobody else does.

Towards the end of my walk I went around the top end of Ham Common and  took this picture looking across it toward the setting sun.

Just another reminder of why I live in Ham and have no intention of moving away.