As promised, I am afraid that I am now going to bore you rigid with a detailed account of the tree works that took place in the garden yesterday. They do not really look that dramatic but – they do mark the start of the works on Hampstead Lane, which is quite exciting as far …
Hampstead Heath
Action on the heath….
(If you want to see the video you will need to click onto the blog as the email notification does not include the video.) As you can see, swan mum has moved on to the next stage in the annual cycle and now has a brood of fluffy cygnets to look after – and, be …
Parliament Hill – in happier times…
I think this could have been this time last year – long before ‘social distancing’ had been invented. And even these dog walkers just breasting the hill were exercising their dogs in March when COVID was still something that the Chinese were worrying about – not us… This short video was taken from the bench …
Copper beech
Tonight’s blog is going to be devoted to just one tree – but it is such a magnificent tree that it definitely deserves a blog all to itself. It sits on the top of its hill looking down on the heath unrolling below it – a huge translucent rusty copper tent under which to shelter …
Springetts Wood
The highest point of Hampstead Heath – what used several centuries ago to be open heathland but is now heavily wooded – runs along a ridge running from east to West with Hampstead on the west side and Highgate on the east. In the middle is Kenwood House and grounds, and The Elms, the home …
Random
Sun and lowering clouds over the garden in Hampstead Lane this afternoon. I did nip out between the downpours – one of hailstones as big as marbles! – but only got to the borders of Kenwood. Here is the house, bleached in a brief moment of sun seen through the spreading trees. On the way …