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| Stik on Hansler Road inspired by Unknown Couple in a Landscape by Gainsborough |
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| CEPT at the entrance to the newbuild on Bawdale Road being covered by Grand Designs |
Take the other weekend, when my sister Moira was visiting from Aberdeenshire, with her partner Andy and nine-year-old daughter, Sula. As is the way with my family, the occasion brought on a family get-together of some considerable size, and widely varying ages. A tall order, to please everyone, but I was able to drum up a day of outdoor art and activity, without straying so much as a metre out of SE22. First up, the local murals and we kicked off with a few of the smaller ones, on Blackwater Street, moving on to Nunca's enormous Queen Bee by The Plough, more Stik opposite Push Studios, the fabulous Phlegm horn-player on Goodrich Road, the Discreet owl on Bawdale Road and Christian Nagel's mushroom atop Mrs Robinson on Lordship Lane. Prize spot, on the pavement outside the painted house on Lordship Lane was a Ben Wilson piece of illustrated chewing gum.
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| The 'tour group' on Blackwater Street, where a Stik piece was recently nicked off the wall |
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Olivia and the Queen Bee
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| The kids with Phlegm's horn-player |
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Discreet's owl fascinates
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After a break for lunch we then took off to Dulwich Park, to hire recumbent bikes. Talk about Whacky Races. With such stunning autumn sunshine, blue skies sprayed with streaks of white, and the world and his wife out strolling in the last couple of hours of daylight, it's astonishing that none of our crazy bikers took the legs out from under some unsuspecting pensioner.
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| Moira about to take her daughter out for pole position |
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| Rory and Lottie clearing the path of passers-by |
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Cate polices the Whacky Racers
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| A bicycle made for Matt and Zoe |
