The weather forecast promised rain at 11am on Bank Holiday Monday and then for the rest of the day. So, I thought, if I get to Kew as the gates open at 10am, not only will I miss the rain but the bank holiday crowds. Great theory – and I did miss the crowds, but …
Gardens
April garden update
It may not look as though we are making much progress – still builders very much in evidence – but I promise you that we are… The paving is now all laid around the house (still working on the area in front of the garage) and I have even managed to plant some wheelie bin …
Very overdue garden update……
I am deeply embarrassed to see that it is three months since I posted about my garden, Heath Hands or indeed any garden anywhere. I can only blame our Salon Music project which has rather taken over my blog life, whatever about the rest of my life. And it has been winter so most of …
Chagall windows at Tudeley
This stumpy little church buried amongst the Kent apple orchards is All Saints Tudeley – and it is the only church in the world to have had every one of its twelve windows created by the Russian artist Marc Chagall. How come? In the early 1960s the grand house nearby, Somerhill, belonged to Sir Henry …
The magic of my unfolding ferns
About a week ago I peered out of my bedroom window at my fern bank under the slatted aluminium steps running down from the balcony to the garden. What was going on with those ferns? Not a lot it seemed. Then I noticed what looked like three dead brown fern stalks which I must have …
Urban Sketchers at Mile End Park
To my shame I had never heard of either Mile End Park or the Urban Sketchers but, thanks to sketcher extraordinaire, Alison Gardiner who sketched the musicians at the Highgate Society concert a few weeks ago – I was introduced to both on Sunday. The park stretches from the bottom of Victoria Park in Hackney …