This was intended to be a post about an extremely enjoyable morning hacking holly earlier this week (see below) – but the winter sun on the heath as I walked back from South End Green this afternoon was so lovely that I could not resist including it. And how irrestibile were those mandarin ducks on …
The garden at Hampstead Lane – stage 5 – desert to white out – autumn/winter 2022
Following on…. While the mimosa tree and the shrubs were making themselves at home at the back of the garden I turned my attention to the hot, dry and sunny bank that runs down to the huge fish tank window to the study. We had covered all the new soil with the wonderful coir netting …
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The garden at Hampstead Lane – stage 4 – summer 2022
We left the garden in Hampstead Lane in the early summer of this year at the point when the builders had finally withdrawn themselves and their equipment – and I had planted out the ferns outside my bedroom window. Out beyond the steps, massive bags of soil had arrived and had been spread round the …
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Snow……
My path down to the heath yesterday – the men’s pond looking very bleak and uninviting, snow on some of the willows which, bizarrely, have still not lost their leaves – and a stream hiding beneath the snowy branches. Closer to home, my garden – pond frozen over, Tawny Pipit and the patio furniture all …
The Repair Shop lives in Camden!
I know this is not strictly to do with Hampstead Heath but it is such a great idea and is only five minutes from the heath that I thought I could squeeze it in. The happy coincidence of the very admirable drive to roll back our single use, throw away culture with the runaway success …
41 years in prison without even going on trial….
Forty one years………. How can that even be possible…… Like, I am sure, all of you my daily in box is filled with urgent calls, appeals and newsletters from amazing organisations doing extraordinary work to alleviate the suffering that our cruel and belligerent world inflicts on so many innocent families. While I try to give …