Ever since Victoria asked a few weeks ago where to find snowdrops, I have been searching for them. I am happy to say that I have found lots in my own garden, but they are still hiding their heads shyly. However these ones that I found on the daffodil covered slope below Kenwood House yesterday, …
Sandy Heath and Bark time
For whatever reasons I have not been paying that much attention recently to the intricate bark patterns that so many of the trees on the heath create, so here are just a couple of the ones I passed yesterday on my way back from our walk on Sandy Heath – below. And some rather fine …
Ice sculptures etched in the mud
As I set off across the Heath at 8.30 yesterday morning it was cold, seriously cold. The sun was cheeringly bright but the air was icy. And so was the mud. But because the mud is so deep and so wet, tiny ice images had formed in every footprint left by Saturday’s visitors. Here is …
World Wetlands Day – Tuesday 2nd February
Fed up with work meetings on Zoom – or looking or a fun break from that home schooling for you and your kids? Join the London Wildlife Trust for their Wetland celebration day on Tuesday. First up is Ian Crump, Biodiversity Field Officer for Thames Water. He will tell us all about freshwater wildlife habitats …
Remains of the snow
Although there are threats of more to come, the only snow that was left on the heath yesterday afternoon were a few muddy lumps of what once were snowmen. So lest we have have no more this year, I thought it would be nice to remember how pretty it looked. This is what I saw …
Boris, Arwen and the cat shute
Most readers of this blog will have met Boris (the ginger one) and Arwen. Possibly even in person at Lawn Road or during one of our summer concerts here in the garden in Highgate. Despite the fact that all of their lives had been spent at Lawn Road, they were both very tolerant of the …