I realise that, between this and that, I have not taken you for a walk for quite a long time, so, to make up, here are three of my favourite short walks. Walk 1. Down my ‘private path’ down past Athlone House gardens onto the heathland which runs between me in Highgate and Kenwood House. …
Hampstead Heath
Bark fest
I am delighted to say that I have a fellow-finder-of-faces in trees – who has just sent me this image of wise old tree in (I am pretty sure) Primrose Hill. And to accompany it, this wonderful knobble nurturing new growth. Which made me have a quick look in my image store to see what …
Where have the cygnets gone?….
A couple of days ago my swan-follower reader sent me a picture of the family on Hampstead Pond 1. All present and correct. (Cygnet number 5 was making a break over at the edge of the pond.) But yesterday, on the Boating Pond, there were just the parents….. The buzz is that the cygnets are …
Another casualty…..
Do you remember this fine L-shaped tree? I noticed it some months ago and was so impressed by the perfect symmetry of its fall. Well, sadly, I fear that the upright of the L has fallen victim to the gales of the last ten days. I am not sure when it happened but the leaves …
And yet more music on the heath….
I headed home yesterday afternoon through the wood to a chorus – no a cacophony – of parakeets and crows. I am sure someone will berate me for being unappreciative but, oh where are the tuneful trills of spring?… Anyhow, emerging from the woods I thought I heard someone singing in the distance, so I …
Queen’s Wood oaks win temporary reprieve
Back in July I wrote about the oaks in Queen Wood that were under threat because an insurance company doesn’t want to pay the costs of underpinning the property which they say is threatened by the trees. Well, according to their Change.org petition they have won a brief reprieve: