It has been such a miserable soggy few days that I thought a gentle wander through the woods with some late summer bird song might just raise the spirits.
Hampstead Heath
WildWooders blackberry jam
This is the somewhat sad playground on the Hampstead Heath Extension, sparsely populated both with equipment and with children. No fun at all for the kids who live on either side of the Extension – like Olivia. So Olivia decided that she was going to do something about it. Like pick the blackberries that grew …
Random autumnal images
These two collections of hips are to be found just before you reach my path up to Hampstead Lane. I think they are both wild roses, but I they look rather different. Or maybe the bottom one is just not as healthy? Will Emma be able to tell us?….. A little further up toward the …
Breakfast at Kenwood
Welcome to our new Walks on Hampstead Heath blog. Dedicated to our walks on the heath but also to gardens (both mine and others) and with the occasional guest appearance from Boris and Arwen – seen here fraternising on our scaffolding balcony. When I moved to Highgate back in February, one of the treats I …
More slow watching…..
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 …