A spot of sunshine after all that rain, and a bit milder too, so I'm off on the bike. I'm not the only one:
Olympic preparations behind the boards to the left. and ahead. The tall straight structure in the centre is new: no idea what it is. Observation platform? For the High Dive?
Docklands towers ahead:
Towards Bow Locks on the run-down part of the river below Stratford High Street, where the Olympic money won't reach:
This part of the river's tidal below Three Mills, so it's unusual to see such a large boat here:
In a few hours that'll be mostly mud, with a trickle of water running past an upturned car chassis that's been there for years.
Down Limehouse Cut:
And a detour to St Anne's Limehouse:
Unmistakeably a Hawksmoor church:
Past the Limehouse basin marina and out onto the Thames at Limehouse Reach:
Back via another Hawksmoor church: St George's-in-the-East, on a grim stretch of The Highway (not that there's a stretch that isn't grim) - what used to be the notorious Ratcliffe Highway:
I've posted about St George's-in-the-East before. It's had a colourful life.
Mick Hartley 
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