Friends of Alexandra Park

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The Friends of Alexandra Park is a voluntary group that promotes the use of the Alexandra Park in North London, encourages the conservation of its wildlife and protects the Park from unwanted development.

A very pleasant walk along the former the Edgware, Highgate and London Railway now the longest linear nature reserve in London, and then on to Alexandra Palace through Highgate Woods. The first half was seeing an area I’d lived in as a student from a new angle.

Large letters with ALLYPALLY Behind grey skies and treesFormer railway like seen through U shaped structure on a bridge Platforms on a former railway line Entrance to Highgate Woods which is a massive kissing gate

We all know ‘one for sorrow, two for joy, three for a girl, four for a boy’ when applied to magpies but do you know the rhyme for ALL other corvids? Well, I do, and I’m very chuffed at having seen three in Alexandra Park. One for coffee, two for tea, three for a beer, four for a wee. Cheers! 🍺

Three crows or rooks or ravens or some shit like that. I don’t know, and Bill Oddie is no longer around to ask.