Holland Park is an extraordinary place. I don't have any photos to prove this, but trust me - it's true.

I met a friend for a summer's day laze there expecting a Hyde Park on a smaller scale (smaller grassy areas, bonsai trees... tiny pigeons)... but it's nothing like!

If you're familiar with the countryside, as many career following and homesick immigrants are, then you'll be familiar with the concept of a country park. These normally have lots of trees (woodland, i mean... not the odd isolated elm), the odd clearing, picnic tables, a heritage/nature centre of some description (normally with an exhibit on Moles or mining... or some other sort of tunnelling activity), babbling brooks... you know the kind of place I mean, don't you. Back home in Wales mine was called Nant Mill.

Well, Holland Park is just such a place.

Lots of woodland... check! the odd clearing (which all seemed to be cricket pitches!)... check! picnic tables... che... well, they're not so important anyway heritage centre... not as such, but there is a big theatre in the shape of those origami toys you used to make - you know, with the mouth that opened in four directions, and you opened it up and inside were insults. Babbling brooks... does a scummy pond count???

So, not actually that similar upon objective examination. But, here's the killer...

On August the 6th 2005 they are holding a Moth Walk!!!

by Rhys