The Regent’s Canal is 200 years old this year – or at least, part of it is. The birthday celebrations at Little Venice in August marked the bicentenary of the stretch from Paddington to Camden.

You will have noticed that the AA’s stalwart volunteer gardeners have finally cleared the southeast corner of the perimeter border.

We’ve had more than our fair share of Oscar moments this year. Led by the indefatigable Gordon McArthur and garden designer Paul Thompson, the Arlington Association’s work greening the neighbourhood has earned us a long list of awards and prizes.

We’ve been receiving puzzling reports of strange egg sightings. Large eggs have been discovered, often half-buried, in gardens and tree pits.

Arthur Casbolt was born in 1922 in 25 Arlington Square. Three families lived in the house, and the Casbolts occupied the two rooms on the top floor.

Arlington Square was once again invited to take part in London’s Open Garden Squares Weekend (June 18–19) along with more than 200 other unique metropolitan squares and green spaces.

You may have noticed a painter working at her easel in Arlington Square in late spring.

We are grateful to Harry of Arlington Square for lending us the splendid photograph above: it shows St Philip’s Church, on the corner of Linton Street and Arlington Square, in 1912 or thereabouts.