reen Park is as busy as I ever remember it to be, pre-Covid. There are a few people wearing masks, but it’s mostly tourists travelling to or from their London Guide destinations of the Houses of Parliament or Buckingham Palace. My old art college friend has brought along her dog, Ginger, though I’ve been warned, she loves animals and Green Park is full of them, so she’s staying on a lead. Sure enough, there are all manner of wildlife to be seen: dogs certainly, squirrels (lots of them) but horses care of the mounted police, pigeons of course (lots of them), pelicans (yes, really) but even more unexpectedly parrots, or more specifically parakeets, for the former is a sub-species of the later. My friend tells me they allegedly escaped a film set years ago and have made the London park their home ever since, brought to the city for the set of
