Willows are always the last trees to lose their leaves and the first to come into leaf – and here they are, down by the Men’s Swimming Pond, blowing around on a vigorously windy day. Meanwhile, walking through the wood, the brambles are revving up for an energetic spring colonising the undergrowth. A bit further …
Do you think culling badgers is a good thing?
If you don’t then you might want to support the Wildlife Trusts efforts to ensure that culling stops and is replaced by bovine TB vaccination. There is currently a consultation out there asking for our views on the cull – but you only have 10 days to take part as the consultation closes on March …
Regent’s Park – and a kite
It has, on the whole, been a grey and blustery week so my second indulgent bit of socialising, with a school friend in Regent’s Park, was a bit drear. But I am delighted to say that the hellebores were totally refusing to be discouraged and were looking delightful. Likewise these really vibrant berries/berry-like flowers – …
Grand Union Canal
Those of you who follow our Instagram feed with recognise this. Yes, it really is a car welded onto the back of a barge! Seen yesterday on my first-escape-from-London spring walk along the Grand Union Canal with the lovely Catherine Rose (@catherinerosebloom) – an erstwhile FreeFrom Food Awards winner and FFFA ‘judging cook’ who now …
The Secret Garden’s secret revealed
Long term followers may remember that way back at the beginning of the first lockdown, when I had just moved to Highgate and started this blog, I discovered a ‘secret garden’ on my way down to the heath – but could not find out any more about it. Well now, over a year later, all …
Daffodils
Sunday morning dawned bright and shiny and I was up betimes. Not only up, but up at Kenwood where the daffodil bank is just starting to come into its own. Although somewhat overshadowd by the daffs, lurking at the bottom of a tree was this lovely clutch of croci. Further into the woods I came …