Some great plants on sale at a fraction of the price you will pay at B and Q. You can also ask what you like about the plants and the knowledgeable folks there can tell you . Really recommend their plants as been buying now for many years .
Unconnected but it’s also World Naked Gardening Day… 
An excellent dog show organised by The Friends of Sir Joseph Hood Memorial Fields and kindly sponsored by Park Vets in Raynes Park . Hundreds of people descended with their varieties of dogs for a fun afternoon with 8 judging classes. This was an enjoyable and fun afternoon and a decent supply of cakes and sandwiches were also available. The Red Velvet cupcakes have to be recommended.
A few photographs to show some of the fun that was had.
Even a few hours of sun is enough to remove some of the water . Vast improvement over yesterday . Not every white dog returns black and boggy.
Some artistic license with these photos. Enjoy 
A great young singer that I have had the pleasure to hear twice now live. He will go a long way. I hope he remembers who took the photograqphs of him!
Wayne Woodward
Wayne Woodward
Wayne Woodward
Wayne Woodward
Wayne Woodward
Wayne Woodward
On Feb 9th 2015 a year ago, Ray Mills, aged 66 years, was arrested on suspicion of killing his wife Linda Mills with knives and a hammer. Both were “known” to the local community in that residents saw them out and about, but both rarely spoke to anyone other than their next door neighbour. On June 8th 2015 Ray Mills died in Wandworth prison however this never was reported until 14th July.
Ray Mills
Ray Mills never came to trial as three court hearings were adjourned as psychiatric reports were not available. Ray Mills thus had been in custody for four months before his death.
The news of his death came four days after coroner Dr Fiona Wilcox called for a formal investigation into the alarming number of deaths at Wandsworth Prison.
During a pre-inquest hearing into the suicides of two men who shared the same cell and hung themselves months apart, she said the inquest could not go on because of various “themes and common issues” of deaths at the UK’s largest prison.
Eleven men died at the category B prison last year – which she said was three times more than would be expected at a prison. It is not clear whether she knew about Mr Mills and whether his death was included in that figure.
The Ministry of Justice has yet to comment on how Mr Mills died in prison. And that is essentially where we are now.
The house remains in the same condition with a small padlock on the door and no signs of any activity or potential sale. One wonders as what might be happening inside of course.
Ray and Linda Mills House where the murder took place
An inquest into his death has been opened at Westminster Coroners’ Court. The case was due to be reviewed by a coroner on December 7. There is nothing reported regarding this inquest.
So one year on, Ray Mills must be presumed to have murdered his wife, however in the absence of a trial details and proof are unlikely to ever be known. The local residents are not so happy that the house remains closed and uncared for, and details of the cause of death of Ray Mills remain unknown, however one suspects that suicide must be one of the more likely possibilities. 
Motspur Park remains a sleepy suburb, half in borough of Merton and the other half in the borough of Kingston. We must await further information.
Mills was awaiting trial at Isleworth Crown Court when he died at Wandsworth Prison on 8 June 2015. An inquest is to take place at Westminster Coroners Court on a date yet to be decided.
Motspur Park Train Station 2016
Rain has been heavy this last few weeks as we all know. January 2016 will no doubt earn some record for the wettest month ever or something similar. A few photographs on my travels of a park flooded and a nearby graveyard equally wet.
Some of the rain has been of biblical proportions. Anyone walking through Motspur Park on their way back from shopping or waking up for a short walk, might be greeted by this joy.
As a football fan I see plenty of occasions each game where the officials get it wrong and sometimes badly so. Having said that players and managers also are culpable of making errors plenty of times in any given game. I do however take a view that officials should be allowed to do their jobs with the expectation that they will not be perfect and certainly should be protected from on-pitch haranguing and demonstrations of anger on the pitch itself. At the recent Met Police v Kingstonian game at half time, immediately before which Met Police had scored direct from a corner, the officials were approached by the Kingstonian manager Tommy Williams clearly angry at some percieved error of judgement, and in a finger waving manner. We all in non-league should have respect for the officials and I personally cannot condone this behaviour. I am sure there are other views out there and it would be interesting to hear them.
Angry Tommy Williams Kingstonian manager confronts the officials at half time. Why is this acceptable?
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