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Daily Photo: 11/10/2010 – Oxjam in the Pleasaunce

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Here’s a photo taken at Saturday’s Oxjam event in East Greenwich Pleasaunce. Organiser, Bhaswati Guha, who kindly allowed me to use this picture, commented:

We raised £287.35p for Oxfam’s good causes and want to thank everyone including the artists – Global Jazz guitarist Carlos Brizolla, young rock band FireFuds (9-10 years age), Jehnniel – accoustic solo with an alternative twist, Janos our busking clown, councilors – Mary Mills and John Fahy, face painters – Nikola Hooks and Victoria Connolly, our young fundraisers – Jake (7 years) and his sister Polly (5 years) who sold their old books and toys in their stall for Oxfam, Oxfam stewards – Jade, Tim, Ethan, Richard, Alix and Allana, our sponsor Lizzie and her team – Pistachios in the Park Cafe and Friends of East Greenwich Pleasaunce Community Group, Council officers – Locksley Douglas and Annette Muskell, Emma and Rachael Nissim for lending us their amp, and above all the Greenwich local community

Daily Photo: 06/09/2010 – Black hole of Blackheath

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Up in the tennis courts next to the Ranger’s House, there’s a little mystery. It’s a kind of black hole in Blackheath where strange things happen. Anyone who has played on Court 3 will doubtless have experienced the strange phenomenon where tennis balls go into the hedge and never come out. Even if you watch hawk-like as your ball goes into this hedge, you go to retrieve it from the spot that you know your ball went in at and it has simply vanished.

You shake your head in disbelief at the hedge’s ability to steal balls. There’s a moment of mini euphoria when you spot a flash of yellow, plucking it from deep within the leaves like a rare fruit, followed by the sinking feeling of realisation that the hedge is returning someone else’s lost ball but not your own. It’s almost as if the balls disappear through the hedge into a Harry Potter-esque Court 3 3/4.

Daily Photo: 27/08/2010 – Ile De Batz

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Thanks to local tweeter, @MillenniumQuay, for allowing me to use this photo of Alcatel Lucent’s submarine cable laying ship, Ile De Batz, which was taken from Millennium Quay you may not be surprised to hear.

The ship was actually in the area as part of a day of activities yesterday to mark Alcatel-Lucent, based in Christchurch Way, receiving Queen’s Award for Enterprise 2010. The award was presented by Colonel Cyril Young.

Read more about Alcatel and its role in making East Greenwich ‘the home of communication’