🥶 I’m feeling chilled to the bone today. I’m in the office, but all I want to do is run home, put on my sweatpants and crawl under my duvet. When is Spring again?

📸 An early start this morning! The scene as I left home to make my way to London City Airport for my flight by to Dublin. Beautiful clear blue skies, so I’m hoping for a smooth flight.

📸 The sun did, in fact, eventually make an appearance over London today.

I snapped this as soon as I got in from the office and it reminded me to sit down, take a moment and be grateful. There were lots of items left on my task list, but there’s always time to sit and taken in this view.

There are, in fact, still loads of things remaining on my task list. And there always will be.

But I enjoyed the break by the window.

📸 Just passing through…

📸 What’s that? Nothing. Just a giant rubber dock floating by West India Quay…

📸 One of the new Nature Rising installations in Jubilee Park, Canary Wharf. It’s giving a lot of Doctor Who vibes…

📸 I wasn’t expecting to, but I’ve just spent a very pleasant couple of hours in the sunshine on my balcony.

Writing, planning for the week ahead, and doing some basic admin. All the time enjoying the view, while trying to ignore the noise coming from the building site below.

But seriously. Where was this weather in August?! Anyway, I’m glad I was at home to enjoy it and not stuck in my office. Now to pack away all my work ‘stuff’, and start my weekend.

📸 I stepped out onto the balcony to check out the beautiful sunset. It’s strangely quiet outside, considering it’s London in rush hour. No complaints from me - I’ll take it!

📸 There are blue skies… right above the mass of clouds.

📸 After a day marked by grey skies, torrential rain and some very, very low mood, London has come up trumps and delivered me a beautiful sunset.

I’m currently watching the sky change colour while sipping another honey and lemon infused hot drink, and planning my retirement to bed with a hot whiskey and an iPad.

📸 The new seating area in Middle Dock, Canary Wharf has finally opened.

And yes, it would have been better during the summer, it’s still nice to have another space to sit by the water. I hope it’s the first of a few similar projects in the area. The whole neighbourhood is desperately in need of more greenery and trees.

You can find out more about Eden Dock here.

This is turning into one of those Sundays where I just don’t get dressed at all. I’m showered, have done some housework, and had brunch. But there’s still no good reason to get dressed - I’m not planning on leaving the apartment today.

☕️ Time for brunch. Smoked salmon bagels. 🥯

📸 Amazing! I’m actually sitting in the sunshine on our balcony. So nice of the sun to appear at the same time as the weekend.

📸 Intrigued by the new floating islands in Canary Wharf.

And the new ‘residents’ who’ve take up residence in Middle Dock. Hope the local wildlife leave them be…

⏰ I suppose, compared to 5am, 6:30am is an improvement. But it’s still far too early to be awake on a Saturday morning. At least the weather seems a lot better today. And I nowhere to be anytime soon. So I can enjoy this coffee and catch up with the news.

📸 Another stunning London sunset. No filters or edits. Shot on an iPhone 15 Pro. I could look at this view for the rest of my life and not get bored.

📸 The sun coming through my bedroom window is making my bed extra gay!

📸 After a morning of wind and torrential rain, the sun has reappeared over London. The perfect start to the weekend.

📸 This lady just sailed gracefully past my apartment building, heading into Central London.

🪩 The good news continues! My other half managed to get us tickets to see Kylie when she comes to London next May.

📸 Wow, this beauty just sailed past our apartment, at quite an impressive speed! Now I need to look up what it is and why it’s here.

📸 Looking forward to this being opened to the public soon. The whole project has changed the face of most people’s first experience of Canary Wharf: the space outside the tube station.