the corner office

The weekend was really nice. We did some work on the allotment (sad to admit, but test drove my new gardening gloves, and they rock for earth-tilling), I did some studying, got to watch Thomas the Tank Engine until my eyeballs threatened to implode. On Sunday Ronwen did a run on Clapham Common while Leo and I hurried back and forth along the route cheering her on. This was her first run; she now has a 'PB' which she can work towards beating, which means this is likely to be the first of many early Sunday mornings for us.

Which is not a bad thing really, and it's a good way to get out and see other parts of the city. Clapham Common is impressively vast and clean, two things which to my mind make a decent common. The area around the common seems to be quite a nice-looking neighbourhood, as well. In London, of course, it's one nice neighbourhood and two blocks later things are decidedly less appealing (having now seen Peckham, I can't say I blame Jacqui Smith).