Please Do Not Practise Any Form Of Golf

Mar 172014

Golf

Please Do Not Touch The Walrus

or 1001 Things To Not Do In London

No. 8: practising any form of golf in Russia Dock

photo © Matt Haynes

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by Matt Haynes
Out here, the river’s still allowed to undo its buttons twice a day and slob out across the mud with primordial glee. For one of the Thames’s more discombobulating quirks is that it’s much wider upstream than down, where it’s been artificially banked and trammelled – no one paddles on the beach outside Lambeth Palace any more, not since Mr Bazalgette’s embankments went up in the 1860s and the Archbishop lost his deckchair concession. [read more...]