As you will have gathered, the last few days have been a bit hectic, what with the launch of the new FreeFrom Food Awards website and the opening of the 2021 awards. (I am delighted to say that we had had eight entries by the end of day one!) So I fear that I have …
Slow walk around the boating pond
A reader told me the other day how much she enjoyed my/our walks – which caused me to have a little think about them. And I realised that my standard procedure was to march you, relatively briskly, through the woods and over the open heath focusing on the trees, the grasses, the undergrowth and the …
Walking, walking, walking….
I realise that, between this and that, I have not taken you for a walk for quite a long time, so, to make up, here are three of my favourite short walks. Walk 1. Down my ‘private path’ down past Athlone House gardens onto the heathland which runs between me in Highgate and Kenwood House. …
Bark fest
I am delighted to say that I have a fellow-finder-of-faces in trees – who has just sent me this image of wise old tree in (I am pretty sure) Primrose Hill. And to accompany it, this wonderful knobble nurturing new growth. Which made me have a quick look in my image store to see what …
Where have the cygnets gone?….
A couple of days ago my swan-follower reader sent me a picture of the family on Hampstead Pond 1. All present and correct. (Cygnet number 5 was making a break over at the edge of the pond.) But yesterday, on the Boating Pond, there were just the parents….. The buzz is that the cygnets are …
Another casualty…..
Do you remember this fine L-shaped tree? I noticed it some months ago and was so impressed by the perfect symmetry of its fall. Well, sadly, I fear that the upright of the L has fallen victim to the gales of the last ten days. I am not sure when it happened but the leaves …