[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-hiking-thames-marshes-or-why-you-shouldnt-pop-blackberries-in-your-mouth-without-looking-first":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/erith_blackberry2-ce673afde4.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nAw man, isn't this the cutest little snail you ever saw?\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/erith_blackberry-72ff898275.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nStuart's finished hiking the \u003Ca href=\"http://www.walklondon.org.uk/route.asp?R=1\">Capital Ring\u003C/a> around London, so he took me along on the first leg of the \u003Ca href=\"http://www.walklondon.org.uk/route.asp?R=5\">London LOOP\u003C/a> (which stands for London Outer Orbital Path). Walking through Crayford Marshes, we hit every kind of weather you can imagine, short of hurricanes. The cloud display was impressive, it was a proper English-style bank holiday kind of outing.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/erith_brolly-bb80d9c0bb.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003C!--more Click here for more photos under the cut...-->\\r\nA lot of the landscape was fairly industrial, but I'm rather partial to dockland rubble. Here a tractor and a \u003Ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillman_Imp\">Hillman Imp\u003C/a> pose dramatically in front of the Dartford Crossing (a huge bridge over the Thames, east of central London).\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/dartford_river_crossing-2466fc5a3b.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/erith_dock-73fd5f10b0.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/erith_sailingclub-69cf440758.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nI never really get away from children's books. Here's an odd sign I saw in a particularly scrappy bit of the docklands. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/erith_wardrobe-704a33f957.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nThe Narnia sign sat just over these hoardings:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/erith_signs-0922f82b12.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nI love the textures you get on old containers when they get a bit weather-beaten.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/erith_containers-43d51c1638.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/erith_container2-9b37807d9b.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nHere's the sky over the \u003Ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Darent\">River Darent\u003C/a>, just before the heavens opened. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/erith_clouds-ea5bb968bc.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nThank goodness for ponchos.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/erith_sarahstuart-d632944ccd.jpg\">","2011-08-27T20:53:00.000Z","hiking-thames-marshes-or-why-you-shouldnt-pop-blackberries-in-your-mouth-without-looking-first",[],"hiking thames marshes, or why you shouldn't pop blackberries in your mouth without looking first",1776628720603]