The one get-out clause from self isolation from COVID-19 seems to be ‘taking healthy exercise’. So, now that I am only a very short stone’s throw from Hampstead Heath, I intend to take full advantage so that I can deliver a daily diet of cheering , hopefully sun-filled, images…. So for today – my all …
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Hampstead Heath in the sun
The media output at 8am this morning was filled with doom and gloom – but – the sun was shining for the first time in days. And, in my new residence, I genuinely am only 4 minutes walk from Hampstead Heath. How was I to resist. So, hopefully to cheer your morning…. A bank of …
Hampstead Heath in the winter sun
One of the upper ponds yesterday afternoon on Hampstead Heath – the sunlit golden swathe of trees on the far side of the lake reflected in the pale cobalt blue of the lake – which in turn reflects the baby blue of the sky. In the foreground, a blackened and gnarled tree stump, a few …
Autumn leaves
Hampstead Heath yesterday…… and here are those sunshine yellow leaves close up. And flame leaves drooping over one of the ponds… and for the autumn in the garden see the garden pages.
Dry stone walling
Any of you who watched Gentleman Jack on the BBC earlier in the year will already know Shibden Hall, Anne Listers’ ancestral home near Halifax where much of the series was filmed. (Very fine formal garden they have there too, for those of you who are interested…) I went to visit it a few weeks ago …
Garden update
I am embarrassed that it is two months since I did a garden update….. so here we go – on a stunning August afternoon. Read on…