Today dawned bright and winter shiny, but Saturday morning was wreathed in a chilly mist. But not for long. By mid morning the mist was lifting, the Cheese toasties and the falafel stands were up and running and the queues stretched right along the terrace in front of Kenwood House. In fact, Kenwood and its …
Hampstead Heath
The tight rope walker
But first some dog walkers – all gathered in the sun waiting for their treats – the dogs that is…. Then our tight rope walker. Well, may be a bit of an exaggeration to call her a tight rope walker as she is less than two foot off the ground on a bouncy elastic ‘rope’ …
Talking the Walk
Longstanding subscribers to this blog may remember that a couple of years go I talked about my cousin Des in the west of Ireland. Des has ‘Inherited Retinal Dystrophy’….. ‘Inherited’, he says, ‘because I told them my mother was affected, and retinal dystrophy because the cells in the retina are dying off. Which, to me, …
The sun does not always shine on Hampstead Heath
In fact, today it was grey and unattractive enough for me to have to talk seriously to myself to drag myself from my desk. But I did, and I discovered that there had been some major pruning done on the rhododendrons on the lawns at the side of Kenwood House. On the other side of …
I did warn you…. More leaves….
I am afraid that the combination of a busy weekend completing my move to the upstairs of my new house, combined with some fairly inclement weather, meant that my visits to the heath were very brief this weekend. But I still managed to find you a few more autumn leaves. Like these ones on the …
Sandy Heath pond
Over the other side of the heath, on Sandy Heath, there is an amazing pond. (For more of the fascinating history of Sandy Heath see this post.) It is large, flat, shallow, surrounded by trees and inhabited by several colonies of ducks – both ‘ordinary’ ducks and the wonderful mandarin ducks. But it is also …