I had intended tonight to take you on a trip down Fitzroy Park, as promised some blogs ago. But when I went to put it together I realised that the videos I had taken were really not telling you a lot. So now that my phone has been to the doctor and is feeling a …
Hampstead Heath
Weekend view
Because it is the weekend and because my phone is still feeling somewhat constipated (going in for treatment tomorrow…) here are just few snapshots from a sunny Saturday afternoon. This was on my way down what I regard as my personal path from Hampstead Lane onto the heath. At the bottom just before you emerge …
Back to trees…
Well, more bark than trees really. I saw this rather splendid trunk as I was walking through Kenwood yesterday, looking to me rather like a massive Yale key. This one comes from a few weeks ago in Springett’s Wood – a lady (or maybe just a tree) clad in crushed gun metal grey Chinese silk …
More on Kenwood
Before we leave the azaleas and the handkerchief tree I wanted to show you the tree in all its rather over shadowed architectural glory…. And another view of the lawns in front of the house that roll down to the lake… …and indeed, the lake itself, lying still and dark at the bottom of the …
Kenwood is open!!
In fact, the park (not the house of course) opened yesterday but I was down in Belsize Park. But what excitement. I felt like a child finally being allowed to enter to a secret garden. And how lovely to see those sweeping lawns from the terrace rather than peering through railings and trees. But, the …
World Peace Garden
Just at the bottom of Parliament Hill by Hampstead Heath Station, there is a sliver of steep bank rolling down onto the railway line. Until ten years ago, was an all purpose dump. Bottles, cans, needles, old prams, abandoned supermarket trollies, broken umbrellas, plastic bags – the lot. At that point a local estate agent, …