I realised, as I was videoing our walk through the woods yesterday, that whenever I take you for a walk it is always through the woods. But the other joy of Hampstead Heath is its open spaces, so I set off to walk you across some of the rolling parkland. However, just as we nearing …
Hampstead Heath
Time for a walk…..
I realise that, for one reason or another, it is quite some time since we went for a walk – so now you are getting two…. Two really because the first one got truncated by my meeting with a ‘stikosaurus’. (If you want to see the video you will need to click onto the blog …
Death of a copper beech
No, I am happy to say that it is not this one that we met few days ago. It is still lording it over the boating pond. Our fallen tree is in the woods on other side of the heath but, from the size of its branches now spreadeagled over the hillside, it appears to …
Fitzroy Farm
This is Millfield Lane, now a delightfully shady path running up the eastern side of the heath from Highgate West Hill , past the Ladies Bathing Pond, to Kenwood. But, way back, it formed the boundary between the Kenwood Estate and Fitzroy Farm. On the 1940 map above (found on the excellent London Inheritance – …
Flower night
No trees and no walks this evening, but flowers….. I have been gradually collecting images and I need to share! So I claim first place for my flame azalea in its pot in the garden. Not quite as lush as last year (for those who remember the Lawn Road garden blog) but then it got …
Dog pond
Yesterday’s walk which was sparklingly sunny, if with an icy wind, took me down by the boating pond and two keen swimmers – a tan one and a black a white one. The tan swimmer was just on his way back when I arrived and I watched him get out of the pond and then …