Dear LPG

I saw your invitation to send pictures that mean something (►►►) and thought that this one would fit the bill.  It is a scene that so many people see and don’t really notice.  I took it in the corridor leading to Oak ward, which is on the 6^th floor of the Riverside Building at Lewisham Hospital. 

I was a regular visitor in the spring of this year when a very ill relative of mine spent a lot of time there, and to me it shows a really calm scene from the top of the hospital and those three very tall blocks of flats from a really peaceful point of view. 

There were times that I left the hospital feeling really down because of the patient that I had visited, and times when we had had a chat which left me feeling very positive after my visit, but the view that I would see through the corridor window as I returned to the lift never altered regardless of how I felt when I saw it, although the time of day and weather did make a difference.  

It reminded me that however quickly each individual’s mood changes, the big bad world still looks the same, and to me it nearly looks like a detailed scale-model of the real thing.  While the blocks of flats have been there for as long as I can remember, I often think that I would worry about living quite as high as some of the residents must.  Whatever else goes through my head each time I glance at it, I think that the scene is quite magnificent.   As a Christian, every time I see the sight, I feel the need to say, ‘Thank you God, amen’.

JA, Lewisham.