More than preoccupied
with overload at work and Szlachetna Paczka, hence not feeling like
writing up a lofty essay. Instead – some snaps from the neighbourhood, taken on
my way to my parents and back, by bike, yesterday.
The old
house (being a remnant of the bygone Moczydło village), whose dwellers
used a portable toilet put up on a backyard, is no longer inhabited. The plot
of land parallel to ul. Moczydłowska most likely has been sold. I wonder
if the buyer will be intent to erect here a row of terraced houses, each priced
at zillions.
Ul.
Leśna connecting ul.
Moczydłowska to ul. Puławska is nearly empty. Despite warm, autumnal
weather (+7C today, but windy), the forest was anything, but full of walkers, cyclists,
nor runners.
Birch trees
are the last to shed leaves. The one snapped still retained leftovers of its
yellow dressing. If winds continue to blow as strongly as today, by the end of
the first decade of December all leaves will be on the ground.
Fancy buying
a Christmas Tree? In several spots you can already do so. I am not fond of
starting celebrations early and prefer to kick off the festive season as the
old tradition proscribes, i.e. on 24 December. People with small children,
however, tend to decorate the Christmas trees in early December to create the
atmosphere indoors. Outdoors it does not feel like Christmas at all. Judging by
long-term forecasts, December 2025 stands a chance to the warmest since records
began in Warsaw.
Close to my
parents’ house, in Mysiadło, I come across a little flooding which makes
ul. Łabędzia impassable for motor vehicles. It brings to mind the effect
of downpours in early June 2010 when this very spot was under water too.
The street
is waterlogged, I make it by bike, but water slightly plays havoc with brakes. This looks like waterworks breakdown. Fortunately, at my parents’ the
water supply was not cut off.
On my way
home I stopped over to snap the intersection of ul. Puławska
and ul. Jagielska being rebuilt. Local newspapers say ul.
Jagielska will be connected to the Piaseczno-bound lanes of ul. Puławska
and a new set of traffic lights will be put up here. Not feeling sorry for drivers
wasting their lives in traffic jams here.
Not a new
post in a week, as Szlachetna Paczka final weekend is due.
