The amazing summer of 2022

The summer of 2022 has broken many records, the highest temperature ever recorded (over 40 degrees) , the joint hottest since records began in 1884 (the other was 2018) and the driest since 1976. Clearly a worry for those that track these things and for farmers in particular, but from a photographic standpoint, something that I felt I must record and where ever I went, London resembled the savannah rather than our green and pleasant land.

This was Tooting Common

This was Barnes Green, where the evidence of leaves everywhere was witness for all of the terrible stress that our trees were under

The lovely oak tree on Barnes Green

This was Chiswick House

Bushy Park

Bushy Park

Barnes Common

Barnes Common

Kensington Gardens

Richmond Park

Clapham Common

Wimbledon Common

So for most people, this summer it was a case of head for the shade and the nearest ice-cream van - here on Wandsworth Common