Tag Archives: Battersea Park
Cheggers!
Looking through photos I’ve taken recently I can’t believe I didn’t post anything about the pro-celebrity football that Wandsworth hosted at Battersea Park as part of Fostering Fortnight. While I can’t say I knew any of the people playing football, I did recognise Keith Chegwin, who was offering a rather unique style of commentary on [...]
Greener today, greener tomorrow
It is, I decided early today, far too nice to blog. So instead I’m just going to feature the environment video which accompanies our manifesto. I’m a regular user of Battersea Park and have seen the difference that council investment has made, both directly and by leveraging funding from elsewhere. The green spaces in Wandsworth [...]
Weekly wrap-up, 11 December
Although I usually use this last post of the week to witter on about the past week I’m going start off with an event two weeks ago. Battersea Police Ball I can’t believe I forgot to mention this last week, but on Saturday 28 November I attended, along with about 1,500 other people, the Battersea [...]
Battersea Park War Memorial
Following on from my post about the Act of Remembrance at Battersea Park last week I was contacted by someone who felt the memorial looked a bit, well, dirty. I followed up on it with the council staff responsible for the park. It seems the dirt is here to stay for two reasons. First, cleaning [...]
Remembrance Day
I took my son along to the Act of Remembrance in Battersea Park this morning. It might, at first sight, be a slightly odd thing to do. He has just turned one and I can’t claim he showed much awareness of the service – the passing ‘planes interested him far more. But I felt it [...]
Weekly wrap-up, 6 November
It seems to have been an oddly quiet week. Regeneration and Community Safety OSC (well, cycling) I posted about the meeting the following day, so will not repeat the points. Except, rather smugly, to point out that I cycled to the meeting. I’m rather pleased that I’ve been managing to keep the cycling up – [...]
Weekly wrap-up, 23 October
So, for this week’s collection of odds and ends. This week’s photo doesn’t really have any artistic merit – composition and exposure could be better – but it is from Battersea Park where autumn is making itself known. The park really is beautiful at this time of year, and almost magical if you see the [...]
Battersea Poems
The launch of the SW11 Literary Festival takes place tomorrow night, which made me think it’s probably a good time to highlight Battersea Poems again. Taking the text directly from the literary festival programme: Text in your poem and be part of creating a biography of SW11 written by you, the people who live, work [...]
Can Wandsworth learn from Apple?
This may just be an excuse to combine my politics, my geekery and love of Apple. Perhaps it is, but the launch of the new iPhone 3GS and the subsequent reaction to O2′s upgrade policy set me thinking about the relationship we have with businesses and councils. The hype, and anger, surrounding the launch of [...]
