Parklife: Relax in the Kyoto Garden, Holland Park.

...I don't know what is happening to me and what all this grass and nature is turning me into, but yesterday I was at a Buddhist temple and today I'm sitting in the sunshine (and where did that suddenly appear from!!) in a Japanese Garden.

While the Buddhist temple is designed for contemplation and meditation, Japanese Gardens are miniature landscapes designed for recreation and aesthetic pleasure.

Japanese gardens always have water, either a pond or stream, or, in the dry rock garden, represented by white sand. Rock, sand and gravel are an essential feature of the Japanese garden, also a bridge made of stone or wood (the one here is stone), Stone Lanterns, trees and flowers and of course Koi Carp,

Holland Park is one of London's most fashionable parks in one of London's most affluent areas so unsurprisingly it is well kitted out, along with this garden, it has an Orangery, cricket pitch, tennis courts, one of the best children's play areas you can find and lots of peacocks that I might have to return to blip.

I need to get back to being normal again before I turn into a decent human being, so I will have to find something in Parklife tomorrow to get me back on kilter.

Thanks for the great response to yesterdays blip, I forgot to say yesterday that I was interviewed by a local paper that might do an article on the Monopoly series, if anything comes of it I'll let you know.

Have a LARGE view