Enjoy the view
It was on the 20th August last year that the chaotic Western withdrawal from Kabul returned Afghanistan to the rigid rule of the Taliban, precipitating the flight of millions. Yesterday, all over the UK, The Good Chance Theatre, Afghan Aid and Afghan artists, actors and sports people came together to celebrate the ancient art of …
Fly With Me – Afghan kite festival on Parliament HIllRead More
In due course the autumn of Year 1 arrived, the Virginia creeper turned crimson and COVID restrictions banished all social events to the garden – requiring the acquisition of a firepit. Logs from the local hardware shop were supplemented with some of the ‘trunks’ of ivy that I had cut down which, somewhat startlingly, went …
The garden at Hampstead Lane – autumn 2020 to summer 2021Read More
Actually, it was introduced to us as the Tormented Slope but Tormented Heath has so much more of a ring to it. In fact, charred slope might have been closer, as burnt to a crisp it certainly was. However, the ‘tormented’ had nothing to do with its scorching and everything to do with the tormentil. …
I have been promising for some time to bring those of you interested in gardening up to date with the garden at Hampstead Lane. So for those who love to watch a garden being created, posts over the next few weeks (or possibly months) will take you through its evolution from spring 2020 till now …
Among many other matter of interest in this month’s Heath Hands newsletter was a link to a fascinating City of London project that I really thought more people should know about – their Historic Postcard Project. Their site does not, sadly, explain exactly how the project came about but it does thank historian Michael Hammerson, …
This was the pond in the Hill Garden when we Heath Hands volunteers arrived for our session yesterday morning – a rather unattractive murky mass of algae and pond weed choking the wildlife in the pond and the plants. So it was more weeding for us – but this time pond weeding, a lot more …
