The Telegraph’s article Night walks for children: where the wild things are isn’t actually anything to do with Where The Wild Things Are. It’s about a series of ‘night walks’ organised by the London Wetland Centre for urban kids who don’t know what it’s like to sit around a campfire, play with sticks, feed birds and generally just ‘be outside’.

What the organisers don’t realise is that these urban scamps would rather be starting fires, whacking people with sticks, killing birds and staying outside all night until the sun comes up… I’m joking, of course. It’s really a fine idea and, by the sounds of things, the children (and their parents) do get a lot out of it.

Whatever happened to Cub Scouts and Brownies?

Night walks for children: where the wild things are (via The Telegraph)

Plans are underway to build a 40m-wide lunar clock by the River Thames, in time for the London 2012 Olympic Games. The proposed site is East India Dock – around six miles away from the capitol’s current king of time-keeping Big Ben. The clock, named Aluna, will be powered by the river:

“There are three giant concentric rings made from recycled glass – light shines through from the glass in time with the Moon’s cycles so the largest ring shows the lunar phase. The second ring is like the big hand of the clock [and] the third ring – the smallest – is the small hand that tracks the tide as it goes from high tide to low.”

Add it to your ’should visit’ list, along with the Olympic Games itself. (Via: BBC)