At the start of the week, I went on one of my little expeditions to gather images for the Greenwich Daily Photo section. DaveH48 had kindly suggested I pop down to to the East Greenwich Pleasaunce for some good snaps which, I must admit, is a place I hadn’t visited before. So I was snapping away and came to a gate. I was in photo journalist mode so a gate wasn’t going to stop me, and I duly let myself in. Then I saw a lady coming out of the small building, heading straight towards me and I suddenly clocked what was happening: There was me, a grown man, camera at the ready, standing in a kiddie’s play area outside a playcentre. The lady from the playcentre was perfectly pleasant but it was still slightly embarrasing to find one’s self in the position where someone might have thought I was up to no good, lurking outside a playcentre. A mental note has been made to be more careful in future!

Slightly later than usual this week, Andrew Gilligan’s latest column brought with it a wonderful moment of confession when our esteemed local columnist admitted the famous places in Greenwich he hadn’t visited. Maybe we should all join in. What famous Greenwich landmark have you never been too? I think I only visited the Royal Observatory for the first time recently. Interesting place, with quite a funny one way system for walking around it. I was just inside the entrance, I could practically reach out into the courtyard but the staff instead directed me to walk the entire way route around place to reach the proper “exit”. Slightly over-zealous since you don’t even pay to go in, I thought.

And that’s the abridged round up of the week here at Greenwich.co.uk!