Took this photo earlier while walking Elodie on the Thames at Chiswick, I cycle down there with her these days to give her a little walk when tide is out ... (short thread folllows)

So, that little bump in the river in the foreground?

There are actually quite a few of them there.

And some stepping stones over the mud.

So I first noticed them a couple of weeks ago ... well, really, I'd had no reason to walk down the steps onto the river when tide was out before.

And after a while, this guy turns up and starts adding to one of the piles. So, from very safe social distance of about 20 metres, I had a chat with him.

Turns out, he has made them all. I said they reminded me of Neolithic barrows ... burial chambers ... and yeah, he understood why I would think that. But he explained to me what he was doing.

So all the material he uses to make these little mounds on the foreshore is man-made ... bricks etc he finds there. And part of the reason he does it is to give back to nature ... he pointed me to couple of places where pools now form after tide goes out, didn't happen before.

It's an eccentric thing to be doing, maybe. But I think it's a wonderful thing.

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