On Sunday I made an exciting expedition Woodberry Wetlands, one of two reservoirs to be found just north east of Finsbury Park and now a wildlife park managed by the London Wildlife Trust. Hampstead Heath is wonderful, but so nice to venture further afield just occasionally. The area was originally field and meadow land, running …
Hampstead Heath
Breakfast?……
When I moved to Hampstead Lane one of excitements was the thought that, should I feel so inclined, I could walk 8 minutes down the road to the lovely Kenwood café for breakfast. But I arrived in February to discover that the café was closed for refurbishment and, about the time that it was due …
Save the oaks in Queen’s Wood threatened by an insurance claim
These are not our Hampstead Heath trees but they are just over the brow of the hill in Queen’s Wood. But four of the Queen’s Wood mature oaks are threatened with destruction because an insurance company doesn’t want to pay the costs of underpinning the property which they say is threatened by the trees. There …
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Ducks – and more bees…
I seem to have become rather obsessed by bees – or is it just that we are in high bee season? Anyhow, here is one at work on some rather fine Queen Anne’s lace down by the Boating pond – with some rather noisy accompaniment. Isn’t the curled up green bud at the end of …
Kitchen garden revisited
The sun was not exactly splitting the stones yesterday but it was a bit brighter so I thought I would pop into the Kenwood Kitchen Garden to see if anything had changed from my last visit some weeks ago. Well, for one, in the long, wide hedge that divides the upper lawn from the lower …
Bring back the sun……
A dreary June has now turned into a soggy and grey July. So to remind us of what a hot sunny day was like, here is a brief video I took in search of running water round Kenwood lake when we had our last two day heatwave. (If you want to see the videos you …