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squirmelia) wrote2025-06-24 08:47 pm
squirmelia) wrote2025-06-24 08:47 pm
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Mudlarking - 22 - Kylie & spear fishing
My plans for mudlarking on Saturday were thwarted when all my trains were cancelled. It took me three hours to get to Lincoln’s Inn Fields where I was going for a picnic so I didn't have time to mudlark as well.
On Sunday, I broke a bowl, dropped it on the floor and it smashed, and I held up a triangular sherd and wondered whether people would find the sherd from my bowl in the future, with a peri-peri flavour. I wondered if I should take it to the foreshore.
On the Sunday though, the trains were running again, so I headed to Blackfriars. The blue Croc was still there that I saw on Friday. I walked along a wooden plank that had washed up. It was a hot day but at that time I was the only one on the foreshore.
I picked up more small black tiles, but one had the corner damaged.
I heard music from a busker by the station.
I was no longer feeling how I used to when I started mudlarking, no feeling of Flow, no clearing of the mind. I wondered if I'd grown bored of it and should play more Ingress.
I seem to have trained my eyes to spot pottery sherds but I would like to find other things more as I have a lot of sherds now.
I found a cork and when I got it home I realised it said “Kylie Minogue” on it. I hadn't realised Kylie Minogue wine existed and you can buy it at Sainsbury's.
I found a red piece that could be a bit of brick or tile that looks like it says “Taylor” on it.
I found some glass that looked like it said “ord” on it. Ordinary?
I found a sherd that says “don” and presumably once said “London”.
--
I headed to Wapping after that, as the tide got lower.
While I had been to the Prospect of Whitby (the Pelican Stairs) before I hadn't been to the other bit of Wapping - accessed through the New Crane Stairs.
The steps there were missing at the bottom, replaced with boulders, so I used the green slimy wall for balance.
I thought I was alone there on the foreshore until I noticed the people fishing, with their lines cutting off part of the shore. I walked in the opposite direction and walked along the foreshore to Wapping Pier.
I saw Canada Geese and goslings lying on the foreshore.
I passed one set of stairs that had been removed - Wapping Dock Stairs. There were a few concrete steps to start with but the metal stairs that were once there were no longer.
King Henry's Stairs at Execution Dock, near to Wapping Pier were actually just a metal ladder.
I walked back to the New Crane Stairs.
I saw a duck with five ducklings following, moving fast across the foreshore.
I saw a man in the Thames, water up to his shorts, spear fishing.
I enjoyed Wapping as it was somewhere new - maybe that was the problem earlier, lack of novelty at Blackfriars. It also felt vast and quieter without all the tourists walking past.
I found a lot of pottery sherds in Wapping - I am collecting blue and white ones currently for a mosaic, but there was one that looked almost like a nose, one with a letter ‘E’ and various pieces with patterns I haven't seen before. There was also some glass that had degraded and looked so pretty.
On Sunday, I broke a bowl, dropped it on the floor and it smashed, and I held up a triangular sherd and wondered whether people would find the sherd from my bowl in the future, with a peri-peri flavour. I wondered if I should take it to the foreshore.
On the Sunday though, the trains were running again, so I headed to Blackfriars. The blue Croc was still there that I saw on Friday. I walked along a wooden plank that had washed up. It was a hot day but at that time I was the only one on the foreshore.
I picked up more small black tiles, but one had the corner damaged.
I heard music from a busker by the station.
I was no longer feeling how I used to when I started mudlarking, no feeling of Flow, no clearing of the mind. I wondered if I'd grown bored of it and should play more Ingress.
I seem to have trained my eyes to spot pottery sherds but I would like to find other things more as I have a lot of sherds now.
I found a cork and when I got it home I realised it said “Kylie Minogue” on it. I hadn't realised Kylie Minogue wine existed and you can buy it at Sainsbury's.
I found a red piece that could be a bit of brick or tile that looks like it says “Taylor” on it.
I found some glass that looked like it said “ord” on it. Ordinary?
I found a sherd that says “don” and presumably once said “London”.
--
I headed to Wapping after that, as the tide got lower.
While I had been to the Prospect of Whitby (the Pelican Stairs) before I hadn't been to the other bit of Wapping - accessed through the New Crane Stairs.
The steps there were missing at the bottom, replaced with boulders, so I used the green slimy wall for balance.
I thought I was alone there on the foreshore until I noticed the people fishing, with their lines cutting off part of the shore. I walked in the opposite direction and walked along the foreshore to Wapping Pier.
I saw Canada Geese and goslings lying on the foreshore.
I passed one set of stairs that had been removed - Wapping Dock Stairs. There were a few concrete steps to start with but the metal stairs that were once there were no longer.
King Henry's Stairs at Execution Dock, near to Wapping Pier were actually just a metal ladder.
I walked back to the New Crane Stairs.
I saw a duck with five ducklings following, moving fast across the foreshore.
I saw a man in the Thames, water up to his shorts, spear fishing.
I enjoyed Wapping as it was somewhere new - maybe that was the problem earlier, lack of novelty at Blackfriars. It also felt vast and quieter without all the tourists walking past.
I found a lot of pottery sherds in Wapping - I am collecting blue and white ones currently for a mosaic, but there was one that looked almost like a nose, one with a letter ‘E’ and various pieces with patterns I haven't seen before. There was also some glass that had degraded and looked so pretty.
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