I'm so tired!

Very tired Deer. Bushy Park, Today

I don't mean me by the way. I'm not tired at all. I just had a Lovely cup of de-ca-co (de-caf coffee) & 6 biscuits (3 ginger nuts & 3 dark chocolate digestives). I can hear the tumble dryer going round & round in the kitchen and the TV insists on showing me tits, real murder & repeat showings of old cop shows! Take your pick!
Anyways, I have been out and about this very Lovely day. It is my best (female) friends 33rd Birthday today and I have been taking photographs of boring things like Twickenham Riverside, York House Gardens Statues & the Deer in Bushy Park too. Jac went to Brighton to look around the shops there. The last time I went to Brighton I was kayaking under the piers. The very old and terribly neglected closed down Victorian West Pier was such a fascination to see up close, to be in amongst all that decay & history. I could almost see up the skirts & bustle of the young Victorian ladies as I looked up through the rotting slats from underneath the pier. Oh for a Time Machine!

It was so warm today! It reached about 22*c. So out I went with my trusty camera. It is a Canon IXUS500 digital compact (very basic) but it's amazing what kind of photos you can get with it. I really must get a proper digital SLR of some sort. I have been meaning to for some time. So there I was, out in the Lovely weather enjoying my cheese & ham with roasted vegetables panini purchased from Starbucks in York St, Twickenham. Took a walk down to the Thames, past the site of the old swimming pool...so sad! Past a line of fine looking pigeons sitting on the railings (poor railings). Got a whiff of beer & lager as I found my way past The Barmy Arms Pub and sat on the concrete slab on the rivers bank, overlooking the view up towards Richmond Hill and The Royal Star & Garter Home for old disabled war veterans (our heros).
Finished up my lunch and walked to the statues that I Love very much. I remember as a very young teenager, 'The Cure' made a video for "Hanging Garden" from the brilliant "Pornography" album there and just weeks later the statues were covered in all kinds of obscene goth related graffiti & empty bottles of Tipex thinner strewn about the place. I remember quite well (who could forget) that one of the girls, whom were all totally naked, had a bright pink bush of hair spray painted onto her private parts! I never touched them, you must believe me. All I could do was stare and wonder wether my (first) future girlfriend would have one like it;) (My lips are sealed).
The statues are looking wonderful now of course. They have for some time. Ever since they got a makeover in the way of a Lovely sand blasting from the local council and a "hidden" camera was installed. It has been a long time since Robert Smith freaked out the whole of Twickenham with his big hair & dodgy lipstick. I am a fan of course:)
The day was moving along at a very rapid speed, and before I knew it, it was almost 4pm. I jumped into the car and made my way to Bushy Park just up the road near to where I live. The sun was still shining and the warmth no less. As soon as I got out of the car all I could hear were the Stag Deer calling for mates. You can hear them from some distance away. It is such an eerie sound. Almost like some kind of pre-historic beast might sound like. I saw one resting in the long yellow grass, his antlers sticking up all nice and pointed (an Imperial if I'm not mistaken due to the point count). He looked ever so tired, grass draping from his antlers, momentarily stooping until his chin reached the ground, then back up and head high, calling....tired and still ready for more. I suppose he is calling for female Deer to mate with? Or other Stags to fight with? I took my photo and let him be. Took a walk through the dry, yellow grass, the same grass that Henry VIII rode over whilst hunting these Deer. Meandered through a clump of very foul smelling giant mushrooms before driving back to the real world. I am one lucky MF to have this place right on my doorstep!

Jason