After what had been a relatively nice week, weather wise, it was somewhat disappointing to hear that the weather wasn’t going to be so good on Sunday the 5th, as that was the day that had been arranged for a walkabout in Hyde Park for The Zentai Project.
The weather didn’t deter us though, and plans had been made for 4 of us (and my owner, the photographer) to assemble around Speaker’s Corner at 2PM for the meet. Unfortunately, one of the group were running slightly late, so 3 of us met up and wandered down to the toilet’s I’d used to change when I came here for the Morph Meet.
After a bit of a wait, we all managed to get changed (it was quite busy and there were only two cubicles!), we all congregated outside the toilets and set off around the park. The weather was very lightly drizzling on and off, and the park didn’t seem to be quite as busy as we’d expected it to be – what with the weather not being as nice etc.
Due to the rather low numbers of people around the park, there wasn’t as much chance of audience reactions that we usually get, unfortunately. However, there were a few notable incidents in the walk…
A police van with a rather large number of officers in the back was driving round patrolling the park and stopped a bit further ahead of us. As we approached the van, one of the officers jumped out the back, and while we were expecting a comment to be made (like no hoods for example) all he did was make a rather bizarre passing comment, get back in and drive off. At least we must have made them smile which is what it’s all about.
My owner, being dressed normally, commented as we walked over a bridge to cross the serpentine, that a number of cars, including another police car, seemed to be pointing at us and looking amused by the 3 of us out and about… so at least they seemed happy as well!
We also met a couple of tourists just after crossing the bridge, who wanted pictures taken with us… and then started asking us for London Travel Advice – where’s the nearest tube station etc.
We headed to the Princess Diana memorial fountain, and were approached by someone asking the common question of “why are you doing this?”, and we responded in the usual way of “for fun” he persistently kept asking why we were doing this… as if he couldn’t quite grasp the concept.
Shortly after we left the memorial fountain, we met up with Pippin and did some posed pictures on a park bench while working out what to do. The consensus was to finish wandering round the Serpentine, and head back to the toilets to get changed. As we did this, we got stopped by a couple of tourist groups wanting pictures with us, which we were happy to oblige and we stopped for a couple more group photos for the website too.
We headed back to the toilets, decided it was time to get changed, and just after we did – it started to rain – really rather heavily; more by luck than judgement that we’d got changed. We’d been walking for about 90 minutes by this point, so we headed up to KFC for some drinks, a debrief and to review some of the pictures. We then headed off up to Heros…. but more on that in a different blog post.
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